STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 199, 20 March 1868, Page 2

STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

To prevent as far as possible collisions at sea, and to put masters of vessels in mind of " the rules of the road," the following aids to memory have been puhlishcd.by the AssistantSecretary to the Board of Trade, London : TWO STEAMSHIPS MEETING. Meeting steamers, do not dread When yon sec three lights ahead — Port yonr helm and show your red. TWO STEAMSHirS TASSIN(i. Green to Green, or Bed to lied — Perfect safety—Go ahead ! TWO STEAMsIIII?S CROSSING. If lo your starboard Jiod appear, It is your duly to keep ckuv ; To act as judgment says is proper —

To port, or starboard—back, or stop liar ; But when upon your port is seen A steamer's starboard light of Green, There's not so much for you to do. The Green light must keep clear of you. GENERAL CAUTION, .Both iii safety and in doubt, Always keep a good look-out j In danger, with no room to turn, Easo her! stop her ! go astern ! WIIAIIFAGIS AND TONNAGE RATES IN HOKITIKA. In the exercise of the powers delegated to the lion John llull, Esq., he has gazetted the following schedule of charges to be levied upon goods " landed upon the parcel of ground known as Gibson's Quay" : Bran, one shilling per 60 bushels. Bricks, three shillings per 1000. Carrots, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Coals, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Chaff, two shillings per 2240 lbs. Cattle, two shillings and sixpence per head. Dairy Produce, bacon, beef, &c, one shilling per 2210 lbs. Flour, one shilling per 2000 lbs. Fruit (green), one shilling and sixpence per ton measurement. Grain, one shilling per 40 bushels. Ilorscs, two shillings and sixpence each. Lime, one shilling per 2210 lbs. Machinery, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Mangoldwurtzel, one shilling per 22401 bs. Onions, one shillings per 2250 lbs. Potatoes, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Poultry, free. Palings, two shillings per 1000. Sawn timber, threepence per 100 super ficial feet. Shingles, sixpence per 1000. Sheep and pigs, twopence each. Slates, three shillings per 1000. Turnips, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Vehicles (two-wheeled), two shilling? and sixpence each. Vehicles (four-wheeled), five shillings each. All other goods, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Transit Shed. (Tn addition to the above charges.) On goods landed at the Transit Shod, and left there for a longer time than twenty-four hours, for every week or part of a week, a rent of two shillings per ton. On all goods brought to the Transit Shed from other parts of the wliarf to be stored— Receiving, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Delivering, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Rent, for every week or part of a week, two shillings per ton.