Ост. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1477

Notice to Mariners. No. 45 of 1880.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th October, 1880.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
is published for general information.
H. A. ATKINSON.

NEW SOUTH WALES, TO WIT. Under and by virtue of the
powers conferred upon us by
"The Navigation Act, 1871," and by "The Naviga-
tion Act Amendment Act, 1873," we, the Marine
Board of New South Wales, hereby make the follow-
ing regulation as to the warning signal to be made
by all steamships and harbour and river steamers
under weigh whilst proceeding on their ordinary
courses between sunset and sunrise in any harbour,
river, or other inland water within the jurisdiction:—
That is to say, we hereby order and direct that the
master or other person in charge of any steamship or
harbour and river steamer shall, whilst proceeding on
his ordinary course in any harbour, river, or other
inland water within the jurisdiction, between sunset
and sunrise, cause a steam-whistle to be sounded with
a prolonged blast at intervals of not more than two
minutes.

For the violation or infringement of this regulation
a penalty not exceeding £10 will be incurred.

The common seal of the Marine Board of
New South Wales was hereto affixed this
sixth day of September, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and eighty.

(L.S.)
FRANCIS HIXSON, President.
HENRY T. Fox,
BENJAMIN JENKINS,
ARCHIBALD MCLEAN, } Wardens.
WM. ROBERTSON,
JOHN BROOMFIELD,
Geo. S. LINDEMAN, Lieut. R.N.,
Secretary.

Decision of Court of Inquiry into Wreck of s.s.
"Rangatira" confirmed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 7th October, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to confirm the following
decision of the Court of Inquiry into the wreck of the
steamer "Rangatira," of Wellington, N.Z., official
No. 45951, 196 tons register; Edward Harvey,
Master, holding a New Zealand Home-Trade Cer-
tificate of Competency, No. 5058; and Thomas Swede,
Chief Officer, holding a New Zealand Home-Trade
Certificate as Master, No. 5145.

The vessel was wrecked on a reef about four miles
north of New Plymouth, at 3 a.m. on the 7th
ultimo.
H. A. ATKINSON.

THAT the Chief and Second Engineers and the Second
Officer are entirely free from blame.

That the Master was, to a certain extent, culpable,
in not keeping a more efficient look-out than appeared
to be the practice on board the said steamship, and in
not using the deep-sea log; but as the night was
clear and the water calm, and the Chief Officer having
neglected to call him as requested, I considered a
reprimand would be sufficient, there not being in my
opinion sufficient culpability to warrant a suspension
of his certificate.

That the Chief Officer was guilty of gross careless-
ness in first of all altering the ship's course half

a point without communication with the Master, and
in not calling the Master at the time he was requested
so to do.

That the said Chief Officer, being a comparative
stranger on the coast, was further guilty of gross
carelessness, almost amounting to incompetency, in
mistaking the shore light at Bell Block for the New
Plymouth light, more particularly as the light of the
"Hinemoa," then lying in the roadstead, was also
visible; and, further, that on immediately seeing the
light which led him astray he was guilty of extreme
neglect in not calling the Master, who would at once
have rectified the error.

I, therefore, am of opinion that the certificate of
the Chief Officer should be suspended, and have
accordingly suspended it for six calendar months.

Given under my hand this fifteenth day of
September, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty, at New Plymouth, New
Zealand.

THOS. A. MANSFORD,
Resident Magistrate.

We concur in the above report.
J. H. HOLFORD,
J. DUNCAN HARRIS, } Assessors.

JOINT Standing Orders relative to Local Bills.

JOINT Standing Orders of both Houses of the
General Assembly relative to Local Bills :—

1. Local Bills are those which, not being private
   Bills, affect particular localities only.

2. No local Bill shall be read a second time, unless
   notice shall have been given of the said Bill in the
   locality to which the Bill refers.

3. Such notice shall state explicitly the object
   which such Bill is intended to effect, and shall have
   been published once at least in each of three succes-
   sive weeks before the second reading, in a newspaper
   circulating in such locality.

October, 1880.
F. E. CAMPBELL,
Clerk of Parliaments.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—ALFRED BROOKS MALLESON, of London,
in England, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of
Judicature of England, has been appointed by his
Honor the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, in England, under
the fourth section of "The Commissioners of the
Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of taking
acknowledgments of married women under any Act
or law in force in the Colony of New Zealand requir-
ing such acknowledgments to be made or taken.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 7th October, 1880.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—ALFRED BROOKS MALLESON, of London,
in England, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of
Judicature of England, has been appointed by his
Honor the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, in England, under
the second section of "The Commissioners of the
Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of ad-
ministering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and
affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 7th October, 1880.