STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 202, 24 March 1868, Page 2

STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

To prevent as far us possible collisions at pen, and to put masters of vessels in mind of " the rules of the road," the following aids to memory have been published by the AssistantSecretaYy to the Board of Trade, London : TWO STEAMSHIPS MEETING. Meeting steamers, do not dread When you see three lights ahead— Tort your helm and show your red. TWO STEAMSHIPS PASSING. Green to Green, or Red to Red— Perfect safety—Go ahead ! TWO STEAMSHIPS CKOSSINO. •If to your starboard Red appear, It is your duty to keep clear; To act as judgment says is proper — To port, or starboard—back, or stop hor ; 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 in safety and in doubt, Always keep a good look-out; In danger, with no room to turn, Ease her! stop her ! go astern ! WIIARFAGKAN'D TONNAGE RATES IN lIOKTTIKA. In the exercise of the powers delegated to the Hon John Hall, Esq., ho has gaz tted the following schedule of'charges to be levied upon goods "lan-led upmi the prrcel of ground known as Gibson's Quay" :—• Bran, one shilling pur 60 bushels. Bricks, three shillings per 1000.

Carrots, one shilling per 2210 lbs. Couls, one shilling per 2210 lbs. Chaff, two shillings per 2240 lbs. Cattle, two shillings and sixpence per head. Dairy Produce, bacon, beef, &o, one shilling per 2210 lbs. , Flour, one shilling per 2000 lbs. Fruit (green), one shilling aiul sixpence per ton measurement. (.rain, one shilling per 40 bushels. Horses, two shillings and sixpence each. Lime, one shilling per 22 10 lbs. Machinery, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Mangoldwurtzel, one shilling per 22401b5. Onions, one shillings per 2250 lbs. Potatoes, one shilling pier 2240 lbs. Poultry, free. Palings, two shillings per 1000. Sawn timber, threepence per 103 supor fieial feet. Shingles, sixpence per 1000. Sheep and pigs, twopence each. Slates, three shillings per 1000. Turnips, one shilling per 2210 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 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 storedReceiving, 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.