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43. Sailing vessels and ships having the wind fair

shall give way to ships on a wind.

44. When two ships are going by the wind,

the ship on the starboard tack shall keep her wind, and the one on the port tack bear up, thereby passing each other on the port hand.

45. When two ships have the wind large or a-beam, and meet, they shall pass each other in the same way on the port hand, the helm of each being put a-port.

Gunpowder.

46. The Master of every vessel arriving with Gunpowder on board, exceeding fifty pounds in weight, shall give immediate notice thereof to the Pilot on his boarding the vessel, and shall land the same at the Powder Magazine before anchoring at the usual anchorage ground, or forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

47. No Gunpowder is to be either received or issued by the Keeper of the Magazine, except between the hours of seven in the morning and five in the afternoon.

48. The Master of every vessel shall cause all Gunpowder to be conveyed to the Magazine immediately after its being landed, or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

49. All Gunpowder so landed shall be packed in barrels containing not more than one hundred weight each, closely joined and hooped without any iron about the packages, and so secure that no portion of the Gunpowder be in danger of being scattered in the passage, and any person offending against this regulation shall incur a penalty of any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

50. Nothing contained in these Regulations shall be deemed to apply to any Ship, Boat, or Gunpowder, the property of Her Majesty, nor to any Ship of War of any Foreign Nation, nor to any Gunpowder in charge of the Government of the Colony.

Power to Resident Magistrate in certain cases.

51. The Resident Magistrate at any Port for which no Harbor Master is appointed shall have all such powers as are hereinbefore given to Harbor Masters.

All penalties hereby imposed shall be recoverable in a summary way.

NOTE.—Provision has been made for the application to this Colony of the Passengers’ Act, 1855 (18 and 19 Victoria, cap. 119), by Proclamation dated the 19th day of March, 1856.

SIGNALS AT THE FLAGSTAFF; OTAGO HEADS.

Blue Peter—Keep to sea, the Bar is not fit to take.

Red Flag—Take the Bar, there is no danger.

Blue, with a White St. Andrew’s cross—Ebb tide, and Bar fit to take.

White Flag—First quarter Flood.

The following Signals are in use at the Port.

Pilot—The Union Jack at the fore.

Customs Boat—The Union Jack at the peak.

Gunpowder on Board—The Union Jack at the main.

Medical Assistance—The Union Jack over the Ensign at the peak.

Government Emigrants on Board—Ensign at the mizen mast head.

Mails on board—White flag at the fore.

Boarding Officer—Blue flag at the main.

Clearing Officer—White flag at the main.

Police—The Ensign at the main.

Do. at night—Two lights vertical at the peak, having five feet between the two.

INSPECTORS OF SLAUGHTER-HOUSES APPOINTED.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 29th Oct., 1862.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him, he has appointed the several members of the Police Force of the Province of Otago, hereinafter named, to be Inspectors of Slaughter Houses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter within the respective Slaughter House Districts set above their names:—

TUAPEKA DISTRICT.

Heber Hewson, vice John M’Nally, transferred.

CLUTHA DISTRICT.

Francis Bullen, vice Thomas Blatch, discharged.

TOKOMAIRIRO DISTRICT.

Thomas Melanophy, vice Francis Bullen, transferred.

By Order,

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary