APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 781

General Medical List, New Zealand Volunteers.
Surgeon-Captain Thomas Cahill to be Surgeon-Major. Date of commission, 20th December, 1896.
Surgeon-Captain James Hudson to be Surgeon-Major. Date of commission, 27th January, 1897.
Surgeon-Captain Walter Relf Peerless to be Surgeon-Major. Date of commission, 5th February, 1897.
Surgeon-Captain James McBrearty to be Surgeon-Major. Date of commission, 9th February, 1897.
T. THOMPSON.

Resignation of Volunteer Officer, and Transfer to Honorary Unattached List.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve, under paragraph 262, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of

Captain JOSEPH SUTCLIFFE,
Royal Rifle Volunteers, Marton, being transferred to the Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers, on his resigning the command of that corps, and with effect from the 1st March, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Resignation of Officer, and Transfer to District Reserve Corps.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve, under paragraphs 94 and 97, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of

Captain ARTHUR McCARTNEY,
F Battery, New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers, being transferred to the Wellington District Reserve Corps on resigning the command of the battery, and with effect from the 4th June, 1896.

T. THOMPSON.

Transfer of Volunteer Officer to District Reserve Corps.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve, under paragraphs 94 and 97, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of the transfer of

Lieutenant MICHAEL MARR

from the Royal Rifle Volunteers (Marton) to the Wellington District Reserve Corps as Lieutenant, and with effect from the 1st March, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer:—

Invercargill City Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Peter Hallyburton Miller. Date of resignation, 15th March, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Trustee of Volunteer Hall resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation of

Mr. DAVID FULLERTON

as a Trustee of the Patumahoe Volunteer Hall (Auckland), as from the 16th March, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Rifle Cadet Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept, under paragraph 264, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, the services of the

King’s College Rifle Cadet Volunteers
(Remuera, Auckland), as from the 19th March, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

B

Amended Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th March, 1897.

THE following regulations for preventing collisions at sea, made by Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, on the 27th November, 1896, are published for general information.

These regulations will, in pursuance of the provisions of section 172 of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” come in force in New Zealand on the 1st July, 1897.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister of Marine.

At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of November, 1896.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section 418 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Her Majesty is empowered from time to time on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade by Order in Council to make regulations for preventing collisions at sea: And whereas by section 434 of the said Act Her Majesty is empowered from time to time by Order in Council to make rules as to signals of distress: And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, and expressed to be made in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, Her Majesty was pleased to direct that, on and after the 1st day of September, 1884, the regulations contained in the Schedule thereto (being regulations for preventing collisions at sea and as to signals of distress) should be substituted for the regulations contained in the First Schedule to an Order in Council made under the same Act and on such joint recommendations as aforesaid, and dated the 14th day of August, 1879: And whereas the Admiralty and the Board of Trade have jointly recommended to Her Majesty that the regulations for preventing collisions at sea contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, except the article numbered 10 in such regulations, should, on and after the 1st day of July, 1897, be annulled, and that the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea contained in Schedule I. hereto annexed should, on and after the last-mentioned date, be substituted therefor, with the exception aforesaid, and come into operation as regards British ships and boats: And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that it is expedient that the regulations or rules as to signals of distress contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, should, on and after the 1st day of July, 1897, be annulled, and that the rules as to signals of distress contained in Schedule II. hereto annexed should, on and after the last-mentioned date, be substituted therefor and come into operation as regards British ships and boats: And whereas the provisions of section 1 of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by section 418 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to direct that, on and after the 1st day of July, 1897, the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, except the article numbered 10 in such regulations, shall be annulled, and the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea contained in Schedule I. hereto annexed shall be substituted therefor (with the exception aforesaid) and come into operation as regards British ships and boats.

And Her Majesty is further pleased, by virtue of the power vested in her by section 434 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to direct that, on and after the 1st day of July, 1897, the regulations or rules as to signals of distress contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, shall be annulled, and the rules as to signals of distress contained in Schedule II. hereto annexed shall be substituted therefor and come into operation as regards British ships and boats.

C. L. PEEL.

SCHEDULE I.
Preliminary.

These rules shall be followed by all vessels upon the high seas, and in all waters connected therewith navigable by sea-going vessels.

In the following rules every steam-vessel which is under sail, and not under steam, is to be considered a sailing-vessel, and every vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a steam-vessel.

The word “steam-vessel” shall include any vessel propelled by machinery.