Nov. 21.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1187

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago, situate in
the Survey Districts of Waikari, Dunedin and East Taieri,
and Lower Kaikorai, bounded towards the north-east gene-
rally by Sections Nos. 144, 142, 140, 138, 136, 134, and 122,
Waikari Survey District, and the south-western boundary-
line of the said Section No. 122 produced across a closed
road to Section No. 7, Block V., Lower Kaikorai Survey Dis-
trict; thence by the said Section No. 7 to Kaikorai Valley
Road; thence by the south-western boundary-line of Section
No. 7 aforesaid produced across that road; thence by the
said Section No. 7 to a closed road; thence by the south-
western boundary-line of Section No. 7 aforesaid produced
across the said closed road; and thence again by Section No.
7 to Block IX., Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District;
thence towards the south-east by the Borough of Mornington
to Section No. 18, Block V., Lower Kaikorai Survey District;
thence towards the south-west generally by the last-men-
tioned section to the middle of the Kaikorai Stream; thence
by a line along the middle of the said Kaikorai Stream to
Section No. 19 of the said Block V.; thence by the said
Section No. 19 and Sections Nos. 1 of 49 and 2 of 49, Block
VI., Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District; and towards
the west by Sections Nos. 68 and 57 of the said Block VI.,
and by the eastern boundary-line of the last-mentioned
section produced across a road to Section No. 144 aforesaid.

Special Order made by Wairarapa North County Council.—
Special Rate.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1889.

THE following special order, made by the Wairarapa
North County Council, is published for general infor-
mation.

W. R. RUSSELL.

SPECIAL ORDER.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by "The
Counties Act, 1886," and "The Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1886," the Council of the County of Wairarapa North resolves
as follows:-

That a special rate of off of a penny in the pound be made
on the rateable value of all the rateable property described
in the Schedule hereto, as security for the payment of
interest and annual charges on a loan of £700 under "The
Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for expendi-
ture in extending the formation of the Eketahuna-Tiraumea
section of the Eketahuna-Tinui Road towards Tiraumea.

That the said rate shall be an annual-recurring rate for a
period of twenty-six years, and shall be payable at the office
of this Council in two equal instalments, on the 1st day of
February and the, 1st day of August in each and every year,
commencing on the 1st day of February, 1890.

Passed at a special meeting of the Council, this 8th day of
October, 1889.
Confirmed by the said Council, this 12th day of November,
1889.

WILLIAM H. BEETHAM,
County Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and in-
habitants of the County of Wairarapa North was affixed
hereto by William Henry Beetham, County Chairman, in the
presence of F. G. Moore, County Clerk.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the County of Wairarapa North, being
one continuous area, and contained within the following
boundaries, that is to say, commencing at a point where the
south-eastern boundary of Section No. 169, Block IX.,
Puketoi Survey District, intersects the Tiraumea River, and
proceeding in an easterly direction. Bounded generally to
the north and north-west by the said Tiraumea River to
Section No. 55, Block VI.; thence by lines so as to include
the last-mentioned section, Section No. 54 and part of Section
No. 53, Block VI., part of Section No. 53, Sections Nos. 50,
20, and 48, Block VII., to the northernmost corner of Section
No. 27, Block VIII.; thence by Sections Nos. 23, 28, 29,
Block VIII., Sections Nos. 30, 31, Block XII., to the inter-
section of the south boundary of the last-mentioned section
with the Waitawhiti Stream; thence by the said stream to
the south-eastern corner of Section No. 137, Block X.;
thence by Sections Nos. 131, 134, 135, 136, 195, 194, 196, 181,
Block X., Sections Nos. 182, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22,
21, 20, 19, 18, 16, 17, 176, and 169, Block IX., all in the
Puketoi Survey District, to the point of commencement.

I certify that the above special order has been duly made.

F. G. MOORE,
County Clerk.

Despatch.—Tonnage Measurement of German Vessels.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 13th November, 1889.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is pub-
lished for general information.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(For the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.)

(Circular.) Downing Street, 13th August, 1889.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication
in the colony under your government, a copy of an Order of
the Queen in Council of the 23rd ultimo, revoking the Order
in Council of the 26th day of June, 1873, respecting the
tonage measurement of German vessels, and substituting
other provisions for the same.

I have, &c.,
KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the twenty-
third day of July, 1889.

Present:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act,
1862," it is enacted that, whenever it is made to appear to
Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement of
tonage of merchant-ships for the time being in force under
the principal Act have been adopted by the Government of
any foreign country, and are in force in that country, it shall
be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to direct that
the ships of such foreign country shall be deemed to be of
the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other
national papers, and thereupon it shall no longer be neces-
sary for such ships to be remeasured in any port or place in
Her Majesty's dominions, but such ships shall be deemed to
be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or
other papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and
for the same purposes in, to, and for which the tonnage
denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships is to be
deemed the tonnage of such ships:

And whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876," it is
enacted that, where Her Majesty has power under "The
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," or any Act passed or hereafter
to be passed amending the same, to make an Order in
Council, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to
time to make such Order in Council, and by Order in Council
to revoke, alter, or add to any order so made:

And whereas it was made to appear to Her Majesty that
the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of merchant-
ships in force under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,"
had been adopted by the Government of His Majesty the
German Emperor, with the exception of a difference in the
mode in certain steamers of estimating the allowance for
engine room, and such rules were in force in that country
and came into operation on the 1st day of January, 1873:

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 26th day of
June, 1873, Her Majesty was pleased to direct as follows:-

1. As regards sailing-ships, that merchant sailing-ships of
   the said German Empire the measurement whereof should,
   after the said 1st day of January, 1873, have been ascer-
   tained and denoted in the registers and other national papers
   of such sailing-ships, testified by the date thereof, should be
   deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in such registers and
   other national papers in the manner and to the same extent
   and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the tonnage
   denoted in the certificate of registry of British sailing-ships
   is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships.

2. As regards steamships, that merchant-ships belonging
   to the said German Empire which are propelled by steam, or
   any other power requiring engine room, the measurement
   whereof should, after the said 1st day of January, 1873, have
   been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other
   national papers of such steamships, testified by the dates
   thereof, should be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted on
   such registers or other national papers in the same manner
   and to the same extent, and for the same purpose in, to, and
   for which the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of
   British ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships:
   Provided, nevertheless, that, should the owner or master of
   any such German steamship desire the deduction for engine
   room in his ship to be estimated under the rules for engine-
   room measurement and deduction applicable to British ships
   instead of under the German rule, the engine room should
   be measured and the deduction calculated according to the
   British rules.

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty
that a new Imperial Ordinance, which came into operation
on the 20th day of June, 1888, stipulates that the owners of
German steamships may have the net tonnage of their
vessels calculated according to British as well as according