May 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 837

3. The width of tires of all vehicles upon the said road, whether plying for hire or not, shall bear the following proportion to the number of animals employed to draw the same, that is to say:—

4. If any person shall commit a breach of any of the foregoing by-laws, he shall be liable, upon conviction for such breach, to a penalty of £5: Provided that the Court before which proceedings may be taken in respect of such breach may, if it think fit, impose such lower penalty as it may think adequate to the particular case.

As witness my hand, this twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice to Mariners, No. 12 of 1896.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 16th May, 1896.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, are published for general information.

J. G. WARD.

REPORTED SHOAL OFF SANDY CAPE.

NOTICE is hereby given that a small shoal, with about 3 fathoms over it at low-water spring tides, is reported to exist approximately N. 53° E., twenty-two miles from Sandy Cape Lighthouse. An examination of the locality will be made at an early date.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 2nd April, 1896.

KEPPEL BAY.—GAS-BUOY AT TIMANDRA BANK.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, on or about the 15th July, 1896, to replace the buoy now marking the Timandra Bank by an illuminated gas-buoy carrying a fixed white light.

The superstructure of the gas-buoy will be 10ft. above the level of the sea, and the light will be visible from a vessel’s deck in clear weather at a distance of about three miles.

A further notice will be issued giving the precise date on which this buoy will be placed in position.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 1st April, 1896.

NORTH-WEST CHANNEL, MORETON BAY.—NEW LIGHTHOUSE, LIGHT TOWERS, ILLUMINATED AND OTHER BUOYS.

Caloundra Lighthouse.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, on or about the 15th July, 1896, to exhibit from a new circular tower, painted white, a fixed light of the fourth order dioptric, showing a white light between the bearings of south through west to north 60° west, red from north 60° west to north 29° west, and white between north 29° west and north 22° west. The two latter sectors are intensified.

This lighthouse is situated about 8 cables to the westward of Caloundra Head. The focal plane is 170ft. above high water, and the light will be visible from a vessel’s deck in clear weather at a distance of sixteen miles.

Leading-lights, Bribie Island.

The leading-lights on Bribie Island will be exhibited from skeleton towers, painted white.

From the back tower (high light) a powerful biform holophotal light will be shown between the bearings of south 67° west and south 45° west. The tower is 95ft. above high water, and the light will be visible from a vessel’s deck in clear weather at a distance of fourteen miles.

From the front tower (low light) a fixed light of the fourth order dioptric will be exhibited, and will be shown between the bearings of south 14° west and south 77° west and between north 46° west and north 40° west. The tower is 56ft. above high water, and the light will be visible from a vessel’s deck in clear weather at a distance of twelve miles.

Both sectors of this light are intensified.

Buoys.

The black buoys now marking the south-western extreme of the Spitfire and the eastern extreme of the Salamander Banks will be replaced by illuminated gas-buoys with a fixed white light.

The red buoy now marking the northern extreme of the Western Banks will also be replaced by an illuminated gas-buoy carrying an occulting white light.

The superstructures of the gas-buoys will be 10ft. above the level of the sea, and the lights will be visible from a vessel’s deck in clear weather at a distance of about three miles.

On a line north-west ⅚ north from Spitfire Bank Buoy, on the following bearings, three black buoys will be placed to mark the eastern side of the North-west Channel :—

Northern Buoy (in 8 fathoms of water)—
Caloundra Light, N.W. by N. ⅛ W.
Mount Beerwah, W. ½ S.

Middle Buoy (in 7 fathoms of water)—
Caloundra Light, N.W. by N.
Mount Beerwah, W. ⅓ N.

Southern Buoy (in 10 fathoms of water)—
Caloundra Light, N.W. ⅔ N.
Mount Beerwah, W. ¾ N.

A further notice with regard to these lights and buoys, with directions for their use, will be issued when the channel is available for navigation by night.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 1st April, 1896.

Tonnage Measurement of German Ships.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th May, 1896.

THE following despatch and its enclosure, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

T. THOMPSON,
For Minister of Marine.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 11th March, 1896.

Sir,—With reference to Lord Knutsford’s circular despatch of the 13th August, 1889, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the colony under your government, copies of an Order of the Queen in Council, dated the 22nd February last, respecting the tonnage measurement of ships of the German Empire.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the 22nd day of February, 1896.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council, dated the 23rd day of July, 1889, made by Her Majesty in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by “The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862,” Her Majesty was 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 German Empire the measurement whereof after the 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 tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of British sailing-ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships.