THE HARBOR REGULATIONS.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1722, 10 September 1862, Page 4

THE HARBOR REGULATIONS.

To the Editor of the New' Zealander.

Sir, —Is it not a breach of the harbor regulations of this port that vessels should leave the harbor on the Sunday? Last Sunday' morning at 10 o’clock the steamer Queen left her moorings alongside the wharf, and proceeded on her voyage. To say the least, the traffic occasioned on the wharf and in the public streets by the departure of the steamer on the Sunday morning was most unseemly, and the facility it affords to unprincipled debtors'to fly their creditors, and snap their fingers in the faces of their victims, is a crying injury on the commercial portion of this community. A man may take his passage on Saturday afternoon or evening, too late for a creditor to obtain a warrant; even if he did possess, he could not serve upon a Sunday. I have heard it said that the order to sail on that day had been received from the Postmaster; but surely laws, if there are any on the subject, were made as much for the Government as the people. I trust you will call the attention of shippers to the evil which a persistence in such a course entails upon our trading community. Yours, &c., A Victim. [We have consulted the Harbor Regulations for the port of Auckland and reprint clause 6, sect. 2 of the same as a caution to masters of vessels—“ No vessel shall be unmoored on Sunday from her anchorage, or from her berth alongside any quay or wharf, except the state of the weather or the safety of the vessel renders it necessary, without the express permission in writing from the port-master or harbor-master, under a penalty not exceeding £lO.” — Ed. N.Z.]

To the Editor of the New Zealander. Sir, —Mr. H. EL Brown, of Taranaki, has, it appears, written to Rev. Canon Stowell remarks upon a letter from, as he conjectures, Rev. Mr. Venn, the object of which is to shew how little “ reliance can be placed upon his authority with regard to affairs at the antipodes.” It would be in no way's a matter of surprise if a writer in the antipodes should fall into matters of detail respecting persons and things s*-’ {C sote ; but it is strange that a gentleman living on tlifspot would not take pains to inform himself accurately before he brought his reiterated charges against the Church Missionary body of publishing the pamphlets he complains of. He "might with as much justice complain of their publishing the Ttira.na.hi Herald, I am, sir, &c. A Subscriber.