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cases of accident actually happening to the vessels
or machinery, or other unforeseen impediment oc-
curring.
43. Steamers about to pass any dredging machine
at work in any river, or channel, or any licensed
ferry, or public work in progress, must slow their
engines to less than half speed for at least one
hundred yards before arriving abreast of the dredge,
ferry, or work.
44. All persons transgressing any of the foregoing
Miscellaneous Rules, shall, for each offence, be liable
to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

SIGNALS AT THE FLAGSTAFF.
OTAGO HEADS.
Blue Peter—Keep to sea, the bar is not fit to take.
Red Flag—Take the bar, there is no danger.
Blue, with White St. Andrew's Cross—Ebb tide.
White Flag, half-mast high—First quarter flood.
White Flag, at the mast-head—Second quarter flood.
Red Flag, half-mast high—Third quarter flood.
Red Flag, at the mast-head—Last quarter flood.

The following Signals are in use at the Port:—
Pilot—The Union Jack at the fore.
Customs' Boat—The Union Jack at the peak.
Gunpowder on Board—The Union Jack at the main.
Medical Assistance—The Union Jack over the Ensign
at the peak.
Government Emigrants on Board—Ensign at the
mizen mast-head.
Mails on Board—White Flag at the fore.
Boarding Officer—Blue flag at the main.
Clearing Officer—White Flag at the main.
Police—The Ensign at the main.
Ditto at night—Two lights vertical at the peak,
having five feet between the two.

TIDE SIGNALS FOR THE UPPER
HARBOUR.
Marryat's Numerals will be hoisted on the East
yard-arm at the Flagstaff, Port Chalmers, to denote
the height of the tide during the flood in the cross-
channel.

WARRANT
Appointing George Frederick Swainson, Esquire, of
Wellington, a Commissioner under the “Intestate
Natives Succession Act, 1861.”

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable
Order of the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the “Intestate Natives Succession
Act, 1861,” it is enacted that in case any
person of the Native Race shall die or shall have
died seized or entitled at law or in equity for an
estate in fee simple in possession of land held under
title derived from the Crown, and without having
made a valid disposal of such land by will, the
Governor shall, upon the application of any person
claiming to be interested in such land, cause an
enquiry, as hereinafter more particularly described,
to be made by a Commissioner (to be appointed in
that behalf by Warrant under the Governor's hand):
And whereas Paul Stone, a person of the Native
Race, died on or about the first day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, well entitled
to two pieces of land in the Province of Wellington,
described in the Schedule hereto, for which crown
grants to him in fee simple ought to have been issued
in his life time but were not so issued, and whereas
it is expedient that enquiry should be made who are
the persons respectively entitled to the said pieces of
land:
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, in pursuance
of the power and authority for this purpose given to
me by the said Act, do hereby appoint

GEORGE FREDERICK SWAINSON, Esquire,
of Wellington, to be a Commissioner under the said
Act, with the powers and duties comprised in and
imposed by the said Act, in reference to the said
pieces of land and each of them.

Given under my hand, at Government House,
at Auckland, in the Colony of New
Zealand, this second day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
four.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM Fox.

SCHEDULE.
WAIRARAPA DISTRICT.
Opaki Block, Section No. 39.—44 Acres.
Bounded towards the North East by the Ruama-
hanga River; towards the South East and South
West by crown land, two thousand seven hundred
(2,700) links, and one thousand seven hundred
(1,700) links respectively; and towards the North
West by Section No. 40, two thousand six hundred
(2,600) links.

WAIRARAPA DISTRICT.
Opaki Block, Section No. 34.—210 Acres.
Bounded towards the North East by Section No.
33, three thousand (3000) links; towards the South
East by Section No. 33, by Crown land, and by
Section No. 10, seven thousand (7000) links; towards
the South West by Section No. 10 and by Crown
land, three thousand (3000) links; and towards the
North West by Crown land, and by Section No. 35,
seven thousand (7000) links.

Charles Hovell, Esquire, resigned as Coroner for
Howick.

Attorney General's Office,
Auckland, 6th September, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
CHARLES HOVELL, Esquire,
of his appointment as Coroner for the District of
Howick.

FREDERICK WHITAKER.

C. Hovell, Esq., appointed Coroner within the Province
of Auckland.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 6th September, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHARLES HOVELL, Esq.,
of Cambridge (Waikato), in the Province of Auck-
land, to be a Coroner having jurisdiction within the
said Province.

FREDK. WHITAKER.