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New Zealander, Volume XV, Issue 1358, 23 April 1859, Page 2 (Supplement)

places at which you have touched, or on board of any vessel witli which you have had communication? If so, state when and where? Answer. 8. In the course of your voyage, have any persons on board suffered from sickness of any kind? What was the nature of such sickness, and when did it prevail? How many persons were affected by it, and have any of them died in the course of the voyage? Answer. 9. What number of officers, mariners, and passengers, have you on board? Answer. 10. What was the whole number of persons on board your vessel when you sailed? Answer. 11. What is the whole number of persons now ill on board your vessel? Answer. 12. If their be no sickness now on board, when did the last attack of disease appear, and when did it entirely disappear? Answer. lII.—HARBOUR. 1. The Master of every vessel shall anchor or moor where the Harbour Master or 1 ilot may direct, and he shall not unmoor or quit the anchorage until notice be given in writing at the Harbour Master’s Office; and any Master offending against this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. 2. All vessels moored or at anchor are to have both cables clear and in readiness to slack away when required, and in default thereof the master shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 3. All vessels must have buoys and buoyropes to their anchors to show their position*, and when at anchor must hoist a constant bright light at their peak-end from dark to daylight, and in default thereof, the Master shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 4. Any anchor, kedge, or cable slipped or cut from, if not weighed within twenty-four hours, may be weighed by order of the Harbour Master or Pilot, at the risk and expense of the owner; and when no buoy-rope has been attached, the anchor, kedge, or cable shall be forfeited. 5. 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 such vessel 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. 6. Any vessel whose time at a discharging bertk alongside any public wharf has expired, or which the Harbour Master or Pilot considers necessary to remove, must be removed on the request in writing of the Harbour Master or Pilot made to the Master or other person on board in charge; and any person offending against this regulation shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds; and if there be not sufficient men or ballast, or requisite tackle oh board of such vessel to enable her to be removed, she may be removed by the Harbour Master or Pilot, at the risk and expense of the owner. 7. Any person obstructing or impeding the navigation of any channel, river, inlet, or creek, or any public landing place, by placing a vessel, boat, cable, 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 will not remove or cause to be removed the same, when ordered by the Harbour Master or Pilot, the Harbour Master or Pilot may cast off or cut such obstruction. 8. The Harbour Master or Pilot, or other person deputed by either of them in the execution of their duty, is empowered to make fast any rope or tackle to any vessel, and any Master or pincipal Officer or other person on board such vessel refusing or neglecting to aid in such making fast, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 9. The Harbour Master, or any person deputed by him, may order any ship, lighter, boat, timber, or other article to be removed from any beith alongside any public wharf, or any anchorage from or to any part of the Harbour, when such removal shall, in his opinion, be requisite for the accommodation of the shipping. 10. Any person, without due authority, re sisting, impeding, or obstructing the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other person deputed by either of them, in the execution of his duty, or using threatening or abusive language to them, or any of them, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds. 11. Any vessel arriving, having on board a mail, shall, on approaching the usual anchorage, hoist a white flag at the foremost head, and keep the same flying until the mail is landed; and in default thereof, the Master shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty pounds. 12. All goods or articles landed on any public wharf, are to be placed so as to keep the mooring posts and rings free, and allow a clear passage of at least eight feet from the edge of the wharf; and any person offending against this regulation shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding £5. 13. No timber or bulky article is to be left on any public wharf or landing -place, and any person infringing this regulation shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds; and any timber or any other article left on any public wharf or lauding place, if not removed at the request of the Harbour Master, or person authorised by him, may bo removed at the risk and expense of the owner or consignee thereof. 14. No rubbish or filth is to be landed on any land belonging to the Crown except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out, under a penalty not exceeding £5, to be j paid by the person landing the same. 15. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, or filth is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat, but is to be landed at such place as the Harbour Master may direct, and proper taupaulings are to be used in discharging or taking in ballast, coals, rubbish, gravel, earth, or filth of any kind so as to prevent any part thereof falling into the Harbour; and any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this regulation shall bo liable to a penalty not exceeding £2O. IG. No pitch, tar, resin, or combustible matter, shall be lighted or heated on board any vessel or boat while lying alongside or near any wharf or vessel in the Harbour; and any person who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable to any penalty not exceeding £2O. 17. No wreck is to be left stranded in any part of the Harbour, but must be conveyed on shore above high water mark, and if any wreck is so