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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 15th May, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN BLACKETT, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Visiting Justice of the Nelson Gaol.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 19th May, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH,
of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Esquire, to be
District Registrar of Land for the District of
Dunedin.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 23rd May, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THOMAS BECKHAM, Esq.,
to be District Judge at Auckland, in the Province of
Auckland, with the limited powers specified in the
proviso of the fourth section of "The District Court
Act, 1858."

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 23rd May, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM FRANCIS LODGE, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the District Court of Auckland.

E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1866.

THE following Bye-Laws (Waterman's Regulations)
for the Ports of Auckland and Onehunga, approved
by His Excellency the Governor in Council on the
fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six, are published for general information.

JAMES PATERSON,
Postmaster-General.

BYE-LAWS.-Waterman's Regulations.

1. Every person who wishes to ply as a waterman
   in the Port of Auckland must make application in
   writing to His Honor the Superintendent for a
   license, such application to be signed by two respect-
   able persons, who, together with the applicant, must
   enter into a bond to the amount of fifty pounds
   (£50), for the good behavior and due performance of
   the duty required to be performed in his capacity as
   a waterman.

2. Before a license is granted to any boat she
   must be inspected by two or more competent persons
   appointed by the Superintendent, who will, if
   approved of for a passenger boat, issue a certificate
   as to her dimensions, and the number of passengers
   she is entitled to carry, such certificate must be
   produced before a license will be granted.

3. For every such license a fee of two pounds
   sterling per annum must be paid at the time the
   applicant receives his license, and the said license
   must be renewed on or before the 15th day of
   January in each year, subject to clauses one and two
   of these regulations.

4. Every licensed waterman plying for hire must
   have his name legibly painted in letters two inches
   long, together with his number, on the inside part of
   the gunwale of the stern sheets of his boat; also the
   number of passengers his boat is licensed to carry,
   and the name of his boat, as inserted in his license,
   legibly painted at the back board.

5. Any person carrying passengers for hire without
   a license, or any person lending his license to another
   to make use of, or any licensed waterman charging
   more than the authorized rate of fares, or refusing to
   employ his boat when required to do so, shall forfeit
   his license, and will be liable to a penalty not exceed-
   ing five pounds. But any licensed waterman who,
   from sickness, is prevented from plying, may, on the
   production of a medical certificate, be permitted to
   transfer his license to a person approved by the
   Harbour Master, for a period not exceeding one
   month.

6. No boat shall be allowed to remain at any land-
   ing place after discharging her passengers, or to make
   fast to any steps or hand-rails belonging thereto, or
   in any way obstruct the passage to and from the
   same, and no boats, casks, timber, bulky or heavy
   article of any description shall be hauled up or down
   the steps so as to obstruct passengers from landing
   or embarking, under a penalty not exceeding five
   pounds.

7. It shall be imperative for one of the licensed
   watermen to act as night waterman every night
   throughout the year, such watermen taking their
   respective turns, and upon no consideration shall the
   stairs be left, except only while conveying passengers
   on board ship or elsewhere. The time the night
   watermen shall be on duty is from sunset till sunrise:
   and breach of this clause of the regulations will subject
   the offender to a penalty of one pound. A list of
   licensed watermen, showing the rotation for night
   duty, shall be placed in the Harbour Master's Office,
   and any dispute shall be determined by that officer.

8. The house on the Queen Street Wharf in Auck-
   land, known as the Waterman's House, and the house
   in Onehunga, known as the Mangarei Ferry, will be
   set apart for the use of the licensed watermen, and no
   other person will be allowed to occupy these buildings.
   Should any person persist in doing so, the watermen
   on duty are requested to report the same to the
   Water Police, or the policeman doing duty on the
   wharf, who will cause such intruders to be removed.

9. Watermen, boatmen, carters, porters, and all
   other persons engaged on the wharves in the Ports
   of Auckland and Onehunga, shall be under the con-
   trol of the harbour authorities. Any person resisting,
   impeding, or obstructing the said authorities in the
   execution of their duty, or using threatening or
   abusive language to any of them, shall forfeit and
   pay a sum of not less than five pounds, or not more
   than twenty pounds.

10. The authorized fares shall be as follows:-

For the Port of Auckland.
s. d.

From the Queen Street Wharf to vessels
lying in the Stream at the usual
anchorage, single fare to or from ... 1 6
Two or more passengers each way ... 1 0

From Queen Street Wharf to any vessel
lying off Freeman's Bay or the
Wynyard Pier, single fare to or from 2 0
Two or more passengers each way ... 1 6

From Queen Street Wharf to Stoke's Point,
Shoal Bay, and Holme's Wharf, a

• single passenger to or from ... 5 0