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7. Any owner or master of a British ship who
   neglects to cause his ship to be marked as by this
   Act required, or to keep her so marked, and any
   person who conceals, removes, alters, defaces, or
   obliterates, or suffers any person under his control
   to conceal, remove, alter, deface, or obliterate, any of
   the said marks, except in the event of the particulars
   thereby denoted being lawfully altered, or except
   for the purpose of escaping capture by an enemy,
   shall for each offence incur a penalty not exceeding
   one hundred pounds.

If any of the marks required by this Act is in any
respect inaccurate, so as to be likely to mislead, the
owner of the ship shall incur a penalty not exceeding
one hundred pounds.

8. Where a claim of compensation under "The
   Merchant Shipping Act, 1873," is made against the
   Board of Trade, and liability to pay compensation,
   or the amount thereof is in dispute, proceedings may
   be taken against the Board of Trade by action against
   the principal Secretary thereof as nominal defendant.

9. In every contract of service, express or implied,
   between the owner of a ship and the master or any
   seaman thereof, and in every instrument of appren-
   ticeship whereby any person is bound to serve as an
   apprentice on board any ship, there shall be implied,
   notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, an
   obligation on the part of the owner of the ship to
   the master, seaman, or apprentice, that the owner of
   the ship, his agents and servants, shall use all reason-
   able efforts to insure the seaworthiness of the ship
   for the voyage at the commencement thereof, and to
   keep her in a seaworthy condition during the voyage.

Provided that nothing in this section shall make
the owner of a ship liable for the death of or any
injury to a master, seaman, or apprentice belonging
to any ship when caused by the wrongful Act, neglect,
or default of a seaman or apprentice belonging to
the same ship, in any case where he would not other-
wise be so liable.

10. This Act may be cited as "The Merchant
    Shipping Act, 1875," and shall be construed as one
    with "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and the
    Acts amending the same; and the said Acts and this
    Act may be cited collectively as "The Merchant
    Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1875."

11. This Act shall continue in force until the first
    day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
    seventy-six.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 13th, January, 1876.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
Tenderers is published for general information.
EDWARD RICHARDSON.

WAITARA-WANGANUI RAILWAY.
WAIONGONA CONTRACT.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
John Henderson, Wellington ... 13,707 7 9

Declined.
Wm. Bayly and Isaac Bayly, New Plymouth 17,841 0 0
Alex. McDonald and W. Brooking, New Ply-
mouth 17,934 7 0
T. E. Hammerton, New Plymouth 18,073 11 10
Fraser and Roberts, Wellington 18,453 9 9
J. Mubree, New Plymouth 19,928 2 0

Authority to Frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
THE SUPERINTENDENT COLLECTORS under "The
Census Act Amendment Act, 1867,"

a notification of whose appointment appears in this
Gazette, or whose appointments may be hereafter
notified in any subsequent Gazette, to frank and
receive, free from prepayment of postage, for a period
of four months from this date, letters and packets
addressed from or to them "on census business only."

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(for the Postmaster-General).

Inquiry for a Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th January, 1876.

INQUIRIES have been made for a person named

CYRUS LOWE,
who came to Auckland in the "City of Auckland,"
in 1873. He is about 5 feet 6 inches in height, has
regular features, dark eyes, and brown hair, and is by
occupation a railway platelayer. He was last heard
of in 1874, at the Governor Browne Hotel, Auckland.
Any person possessing information respecting the
person above named is requested to communicate the
same to this office.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
Acting Under Secretary.

"Marriage Act, 1854."

OFFICIATING MINISTER FOR 1876.-NOTICE No. 1.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1876.

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 :-

United Methodist Free Church.
The Reverend JOHN WESLEY WORBOYS.

W. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Appointment of Medical Referee.*

Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1876.

THE under-mentioned gentleman has been ap-
pointed Medical Referee, under "The Govern-
ment Insurance and Annuities Act, 1874," for the
district of Charleston, in the Province of Nelson.

GEORGE HENRY, Esq., L.R.C.S.I., L.S.A. Lond.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

PURSUANT to Section 97 of the above Act, notice
is hereby given that a Memorandum of Transfer
from SIMON FREDERICK EVERY to GEORGE
COOK and ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, of
Section number 594, Block II., on the map of the
Anderson's Bay District, in the Province of Otago,
has been lodged with me for registration; and that I
intend to register the same at the expiration of
fourteen days from the date of the publication
hereof.

Dated this 13th day of January, 1876, at the Lands
Registry Office, Dunedin.

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A. W. SMITH,
Deputy District Land Registrar.