12. Lease of the Iron Store on the Western side of the Queen-street Wharf, for a period of three years, commencing 1st January, 1869.

13. Leases for a period of three years, of Harbour Endowment Allotments, situated upon the Queen-street Wharf and Breakwater Road, Commercial Bay. Particulars respecting these allotments can be obtained upon application to the Waste Lands Commissioner. An Exhibition Plan may be seen at the Auctioneers’, on and after Monday, the 14th instant.

[From New Zealand Gazette of the 23rd Nov., No. 66.]

G. F. BOWEN, GOVERNOR.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of November, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by the tenth section of “The Marine Act, 1867,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make bye-laws and regulations for regulating the management of piers, jetties, wharves, and docks, and the general regulation of the traffic on the same, and for regulating all other matters relating to the protection of life and property of passengers and others, and by such bye-laws or regulations to impose any penalty, not exceeding fifty pounds, for the breach, or neglect, or disobedience of the same, or any of them:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth thereby make the following regulations and bye-laws for the purposes aforesaid.

REGULATIONS AND BYE-LAWS.

1. The Master, or if there be no Master the person in charge of every vessel, whether steamer or sailing vessel, being or lying alongside of any piers jetty or wharf in the Colony, and which vessel shall have passengers on board, or be engaged in carrying passengers, or in which, if a steamer, passengers may by law be carried, shall keep for the use of passengers, or persons coming from or going on board such vessel, a proper and secure gangway, with double side-rails, or stanchions with ropes rove taut through the same, the top rail or rope being not less than three feet three inches high, and shall cause such gangway to be securely fixed and to extend from one portion of the vessel’s deck or side-rail to the pier, jetty, or wharf, with a good solid bearing at each end, and to be so kept fixed so long as such vessel shall be alongside such wharf, pier, or jetty.

2. In the event of the outer end of any such gangway resting on the vessel’s side-rail, the Master, or if there be no Master the person in charge of any such vessel, shall keep substantial steps fixed to lead from the end of the gangway to the vessel’s deck.

3. In cases in which by the preceding regulations it is required that a vessel shall have a gangway fixed, the Master, or if there be no Master the person in charge of such vessel, shall keep a proper bright light fixed over such gangway from sunset to sunrise in such a manner as to light the whole length of it properly, and shall keep such light burning bright and clear from sunset till sunrise, so long as the vessel remains alongside any pier, wharf, or jetty.

4. Any Master, or the person in charge of any vessel when there is no Master thereof, who shall be convicted of any breach, neglect, or disobedience of any of the foregoing regulations or bye-laws, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

"FOSTER GORING,
Clerk to the Executive Council."

[From New Zealand Gazette of the 19th November, No. 65.]

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

HYDRA ROCK, CAPE SAUNDERS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, November 5th, 1868.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 15th of September last the ’Hydra’ struck, and received considerable damage, in the vicinity of Cape Saunders. She was drawing eighteen feet, and it was nearly low-water springs at the time of the accident. Captain Rich, of the ’Hydra,’ gives the following as the bearings of the place where she struck:—

Cape Saunders - S. by W.½W.

Funnel of ’Victory’ (wreck in Wickliffe Bay) - S.W. by W.½W.

Woman’s Head (most easterly land near Tairoa Head) - N.W.½N.

Captain Tall, of the s.s. ’Tairoa,’ reports having seen a "break" on very similar bearings, in August last, and others have since stated that they knew of a danger in that locality; its exact position has not however been as yet determined, and mariners are warned to exercise great caution when near the position indicated by the bearings, and are also requested to forward to this office any information likely to aid in determining the true position of the rock.

So far as present information is to be depended on, a vessel will be clear inside the most westerly reported position of the danger so long as "Woman’s" or "East Head" is shut in by Remarkable Cliff Point, and will be clear outside the most easterly reported position so long as "East Head" is brought nothing to the north of N.W.½W.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

ERRATUM.

IN Gazette, No. 62, 30th November, 1868, page 557, Auckland Harbour Revised Code of Signals, right hand column, 4th line; for "two yellow and blue swallow-tail flags" read "two yellow and red swallow-tail flags."