Dec. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1495

said to a proposal to borrow a sum of six hundred pounds to extend the water-supply of the said Borough of Cromwell, and to repay costs already incurred in temporarily carrying water across the River Clutha to the said borough, have been duly taken, and that the resolution of the burgesses of the said borough in favour of the proposal has been duly carried.

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

DAVID ANDERSON JOLLY,
Mayor.

Declared at Cromwell aforesaid, this 18th day of December, 1891, in the presence of—William T. Talboys, J.P.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Notice to Mariners, No. 44 of 1891.

NEW RIVER, FOVEAUX STRAIT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 21st December, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that, owing to the shifting of the sandspit at the entrance to the New River from the bar as far up as the Bombay Rock, the channel is so narrowed that masters of vessels should not attempt to beat in or out, but should wait for a leading wind.

JOHN McKENZIE,
For the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.

Regulations for the Examination of Engineers.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th December, 1891.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth sections of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” I do hereby make the following regulations for the conduct of Examinations of Engineers, and as to the qualifications of applicants, and direct that the fees specified therein shall be paid to the Collectors of Customs at the ports where the applications are made. These regulations shall come into force on the first day of February next, and shall then supersede any rules or regulations heretofore existing and affecting such examinations, qualifications, and fees.

JOHN McKENZIE,
For the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.

PRELIMINARY.

1. Under the provisions of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” no Foreign-going Ship or Home Trade Ship can legally proceed to sea from any port in the colony unless, in the case of a Foreign-going Steamship of 100 nominal horse-power or upwards, the First and Second Engineers are Certificated Engineers—the first possessing a “First-class Engineer’s Certificate,” and the Second possessing a “Second-class Engineer’s Certificate,” or a Certificate of the higher grade; and in the case of a Foreign-going Steamship of less than 100 nominal horse-power, or a Sea-going Home Trade Steamship, the first or only engineer (as the case may be) have obtained and possess a “Second-class Engineer’s Certificate,” or a certificate of the higher grade.

2. Every person who, having been engaged to serve as First or Second Engineer in a Foreign-going Steamship of 100 nominal horse-power and upwards, or as First or Only Engineer in a Foreign-going Steamship of less than 100 nominal horse-power, or in a Sea-going Home Trade Passenger Steamship, goes to sea as such First, Second, or Only Engineer, without being at the time entitled to and possessed of such a Certificate as the Act requires, or who employs any person as First or Second Engineer in a Foreign-going Steamship of 100 nominal horse-power and upwards, or as First or Only Engineer in a Foreign-going Steamship of less than 100 nominal horse-power, or a Sea-going Home Trade Passenger Steamship without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to and possessed of such Certificate, for each offence incurs a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

3. The Certificates of Engineers are of two descriptions—viz., Certificates of Competency and Certificates of Service; and of each description of Certificate there are two grades—viz., “First-class Engineers’ Certificates” and “Second-class Engineers’ Certificates.”

4. Certificates of Competency will be granted to those persons who pass the requisite examinations, and otherwise comply with the requisite conditions. For this purpose Examiners have been appointed and arrangements have been made for holding the examinations.

5. The application for examination is to be made on Form Exn. 3, which must be filled up at a Mercantile Marine Office (Customhouse). The Exn. 3 properly filled in, together with the Candidate’s Indentures of Apprenticeship, testimonials, and discharges, must be lodged with the Examiner of Engineers not later than the day before the day of Examination.

6. Applicants will be required to produce, in addition to the usual Forms of Discharge, satisfactory testimonials as to sobriety, experience, ability, and general good conduct for at least the twelve months immediately preceding the date of application to be examined, and without producing them no person will be examined. If the service has been on shore the testimonials must be signed by an Employer; if at sea by the Master and Chief Engineer.

7. In cases where a testimonial from the Chief Engineer, or from the Master, is for any sufficient reason not obtainable, one may be submitted from the Superintending Engineer in place of that of the Chief Engineer, and one from the Managing Owner, or Secretary, or Chairman of a large Company, in place of that of the Master, but in every such instance the testimonial must declare that the facts stated are in accordance with the reports made by the Chief Engineer or the Master, as the case may be, or else that the facts are within the writer’s personal knowledge.

8. The testimonials of servitude of Foreigners and of British seamen serving in foreign vessels, which cannot be verified, must be confirmed either by the Consul of the country to which the ship in which the candidate served belonged, or by some other recognised official authority of that country; or by the testimony of some credible person on

• By a Home Trade Ship is meant one which is employed in trading on the coasts of New Zealand, but not to or from the Chatham Islands, the Auckland Islands, or Campbell Island. By a Foreign-going Ship is meant every ship not included in the term Home Trade Ship.