STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 197, 18 March 1868, Page 2

STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

To prevent as far as possible collisions at sea, and to put masters of vessels in mincl of the rules of the road," the following aids to memory have been published by the AssistantSecretary to the Board of Trade, London : TWO STEAMS I [IPS MEETING. Meeting steamers, do not dread When you see three lights ahead— Port your helm and show your red. TWO STEAMSHIPS PASSING. Green to Green, or lied to Rod— Perfect safety—Go ahead ! TWO STEAMSHIPS CROSSING. If to your starboard lied appear, It is your duty to keep clear; To act as judgment says is proper—• To port, or starboard—back, or stop hor ; 15ut 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, Colli in safety and in doubt, Always keep a good look-out; In danger, with 110 room to turn, .Ease her ! stop her ! go astern ! WHARFAGE AND TONNAGE RATES IN lIOKTTIKA. Tll the exercise of the powers delegated to the Hon John Hall, Esq., he has gazetted the following schedule of charges to bo 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 2210 lbs. Coals, one shilling per 2210 lbs. Chaff, two shillings per 2240 lbs. Cattle, two shillings and sixpence per head. Hairy Produce, bacon, beef, &e, ono shilling per 2240 lbs. Flour, one shilling per 2000 lbs. Fruit (green), one shilling and sixpence per ton measurement. Grain, one shilling per 40 bushels. Horses, two shillings and sixpence each. Lime, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Machinery, ono shilling per 2240 lbs. Mangoldwurtzol, one shilling per L'24olbs. Onions, ono shillings per lbs. Potatoes, one shilling per 2210 lb3. Poultry, free. Palings, two shillings per 100!) Sawn timber, threepence per 101 super iiciul feet. I

Shingles, sixpence per 1000, Sheep and pim, twopence each. Slates, three shillings per 1000. Turnips, one shilling per It 10 lbs. Vehicles (two-wheeled), two shillings and sixpence each. Vehicles (four-wheeled), five shillings each. All other goods, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Transit Sticd. (In addition to the above charges.) On goods lauded at the Transit Shed, and left there for a longer time than twenty-four hours, for every week or part of a week, a rent, of two shillings pen 1 ton. On all goods brought to the Transit Shed from other ports of the wharf to be stored— Receiving, one shilling anil sixpence per ton. Delivering, one shilling and sixpence per (on. Kent, for every week or part of a week, two shillings per ton.