1188
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

to German rules, and shall have issued to them a separate
certificate, to be used in foreign countries, showing the net
tonage calculated according to British rules:
And whereas it has been made to appear desirable to Her
Majesty that the provisions of the said recited Order in
Council of the 26th day of June, 1873, should be revoked,
and a new Order in Council made and substituted in lieu
thereof:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in virtue of the powers
vested in her by the said recited Acts, and by and with the
advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to direct that the said
recited order of the 26th day of June, 1873, shall be and the
same is hereby revoked, and in lieu thereof and in substi-
tution therefor Her Majesty is hereby pleased, by and with
the advice of her Privy Council, to direct as follows:-

1. As regards sailing-ships, that merchant sailing-ships of
   the said German Empire the measurement whereof after the
   said 1st day of January, 1873, has been ascertained and
   denoted in the registers and other national papers of such
   sailing-ships, testified by the date thereof, shall be deemed
   to be of the tonnage denoted in such registers and other
   national papers in the same manner, and to the same
   extent, and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the
   tonage denoted in the certificate of registry of British sail-
   ing-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 shall, 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, shall 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, if the owner or master of any
   such German steamship desires 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 shall be
   measured and the deduction calculated according to the
   British rules; and that, in the event of any such steamship
   possessing a certificate of tonnage or other national paper
   issued as aforesaid on or after the 20th day of June, 1888,
   denoting the net registered tonnage of such ship under the
   British rules, the ship shall be deemed to be of the tonnage
   so denoted thereon.
   C. L. PEEL.

Passengers Acts Amendment Act, 1889.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 14th November, 1889.
THE following despatch and enclosure, received from the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for
general information.
E. MITCHELSON,
(For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 5th September, 1889.
SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information
and publication in the colony under your Government, a
copy of an Act passed in the late session of Parliament to
amend "The Passengers Act, 1855," and "The Passengers
Act Amendment Act, 1863." This Act renders unnecessary
the colonial legislation suggested in my circular despatch
of the 29th November, 1887.
I have, &c.,
KNUTSFORD.
The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

CHAPTER 29.

AN ACT to amend "The Passengers Act, 1855," and "The
Passengers Act Amendment Act, 1863."
12th August, 1889.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as-
sembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
Short Title and construction.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Passengers Acts Amend-
   ment Act, 1889," and shall be construed together with "The
   Passengers Act, 1855," and "The Passengers Act Amend-
   ment Act, 1863."
   Amendment of 18 and 19 Vict., c. 119, s. 52; 26 and 27 Vict., c. 51,
   s. 15.
2. For the purposes of the fifty-second section of "The
   Passengers Act, 1855," and the fifteenth section of "The

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Passengers Act Amendment Act, 1863," the term "passen-
ger-ship" shall signify every description of sea-going vessel
carrying one or more passenger or passengers on any voyage
from any place in Her Majesty's dominions to any place
whatever.

Notice to Mariners, No. 31 of 1889.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th November, 1889.
THE following Notices to Mariners received from the
Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne,
Victoria, and the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, are
published for general information.
EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

PRESERVATION OF THE SUBMARINE ELECTRIC CABLE BE-
TWEEN SWAN ISLAND AND OBSERVATORY POINT, POINT
NEPEAN.

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency Sir Henry Brougham Loch, Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Victoria and
its Dependencies, &c.

WHEREAS by "The Passengers, Harbours, and Navigation
Statute, 1865," it is, amongst other things, enacted that
the Governor in Council, by Proclamation published in the
Government Gazette, may from time to time define the limits
and boundaries of ports in Victoria, and frame rules and
regulations for the governance and preservation of the said
ports respectively, and for the regulation of shipping in the
same, and also for the due protection and preservation and
the good government and management of all public wharves,
and may appoint officers to carry out and enforce such rules
and regulations; and any such limits, boundaries, rules, and
regulations may from time to time be in like manner altered,
amended, or repealed, and others substituted in their stead:
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of Victoria, with the advice
of the Executive Council, do hereby proclaim the following
to be an additional port regulation, and to be observed
accordingly :-
Submarine Electric Cable: For the preservation of the
submarine electric cable laid between Swan Island and
Observatory Point, Point Nepean, vessels shall not be an-
chored within four cables on either side of an imaginary
line crossing Port Phillip Bay from Swan Beacon to Pope's
Eye Fort, and thence to Observatory Point.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Colony, at
Melbourne, this twenty-first day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, and in the fifty-third year of Her
Majesty's reign.
HENRY B. LOCH.
(L.S.)
By His Excellency's command.
J. B. PATTERSON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAIT.

THE following information has been supplied by Lieutenant
G. C. Frederick, R.N., commanding H.M. surveying ship
"Dart":-
Oswald Reef, near Cape Melville, is 4 cables in length
north and south and 3 cables wide, with a general depth of
from 2 to 5 fathoms. It has, however, several coral heads
with not more than 9ft., and one near its western edge on
which there is only 4ft. at low-water springs, and which lies
in the following position: Lightship, S. 20° W.; Sandy Islet,
Pipon Islands, S. 64° 30′ E.; left extreme, N. 87° E.
Taiwan Shoal has not more than 17ft. of water over it at
low-water springs, and lies midway between e and g Reefs,
with the beacon on e Reef bearing S. 34° W., and the beacon
on d Reef bearing S. 56° E.
Night Island. The reef off the N.W. end of this island, of
which a notice was issued from this office in December, 1887,
has been found, on examination, to consist of a small de-
tached reef, its outer or north-western edge lying N.W. W.
3 cables from the northernmost mangroves of Night Island.
The main reef extends 2 cables northward of the island,
but all dangers may be cleared and a good berth be picked
up off the Sandy Beach by keeping No. IX. Island its own
breadth open to the westward of Night Island.
Shoal and Rock near No. X., Claremont Island. A bank
with 21 fathoms on its western edge lies 8 cables E. by N.
from this island, and extends thence for more than a mile,
with patches carrying 4 and 5 fathoms.
At 1.9 miles E.N.E. from the island is a coral rock with
only 5ft. of water over it at low-water springs.