HARBOUR.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 3, Issue 130, 17 March 1860, Page 2

HARBOUR.

14. No ballast or rubbish shall be thrown overboard, except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out ; and any person offending against this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 15. No timber, firewood, or any bulky articles shall be left on any public landing place, or on any Government Reserve, longer than fourteen days ; and any person offending against this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 16. Any person removing, injuring, or destroying any buoy, beacon, or sea mark, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds. 17. Any person or persons removing stone, shingle, or any part of the soil below high water mark, inside the Harbour, without the permission of the Harbour Master, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds. 18. The master of every vessel arriving with gunpowder on board, exceeding fifty pounds weight, shall give immediate notice to ,the pilot on his boarding such vessel, and shall land the same at a place appointed for that purpose by the Superintendent, before entering the Eastern Harbour, under a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 19. Masters of vessels are prohibited from firing guns in the Harbour, except in cases of distress, and any person offending against this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding iive pounds. 20. The master of any ship or vesse), or person in charge, refusing or neglecting to remove his

vessel when desired by tho Harbour master, or obstructing him. in the discharge of such duty, shall be liable to a penalty not exc<^|pg ten pounds.

21. The master of every vessel shall anchor or moor where the Harbour master or pilot may direct, and he shall not quit such anchorage until due notice be given to the Harbour Master, and any Master offending against this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

22. After a vessel has been unloaded and properly ballasted, it will be at the option of the Harbour Master to remove her out clear of the shipping, to make room for vessels requiring berths to unload ; and if there shall not be on board any vessel, which has been unloaded, sufficient men or ballast, or requisite tackle, to enable her to be removed, the Harbour Master or Pilot may remove such Vessel at the expense and risk of the owner thereof.

23. Any person obstructing or impeding the navigation of any channel, or creek, or obstructing any public landing place, by placing .a vessel, cable, boat, warp, or other article in the way, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds ; and, in case any person causing such obstruction, or impediment shall refuse or neglect to remove, or cause to be removed, the same, when required so to do by the Harbour M aster or PiLot, the Harbour Master or Pilot may cast off or cut such obstruction.

2-1. Any person who makes any vessel, boat, timber, or other article fast to any buoy, beacon, or sea mark, and any Master or owner of a vessel being navigated without having a Pilot on board, or the owner of any boat, by which such buoy, beacon, or sea mark is accidentally removed, injured, or destroyed, who does not forthwith make good such damage, or pay to the Harbour Master a sum sufficient to cover the expenses of so doing, shall for every such offence, forfeit a penalty not; exceeding Twenty Pounds. 25. Whenever a Vessel, not employed in coasting only, arrives •within the harbour, the Harbour Master shall appoint the place where she is to cast anchor, or be moored, and as often as the Master of any vessel is desirous of removing her from one place to another, lie shall notify such his desire to the Harbour Master, who shall thereupon, unless he sees sufficient reason to the contrary the removal accordingly ; and the Master may remove any vessel, timber, or other article from any berth, alongside any Wharf or elsewhere, or from or to auy part of the Harbour, whenever such 3'emoval is, in the opinion of the Harbour Master, desirable and proper for the general accommodation of the Shipping.

26. Id the performance of any sucli service as aforesaid, by the Harbour Master, the Master of, the vessel and the crew thereof are required to give and afford to such Harbour Master all possible aid, and assist to effect the same ; and in effecting any such service or any other service in the execution of his duty, the Harbour Master is empowered to make fast and attach any rope, or other tackle to any other vessel ; and if there is no crew of the vesscd ta bo removed, or fciio crew thereof refuse or fail to aid and assist a3 aforesaid, or if the crew, or tackle, or quantity of ballast on board of such vessel is not sufficient to enable the Harbour Master to effect such removal, he is empowered to hire and employ such other assistance and tackle, and to purchase and put on board such. vessel such other quantity of ballast as to him seems requisite, at the cost or charge of the master or owner of such vessel, and such cost or charge such master or owner is required to pay to the Harbour Master ; and if any person, without the consent or authority of the Harbour Master, cuts or casts off any such rope or tackle so made fast and attached to any other vessel, as aforesaid, or in any other manner infringes this Regulation, such person shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds. 27. No pitch, tar, rosin, or other combustible matter shall be lighted or heated on board any vessel or boat, whilst lying alongside or near any wharf or vessel in the Harbour ; and any person who shall offend against this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds, 28. Any person throwing into the Harbour, or placing any dead animal above low water mark within the limits of the pilot station, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5; and to an additional penally of £1 for every day during which such animal remains in the Harbour, or above low water mark, or unburied on the beach above high water mark. Provided that no such penalty and additional penalty shall together exceed the sum of Twenty Pounds, 29. Every master or officer of a ship or vessel to ■whom a copy of the Harbour Regulations shall have been delivered, shall give, on demand, an acknowledgment thereof to the Harbour Master Pilot, or other authorised person delivering the same ; and any master or officer of such ship or vessel refusing to give on demand such acknowledgment, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding Five Pounds. 30. !N"o Waterman or other pei'son in charge of any boat shall go alongside, or board, or suffer or permit any person to board any vessel arriving at any port from beyond sea, until such vessel is properly secured at her anchorage ; and any person offending against this Regulation shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Five Pounds. . Provided that this Regulation shall not be construed to prevent the boarding of any such vessel by the owner or agent, or any other person having the written permission of the owner or agent, or by any Immigration Agent, Pilot, Boarding Officer,. Officer of Customs, or Health Officer, or any other person acting in the execution of his duty.

Thomas db Qttincey expired in Edinburgh on Thursday morning, the Bth December — one of the most remarkable men of the age. His works Lave never been, and never will be, the subject of a wide and sounding popularity j but the unanimous testimony of cultivated and capable judges has pronounced him one of those men who give character to a literary epoch. As a master of the English language, Mr. de Quincey's reputation will long survive. His style was rich and copious, without ever verging on the florid, and his mind seems to have united the two qualities not often found together, of logical precision arid poetio : fancy. ■■. ' . ■ /■'.. '■.:: "'■ .I/..," .;. ■•■

Sam Smok on the G-eeat Easteen. — Judge Hajiburton endorses the opinion expressed of the character of the Gfreat Eastern's saloon. In his "misdirected letters" in the Constitutional Press, he introduces the following conversation — " Dove," sais I, " this is a great ship, aint it?" "She is big enough," sais he, quite cool. "Fast as the wind," Bais I. "Well, not unlike the wind," he said, " onsartin and not to be depended upon." "Take a large cargo?" " Yes, a prodigious heap of coals to feed her*" "Grand spec, aint she?" "Well, yes, a large speck on the ocean ; see her at a considerable distance." "She will pay well, her capacity is so great." "P'rhapsso; she has more capacity than her owners, and ought to pay well, for she has done nothing but pay out yet." " Where will you see such a splendid gilt saloon as that of hern." " Well, the House of Lords and the whiskey palace are in as good taste as that is." "But isn't there a splendiferous mirror in it ?" "As an ornament to an Atlantic hotel, I approbate it firstrate ; but it will cause every mother's son of the passengers sea-sick ; everything will appear to be in motion, and when she rolls they wnl seem to be turned topsy-turvey. There is no part of the arrangement as cheap and perfect as that ; their fare will cost nothing." — European Times.

EeCOTEET OF GoiD BY DIYEES IEOM THE Weeok of the Royai Chaetee. — It was not till the divers succeeded m lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship, off the spot where it had fallen, that they came to the gold. The bullion chest they found had suffered the same fate as the ship, and was literally smashed to atoms, and its contents scattered in all directions. Up to the 15th December the divers had been down three and four Hours every time ; their operations were most successful. All the gold has been sent to London, and deposited in the bank of England. It is assumed that the unfortunate passengers had •with them a large amount of gold, probably 10,000 ounces or more, which had got mixed with the contents of the bullion chest, and by this it appears not improbable. The divers report that the ground about where the stern of the ship lies is rich with gold-dust, and must be dug up and sent to London to be properly washed.

The Tabajsxki Disttjebajtoes. — It is not without pain that we express the opinion, that the worst thing that could happen at the present juncture, would be that the whole should ' end in smoke ' : — that is, that the turbulent chiefs should remain passive in the presence of her Majesty's forces, giving no handle for interference, in order to re-commence the game of hindrance to European occupation as soon as those forces should be withdrawn. The occasion suggests reflections of the gravest moment. If we are ever to curb the wildness of their passions — for their own sake as •well as our own, the present moment, unless the Maori chief be too wily for us, is apparently the time. If it must be the sooner the better, were it only for the sake of putting an end to the frequent bloodshed among themselves — for the sake of obtaining power to put down with a high hand, that practice of cold-blooded murder which English, law has hitherto' been impotent to avenge. — Southern Cross.