STEERING AND SAILING RULES.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 210, 2 April 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 published by the AssistantSecretary to the Board of Trade, London : 'TWO STEAMSHIPS MEETING. Meeting steamcrd, do not dread When-you sec three lights ahead— Port your helm and show your red. • TWO STEAMSHIPS PASSING. (1 reen to Green, or Red to Red — Perfect safety—Go ahead ! ' TWO STEAMSHIPS CKOSSINO. If to your starboard Red appc it, it. is your duty to keep nlonr; To ant as judgment suys is proper— To port, or starboard—back, or stop'hor ; But when upon your port is seen A si earner's starboard light of Greor:, There's not so much for you to do. The Green light niustkeep cliur of you.

WIIAHFAGKAND TONNAGE RATES IN HOKITIKA. In the exorcise of tlio powers delegated to llie Hon John Hall, Esq., lie has gazetted tlio following schedule of charges to bo levied upon goods " landed upon the parcel of ground known ns 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 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, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Mangoldwurt/.el, 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 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 shillings and sixpence each. Vehicles (four-wheeled), fire 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 broaght to the Transit Shed from other parts of the wharf to he stored— Receiving, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Delivering, one shilling and sixpence per ton.