New Zealand Gazette – 1895 – No. 21

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✨ Regulations, Notices to Mariners, Military Resignations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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exceeding three months, or by confinement, or by fine not
exceeding 3,000 marks, with or without imprisonment. The
vessel, including its cargo, is liable for the payment of the
fine and the costs of the proceedings, regardless of the
ownership.

Art. 8.—Such license may be forfeited by order of the
issuing officer in charge, if there were to appear sufficient
proof for suspecting that the master or the crew, or any other
person on board the ship have (1) either illegally injured or
otherwise illused any native, (2) or supplied any native with
arms, ammunition, explosives, spirits, or opium contrary to
existing regulations. Besides, in the event of such acts
being qualified as crimes or misdemeanours, judicial pro-
ceedings are to be instituted. Such license may also be
forfeited if the shipmaster does not comply with the regula-
tions of Article 5, alinea 2. The fees paid or deposited are
not to be refunded, neither totally nor partially, after for-
feiting the license. Appeals with regard to forfeited licenses
have to be addressed to the Captain-General; however,
further proceedings are not interrupted pending the result
of such appeal.

Art. 9.—This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st
day of December, 1894.

The directors of the New Guinea Company.

A. V. HANSEMANN, Chairman.
LENT, Member.

Berlin, 25th August, 1894.

TRANSLATION.

Regulations made in pursuance of Articles 2 and 3 of the
Ordinance of 25th August, 1894, for the Protectorate of the
German New Guinea Company, with regard to commercial
dealings and intercourse of shipmasters not resident within
the said Protectorate. In pursuance of the Articles 2 and 3
of the Ordinance of 25th August, 1894, for the Protectorate
of the German New Guinea Company with regard to com-
mercial dealings and intercourse of shipmasters not resident
within the said Protectorate (Ordinance Gazette for 1894,
No. 1, pages 7–11), I hereby issue the following directions:—

I. The said license is issued by the officer in charge at the
port of entry only for a limited district and for a limited
period, and generally for six months. The Captain-General
of the Protectorate defines for the time being the districts to
be opened for foreign trade (Art. 1).

Until further notice the following districts are opened for
foreign trade: (a.) In the north of the said Protectorate:
The northern part of Kaiser Wilhelmsland, extending as far
as Cape Croisilles in the south, and including the adjacent
islands, viz.: The Purdy and Admiralty Groups, St. Matthias,
and Squally Island. However, the Hermit, Anchorite, and
L'Echiquier Groups are reserved. (b.) In the south of the
said Protectorate: The southern part of Kaiser Wilhelms-
land, extending as far as Cape Rigny in the north, with the
islands of the Vitiaz and Dampier Straits, the principal part
of New Pomerania, extending as far as Hixon and Henry
Read Bay respectively in the east, including the adjacent
islands, viz.: The islands Choiscul and Ysabel. However,
the Gazelle Peninsula, New Mecklenburg, New Hanover,
Buka, and Bougainville, with the adjacent islands—viz., the
Fead, Nissan, Carteret, Mortlock, Tasman, and Lord Howe
Group—also the isles of the Bougainville Straits, are re-
served.

II. The fee paid for such license is charged according to
the tonnage of the vessel, viz.: For vessels of 50 register
tons or under, a fee of 150 marks; for vessels of more than
50 tons, for every additional 25 tons or part thereof, an
additional fee of 50 marks, but not exceeding 1,000 marks
for any vessel. Licenses may be issued for a longer term
than six months, but not exceeding one year; in such cases
the fees are increased in proportion. The dispositions of the
Ordinance of 13th January, 1887, permitting the pursuit of
certain trades only after obtaining the consent of the Captain-
General, and under observation of the restrictions imposed
by him, are to remain in force. However, the Captain-
General may in future authorise other officers to grant such
licenses in his place.

The licenses mentioned in Articles 1–3 of the Ordinance
with regard to the pursuit of certain trades within the
Protectorate of the German New Guinea Company, dated
the 13th January to the 2nd February, 1887 (Ordinance
Gazette for 1887, No. 3, page 10ff), are issued by the same
officer in charge who issues the trading license to the
petitioner.

FRIEDRICH WILHELMSHAFEN,
The Captain-General.

For the Protectorate of the New Guinea Company.
SCHMIELE.

16th October, 1894.

Notice to Mariners, No. 9 of 1895.

BEEF BARRELS (PIÈGE) ROCKS, FRENCH PASS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 20th March, 1895.

DURING the recent survey of the Beef Barrels Reef
(Piège) Current Basin, French Pass, by Mr. Per-
ham, C.E., foul ground has been discovered in a S.W. by S.
direction and in a S.E. by E. direction from the western
rock of the Beef Barrels above water. These two patches of
foul ground extend from the said rock three cables' length,
in the shape of two arms, in the direction above stated.
The depth of water on the foul ground is from 1 to 5
fathoms, from the rock towards the mainland. A buoy,
painted red, has been placed a quarter mile S. by W. a
quarter W. of the western Beef Barrel, and this buoy is
moored midway between the two patches of foul ground,
which are five cables apart, and is one cable's length south
of a line running E. by N. and W. by S., connecting the
extreme patches of foul ground. To avoid these dangers,
vessels are recommended not to pass anything to the north-
ward of midway between the Beef Barrels and the main-
land.

W. P. REEVES,
For Minister of Marine.

Designation of Volunteer Corps changed.