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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1869.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1869.

THE following Despatches, with enclosures, from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street,
11th November, 1868.

SIR,—I transmit to you for the information and
guidance of yourself and the Judges of the Vice-
Admiralty Court, a copy of a Letter from the Board
of Trade, with a copy of the Order in Council of the
30th of July last, containing additions to the Regula-
tions* for preventing Collisions at Sea, appended to
the Order in Council of the 9th of January, 1863.

I enclose additional copies of the Circular and its
enclosures, for the use of the Judges of the Vice-
Admiralty Court.

I have, &c.,
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

Enclosures.

Mr. Gray to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial
Office.

Board of Trade,
Whitehall, 26th October, 1868.

SIR,—I am directed by the Board of Trade to
transmit to you, to be laid before His Grace the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, a copy of the
Order in Council of the 30th July last, containing
additions to the Regulations for preventing Collisions
at Sea, appended to the Order in Council of the 9th
January, 1863, by way of explanation of Articles 11
and 13, and to request that you will be so good as to
move His Grace to cause the Order in question to
be brought under the notice of the Officers adminis-
tering the Government in Her Majesty's Colonies,
and the Judges of the Vice-Admiralty Courts, in
such a manner as he may think desirable.

*Vide Circular of the 29th January, 1863.

A supply of copies of the Order in Council will be
forwarded to you upon the receipt of an intimation
of the number required.

I have, &c.,
THOMAS GRAY.

The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT,
THE 30TH DAY OF JULY, 1868.

Present:

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Section 25.

WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amend-
ment Act, 1862," it was enacted, that on and after
the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three, or such later day as might be fixed for
the purpose by Order in Council, the Regulations
contained in the table marked C. in the Schedule to
the said Act should come into operation and be of
the same force as if they were enacted in the body of
the said Act; but that Her Majesty might from time
to time, on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty
and the Board of Trade, by Order in Council annul
or modify any of the said Regulations, or make new
Regulations in addition thereto or in substitution
therefor, and that any alterations in or additions to
such Regulations made in manner aforesaid should be
of the same force as the Regulations in the said
Schedule:

Section 58.—Section 61.

And whereas by the same Act it was further pro-
vided that whenever it should be made to appear to
Her Majesty that the Government of any foreign
country is willing that the Regulations for preventing
collision contained in Table C. in the Schedule to the
said Act, or such other Regulations for preventing
collision as are for the time being in force under the
said Act, should apply to the ships of such country
when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction, Her
Majesty might by Order in Council direct that such
Regulations shall apply to the ships of the said foreign