STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 200, 21 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 beeV published by the AssistantSecretary to the Board of Trade, London : TWO STEAMSHIPS MEETING. Meeting steamers, do not dread When you see three lights ahead— Port your helm and show jour red. TWO -STEAMSTIirS PASSING. Green to Green, or Bed to Bed— Perfect safety—Go ahead ! TWO STEAMSHIPS CKOSHTXO. If to your starboard Bed appear, It is your duty to keep clear; To act as judgment says, is proper— To part, or starboard—back, or stop hor ;

But wlieu 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. GENEHAL CAUTION, Both in safety and in doubt, Always keep a good look-out; In danger, with no room to turn, Ease her ! stop her ! go astern ! WITAIIFAGE AND TONNAGE RATES IN HOKITIKA. In the exercise of the powers delegated to the Hon John Hall, Esq., he lias 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 GO bushels. Bricks, threo 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, &e, 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. Horses, two shillings and sixpence each. Lime, one shilling per 2210 lbs. Machinery, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Mangoldwui'tzel, one shilling per 22401b5. 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 2210 lbs. Vehicles (two-wlieeled), two shillings and sixpence each. Vehicles (four-wheeled), five shillings each. All other goods, one shilling and- sixpence per ton. Transit Shed. (In addition to the above charges.) On goods landed 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 per ton. On all goods brought to the Transit Shed from other parts of the wharf 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.