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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Publishers, Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.,
Stationers' Hall Court, London, E.C.
I have,. &c.,
GRANVILLE.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

Downing Street, 18th May, 1869.
SIR, I transmit to you herewith, a copy of a letter
from the Board of Trade, enclosing a Notice to
Colonial Shipmasters and others, relative to Sections
109, 136, 280, and 284 of "The Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854."

I have, &c.,
GRANVILLE.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

(Enclosure.)
Mr. Gray to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial
Office.
(Colonial Certificates.)
Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens,
16th April, 1869.
SIR, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state,
for the information of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, that they have found it necessary to cancel
certain Instructions issued by them in 1863, to the
Superintendents of the Mercantile Marine Offices in
the United Kingdom, under which a Colonial vessel
was allowed to clear without production of the
master's and mate's certificates for any intermediate
port or ports, not situate in the Colony in which the
vessel was registered, provided her ultimate desti-
nation, as shown by the ship's papers, was a port
situate in that Colony.

Notification of this fact has been made public in
this country; but as Colonial shipmasters and owners
occasionally plead ignorance of the law on the sub-
ject, I am to suggest, for the consideration of Earl
Granville, whether it might not be desirable to fur-
nish the Officers Administering the Governments of
Her Majesty's several Possessions abroad with copies
of the accompanying printed notice, and to request
them to take steps for giving publicity to its contents.

I have, &c.,
THOMAS GRAY.

The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

(Sub-Enclosure.)
[CIRCULAR NO. 350.]
NOTICE TO MASTERS, MATES, BROKERS, AND
OTHERS INTERESTED IN COLONIAL SHIPS.
With reference to Sections 109, 136, 280, and 284 of
"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854."

Colonial Ships engaged in the Trade of the United Kingdom.
In consequence of the ignorance occasionally
manifested by Colonial shipmasters of the provisions
of the Merchant Shipping Act which affect Colonial
ships engaged in the trade of the United Kingdom,
attention is hereby directed to the terms of the last
clause of Section 109 of "The Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854," viz., "The whole of the third part of
this Act shall apply to . . . all ships registered
in any British Possession, and employed in trading
or going between any place in the United Kingdom
and any place or places not situate in the Possession
in which such ships are registered, and to the owners,
masters, and crews of such ships respectively, wherever
the same may be."

Officers' Certificates.
By Section 136 (one of the sections contained in
the third part of the Act) it is provided as follows :—
"No foreign-going ship or home-trade passenger ship
shall go to sea from any port in the United Kingdom
unless the master thereof, and in the case of a foreign-
going ship the first and second mates or only mate
(as the case may be), and in the case of a home-
trade passenger ship the first or only mate (as
the case may be), have obtained and possess valid
certificates either of competency or service appro-
priate to their several stations in such ship, or of a
higher grade; and no such ship, if of one hundred tons
burden or upwards, shall go to sea as aforesaid, unless
at least one officer besides the master has obtained
and possesses a valid certificate appropriate to the
grade of only mate therein or to a higher grade; and
every person who, having been engaged to serve as
master, or as first or second or only mate of any
foreign-going ship, or as master or first or only
mate of a home-trade passenger ship, goes to sea
as aforesaid as such master or mate, without
being at the time entitled to and possessed of such
a certificate as hereinbefore required, or who employs
any person as master, or first, second, or only mate
of any foreign-going ship, or as master or first or only
mate of a home-trade passenger ship, without ascer-
taining that he is at the time entitled to and possessed
of such certificate, shall for each such offence incur a
penalty not exceeding fifty pounds."

Official Logs.
By Section 280 (another of the sections contained
in the third part of the Act), it is provided that "The
Board of Trade shall sanction forms of official log-
books, which may be different for different classes
of ships, so that each such form contains blanks for
the entries hereinafter required; and an official log of
every ship (exceptships employed exclusively in trading
between ports on the coasts of the United Kingdom)
shall be kept in the appropriate sanctioned form;
and such official log may, at the discretion of the
master or owner, either be kept distinct from the
ordinary ship's log or united therewith, so that in
all cases all the blanks in the official log be duly filled
up." And by Section 284 it is provided, that if in
any case an official log-book is not kept in the manner
required by the Act, or if any entry directed by the
Act to be made in any such log-book is not made at
the time and in the manner thereby directed, the
master shall, for each such offence, incur the specific
penalty therein mentioned in respect thereof, or where
there is no such specific penalty, a penalty not ex-
ceeding five pounds.

THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant Secretary.

CIRCULAR.
Downing Street,
15th April, 1869.
SIR,-I transmit to you herewith a copy of a
Letter from a Silk Supply Association, with a copy
of a Report of the proceedings of a Meeting, and the
Resolutions adopted, for establishing a Silk Supply
Association in London. In case you should be of
opinion that the interest of the Colony might be
advanced by giving publicity to the objects of the
Association, you will take such steps as you may
consider fitting for that purpose.

I have, &c.,
GRANVILLE.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

Enclosures.
Secretary to Silk Supply Association to Earl
Granville.
Silk Supply Association,
Offices--3, Castle Street, Holborn, London, E.C.,
8th March, 1869.
MY LORD, I have the honor to forward herewith
a copy of the proceedings and resolutions establishing
a Silk Supply Association in London.