12 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Power to Board of Trade to declare ship unseaworthy.
10. If complaint is made to the Board of Trade
that any British ship is, by reason of the defective
condition of her hull or equipments, unfit to proceed
to sea, the Board may cause such ship to be surveyed
by one of the surveyors appointed by them, and if
such surveyor report that the hull or equipments of
such ship is or are in such a state that she could not
proceed to sea without serious danger to human life,
the Board may declare such ship to be unseaworthy,
and thereupon any principal officer of Customs may
detain such ship.

Every such complaint shall be in writing, and shall
state the name and address of the complainant; and a
copy of the complaint, including the name and ad-
dress of the complainant, shall before or during such
survey be given by the Board of Trade to the master
or to an owner of the ship.

If, upon such survey, such ship is found to be sea-
worthy, the expenses of the survey shall be paid to
the Board of Trade by the person making the com-
plaint, without prejudice to any right of suit or
action against him by any person aggrieved by the
complaint.

If, upon such survey, such ship is found to be
unseaworthy, the expenses of the survey shall be paid
to the Board of Trade by the owner of the ship.

Any shipowner who is dissatisfied with the decision
of a surveyor under this section may appeal to any
of the Courts mentioned in this section having juris-
diction in the place where such ship was surveyed,
and such Court may, if they think fit, appoint one or
more competent persons to survey such ship anew,
and any surveyor so appointed shall have the powers
of a surveyor appointed by the Board of Trade.

Upon any such appeal the Court may make such order
as to the detention or discharge of the ship, as to the
payment of any costs and damages which may have
been occasioned by her detention, and as to the
payment of the expenses of the original survey and of
the survey anew, as to the Court seems just.

The Courts to which appeal may be made shall
be-

In England, any Court having jurisdiction under
"The County Court Admiralty Jurisdiction
Act, 1868."

In Ireland, any Court having jurisdiction under
"The Court of Admiralty (Ireland) Act, 1867."

In Scotland, the Court of the Sheriff of the
County.

Sending unseaworthy ship to sea, a misdemeanour.
11. Every person who, having authority as owner
or otherwise to send a ship to sea, sends her to sea
in an unseaworthy state, so as to endanger the life
of any person belonging to or on board the same,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, unless he proves
that he used all reasonable means to make and keep
the ship seaworthy, and was ignorant of such unsea-
worthiness, or that her going to sea in an unseaworthy
state was, under the circumstances, reasonable and
unavoidable, and for this purpose he may give
evidence in the same manner as any other witness.
A misdemeanour under this section shall not be
punishable on summary conviction.

Repeal of certain sections of 17 and 18 Vict. c. 104, and
18 and 19 Vict. c. 91.
12. On and after the first day of January one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, the twenty-
fifth and thirty-fourth sections of "The Merchant
Shipping Act, 1854," and the thirteenth section of
"The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1855,"
shall be repealed.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 1 of 1872.
Customs Department, (Marine Branch,)
Wellington, 27th December, 1872.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Department of Ports and Harbours, Bris-
bane, is published for general information.
JULIUS VOGEL.

NORTH ENTRANCE TO BROAD SOUND.

MR. ARTHUR NEILL, Master of the schooner
"Princess Alexandra," reports that on the
morning of the 12th ultimo, when to the eastward of
Sandy Shoal, he sighted a patch of rocks not laid
down upon the chart.

These rocks, he states, were about 4 feet above
water, the tide being young flood, and the bearings
from them as follows, viz. :-

West Hill, W.N.
No. 1 Flat Isle, S.E.AS.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 5th December, 1872.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1871.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:---

Free Church of Scotland.
The Reverend JAMES LAWRIE.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Name of an Officiating
Minister, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 7, of the 31st of January; No. 14,
of the 25th of February; No. 19, of the 18th
of March; No. 20, of the 27th of March; No. 23,
of the 13th of April; No. 24, of the 26th of April;
No. 27, of the 13th of May; No. 29, of the 20th of
May; No. 38, of the 4th of July; No. 43, of the
5th of August; No. 49, of the 5th of September;
No. 52, of the 23rd of September; No. 56, of the
20th of October; No. 57, of the 25th of October;
No. 58, of the 3rd of November; No. 60, of the 20th
of November; and No. 62, of the 30th of November,
in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land
hereinafter described will be brought under
the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1870,"
unless caveat in the meantime be lodged forbidding
the same.

GEORGE IRELAND RUSSELL, of Napier,
Surgeon.-2 roods, Sections 212 and 213, Town of
Napier. In occupation of Applicant.
Time for caveat, 12th February, 1872.
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 29th day of December, 1871, at the
Lands Registry Office, Napier.
1010
HANSON TURTON,
District Land Registrar.