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(a) For breach of any provision of these bye-laws or regulations framed for the purpose of preventing the overloading of steam or sailing vessels, any sum not exceeding five hundred pounds for any one voyage or attempted voyage of any vessel.

(b) For breach of any provision of these bye-laws or regulations framed for the purpose of preventing the overcrowding of sailing vessels with passengers, any sum not exceeding five hundred pounds for any one voyage or attempted voyage, to be computed at a rate not exceeding five pounds for every passenger carried by any sailing vessel in excess of the numbers by these bye-laws authorised.

(c) For breach of any other provision of these bye-laws or regulations, any sum not exceeding fifty pounds.

SCHEDULE.

A.

Voyages which shall be reckoned as of one day’s duration when made by sailing craft:—

1. From port to port, within Cook and Foveaux Straits, when the distance does not exceed fifty miles.

2. From port to port, on the west coast of the Middle Island, when the distance does not exceed twenty-five miles.

3. From port to port, on the west coast of the North Island, or on the east of either island, or of Stewart’s Island, when the distance does not exceed fifty miles.

B.

All voyages not included within the above limits, shall, for the purposes of these bye-laws, be held to be of more than one day’s duration.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

In exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby declare and appoint that, on and from the day of the date hereof, the wharf at the foot of Jetty street, in the town of Dunedin, known as “Jetty Street Wharf,” and the wharf at foot of Rattray street, in the town of Dunedin, known as “Rattray Street Wharf,” shall be deemed and taken to be legal quays or landing places, at the Port of Dunedin, for the lading and unlading of goods under “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858.”

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. C. Richmond.

Governor’s Office,
No. 85.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1868.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Registrars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the districts set opposite their names respectively, as defined in proclamation of this day’s date, and published in this Gazette. These appointments to take effect on and from the first day of August next, viz.:—

Henry Aldborough Stafford, Esq., Nokomai and Switzers.
James Roy, Esq., Popotunou.
George Neish, Esq., Tapanui.

E. W. Stafford.

Treasury,
Wellington, 24th June, 1868.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of Frederick J. Moss, Esq., as Trustee of the Savings Bank, Dunedin.

John Hall.

In exercise of the power in me vested for this purpose by “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,” I, the Commissioner of Customs, do hereby appoint that the wharf situate at the foot of Stuart street, in the town of Dunedin, and known as “Stuart Street Wharf,” shall be a Sufferance Wharf for the lading and unlading of goods, the produce of the Colony of New Zealand, under the provisions of “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858.”

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. C. Richmond.

Commissioner’s Order, No. 20.]

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