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on board all the Indian and Imperial troopships, and the emigration authorities at Calcutta are contemplating making it compulsory for all vessels carrying native emigrants to have four large rafts constructed from the deck-fittings, each capable of accommodating about thirty persons.

It will be seen from the United States Regulations that American vessels are required to carry a certain number of rafts in proportion to the capacity of the boats, and also floating appliances for every one on board.

Representations have also recently been made by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia, urging our Government to co-operate with them in compelling the use of such appliances, and an extract from the report of that society will be found below.

The Wreck Register for the years 1883-84 shows that the loss of life for twelve months was 2,245, of which 1,282 lives were lost on missing vessels, and in many of these instances boats must have been responsible for the loss.

Out of 10,914 lives saved from shipwrecks at home and abroad during this period, only 5,430 (or less than one-half) were rescued by the ship’s boats, and four persons only were saved by “life-buoys and appliances kept on board,” showing how inefficiently the wrecked vessels must have been provided with such appliances.

The evidence above referred to is sufficient to speak for itself, but there still exists a prejudice amongst a small section of nautical men against providing any means of escape if a ship goes down, as they say it is better to sink with the ship than to run the risk of prolonging suffering in an open boat or in the water. Such persons do not realize the large number of lives which might be saved by efficient floating appliances where wrecks occur from collision or other accident near the shore, or within reach of help, and possibly in fine weather and broad daylight.

The prejudice referred to is certainly not shared by the public or by the general body of seafaring people; and it is submitted that the time has gone by when such an opinion can be allowed to prevail, and every effort must now be made for the protection of human life in case of accident to the ship.

It is not suggested that the Board of Trade should make the use of any particular invention compulsory, but it is submitted that the same precautions should be taken to test the efficiency of the different rafts and appliances which are offered to the shipowner for adoption as the Board of Trade now take with regard to brakes in railway trains, safety-lamps in mines, &c.; and that the Board should be authorized to require that every passenger-vessel should have its deck-fittings made capable of saving life in case of accident, in accordance with some of the methods which they may have approved for this purpose. Moreover, it is strongly recommended that the regulations adopted by the United States with regard to the supply of rafts in the proportion of “at least one-fourth of the aggregate capacity of the boats,” or some approved modification of this rule, should be adopted in this country.

The evidence referred to above will be found in the following order:—

1. Evidence taken by the Royal Commission;
2. List of casualties where ships’ boats have been lost or failed;
3. United States Regulations. (Rule 10);
4. Extract from the Report of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia;
5. Extracts from the Wreck Register.

21st October, 1886.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN NEWTON, of the Caledonian Soap Works, Kaiwarra, Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, has applied to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz.:—

Description of Trade Mark.

A stamp or brand composed of the words “Perfection Soap,” with or without the name “Newton’s” prefixed thereto.

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

Soap for household, laundry, or manufacturing purposes, in bars or in tablets.

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

Application for Registration of Three Trade Marks.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of J. KRONHEIMER AND COMPANY, of No. 32, Queen Street, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Importers, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade marks numbered from 1 to 3, of which the following is a description, viz.:—

Description of Trade Marks.

No. 1 consists of the device of a crown between the words “Golden Crown” above, and the representation of two cigars crossed below. On one of said cigars is the device of a crown above the letters “GC.”

No. 2 consists of the device of a star in combination with the initial “D” on the left.

No. 3 consists of a label bearing the representation of the goddess of morning standing upright in a chariot which is being drawn through the air by three horses. In front of the horses is the figure of a woman with outspread arms holding a gauze scarf behind her; above her head is a star and the word “Dawn,” and in front of her is a crescent moon. Behind the goddess is a rising sun.

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

Cigars.

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

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that EDWARD WATERS, Patent Agent, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, has applied, on behalf of HENRY BROOKS AND ROBERT COCHRANE, trading under the name or style of “HENRY BROOKS AND COMPANY,” at No. 70, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the City of London, in England, and at No. 359, George Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, and also trading under the name or style of “BROOKS, ROBINSON, AND COMPANY,” at No. 39, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Merchants and Exporters, to register, under “The Trade Marks Act, 1866,” the trade mark of which the following is a description, viz.:—

Description of Trade Mark.

The device of an eight-pointed star.

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

Mineral, animal, and vegetable oils; heating, lighting, and lubricating oils; pitch, tar, glue, hessians, and scrims.

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

Arrangements for First Elections, New County of Otamatea.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1887.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES HEMPHILL

to be the person to make up electors’ rolls for the Ridings of Kaiwaka, Whakapirau, Wairau, Mareretu, Paparoa, Matakohe, and Tokatoka, in the new County of Otamatea, as constituted under “The Counties Act, 1886;” also to appoint

THOMAS WILLIAM DOWSON

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of two members of the County Council of the said County of Otamatea for the Kaiwaka Riding; also to appoint

HENRY MCMURDO

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the election of one member of the said Council for the Whakapirau Riding; also to appoint

JAMES HEMPHILL

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of one member of the said Council for the Wairau Riding; also to appoint

JOHN SYKES

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of one member of the said Council for the Paparoa Riding; also to appoint

BASIL HEWLETT

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of one member of the said Council for the Mareretu Riding; also to appoint

JOSEPH ISBISTER

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of one member of the said Council for the Matakohe Riding; also to appoint

JOHN JONES

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of one member of the said Council for the Tokatoka Riding;