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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 300, 18 May 1889, Page 2

Triple expansion engines have taken centplate hold of the marina engineering faculty at home. The latest is that the. doubleturret ship Thunderer and the Devastation, a vessel of the same class, are to be fitted with triple expansion engines from the Royal Yard and the Portsmouth Yard. It takes a good deal of persuasion to get the Admiralty to take a new departure, and perhaps rightly so, The triple expansion, however, has advantages irresistible. On May 6, at Port Adelaide, a youth named Alfred Bryant, was assisting in Burton and Shorney’s storeroom to raise a large cask of crockery weighing half a ton, to an upper story. The cask was hauled ae far as the hatchway, when the cling broke, and the "v eask fell a distance of 20 feet on top of deceased, crushing his head to atoms. Mr Shorney also fell with the cask, coming down on top of it. He was severly shaken. Several new flax mills are io course ot erection at Te ▲rohs. Mails for Samoa, Tongs, *nd Tahiti Slow ibis evening at 7.30.