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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 123

Description of Trade Mark.

The words “Blue Ribbon Champagne” printed on a blue ribbon design of horseshoe shape, and enclosing a knot of blue ribbon.

Nature of the Articles to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.

Liqueurs and cordials.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Trade Marks.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

Mr. ALEX. WILLIS,
Private Secretary to the Premier, to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th November, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £4,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1885, and no claim will be considered that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 31st January, 1885.

Every public library maintained by rates will be entitled to share in the distribution according to its income from rates; and every public library maintained by subscriptions and voluntary contributions will be entitled to share according to its income from subscriptions and voluntary contributions: Provided in either case that the income for the year has not been less than £2; and that admission to the library, if within a borough, is open to the public free of charge: The net proceeds of lectures, concerts, or other entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the library, will be regarded as “voluntary contributions.”

A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club, whose membership is composed of a section of the community only. As a rule, a subsidy will not be given to more than one library in the same town.

The income of each library may be stated either for the year ending the 31st December, 1884, or for the year ending with that day in the year 1884 on which the annual accounts of the library were made up.

The distribution will not be in proportion to the several incomes of the libraries; but a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each income, and the vote of £4,000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented, but so as that no institution shall receive more than £50, and that no payment shall be made in respect of income derived from endowments or grants from Borough or County Councils, or of moneys received for building purposes, and not simply for the current expenses of the library itself, or of moneys received as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of any building or room belonging to the institution.

Application to share in the distribution must be made in the form of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made; and such declaration shall be in the following form:—

DECLARATION.

I [name], of [place of abode], [occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary or Treasurer] of the [name of institution]; that during the year ending the day of , 1884, the income of the aforesaid institution for the purposes of a library only was as follows: From rates levied by a local governing body under “The Public Libraries Act, 1869,” pounds shillings and pence, from the subscriptions of members, pounds shillings and pence, and from voluntary contributions other than members’ subscriptions, pounds shillings and pence; that the information hereinafter furnished by me is correct in every particular; that the attached statement is a true copy of the audited statement of the accounts of the institution for the year herein specified; and that by the rules of the institution admission to the reading-room is open to the public free of charge.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day
of , 188 , before me—

Justice of the Peace,
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public.]

[NOTE.—The words relating to free admission may be struck out if the library is not in a borough. The words in brackets are not part of the form, but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

Copies of the form of statutory declaration may be obtained on application to the Secretary for Education, Wellington, or to the Secretary of any Education Board.

ROBERT STOUT.

Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 17th November, 1884.

THE following regulations for preventing collisions at sea, made by an Order of the Queen in Council on the 11th August last, under the provisions of “The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862,” on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, are published for general information.

These regulations are, in pursuance of section 172 of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” in force in New Zealand from the date specified in the Order in Council, namely, the 1st September, 1884; and are, so far as regards British ships and boats, to be substituted for the regulations which were made by the Queen’s Order in Council of the 14th August, 1879, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 36, of the 15th April, 1880.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(for Minister having charge of Marine Department.)

REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA.

Art. 1. In the following rules every steamship which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing-ship; and every steamship which is under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a ship under steam.

Rules concerning Lights.

Art. 2. The lights mentioned in the following articles, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and no others, shall be carried in all weathers, from sunset to sunrise.

Art. 3. A seagoing steamship when under way shall carry—

(a.) On or in front of the foremast, at a height above the hull of not less than 20 feet, and if the breadth of the ship exceeds 20 feet, then at a height above the hull not less than such breadth, a bright white light, so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light 10 points on each side of the ship, viz., from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least five miles.

(b.) On the starboard side, a green light so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles.

(c.) On the port side, a red light, so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles.

(d.) The said green and red side-lights shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least 3 feet forward from the light, so as to prevent these lights from being seen across the bow.

Art. 4. A steamship, when towing another ship, shall, in addition to her side-lights, carry two bright white lights in a vertical line one over the other, not less than 3 feet apart, so as to distinguish her from other steamships. Each of these lights shall be of the same construction and character, and shall be carried in the same position, as the white light which other steamships are required to carry.

Art. 5. (a.) A ship, whether a steamship or a sailing-ship, which from any accident is not under command, shall at night carry, in the same position as the white light which steamships are required to carry, and, if a steamship, in place of that light, three red lights in globular lanterns, each not less than 10 inches in diameter, in a vertical line one over the other, not less than 3 feet apart, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere at a distance of at least two miles; and shall by day carry in a vertical line one over the other, not less