It fa remarkable that so soon after the opening of the Naval dock in Hongkong, he dock constructed by Meaare, Pieter field & Swire should also be so far completed that on Saturday last, just ace week after the oper of the Na dock, it for the first time was filled with water, This undertaking, as is known, is the result of privat prise, and, with the adjacent buildings, machinery, when finally completed, 1 be one of the moat complete plants for handling ships aod even building the Far Exst. It is, I believe, the largest dock in the Far capable of taking i CENT wens, oF any that is for a long time to com the coping in. 787 feet long, and, on the keel blocks, is 750 foot. Ita width at entrance at high water is eighty-ight foot, and at the threshold eighty-two feot. The dock is built of cement concrete, and the facing is of Hongkong The dock is also provided 8 special sliding caisson, which, wi dock
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