THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH NOVEMBER, 1889.
(2.) Any offence mentioned in that section may also be prosecuted, and the penalty for it recovered, in the same manner as if the offence were an offence declared by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, to be punishable by a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Provided as follows :..
(a.) Where any such offence is prosecuted as last aforesaid the Court imposing the
penalty shall not impose a higher penalty than one hundred pounds; and (b.) Nothing in this section shall authorise the imposition of more than one
penalty in respect of the same offence.
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4. The expression "one of Her Majesty's ships" includes any vessel being under Definition of Her the command of an officer of Her Majesty's Navy on full pay.
Majesty's ships.
5. Nothing in this Act shall affect any power of the Admiralty in respect of the Saving for Admi- red ensign usually worn by merchant ships.
ralty.
struction of Act.
6. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Colours) Act, 1889, and Title and con- shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1887, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1889.
Enclosure 2.
6. All other vessels registered as belonging to one of Her Majesty's Colonies or Dependencies will fly the Red Ensign without any Badge. (See section 1 of 52 and 53 Victoria Cap. 73.) There will, however, be no objection to Colonial Merchant Vessels carrying distinguishing flags with the Badge of the Colony thereon, in addition to the Red Ensign, provided that such flag does not infringe the limits laid down in Section 105 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 491.
The following lydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th November, 1889.
Government of Queensland.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 20 of 1889.
SUNKEN ROCK OFF ROUND-TOP ISLAND.
A. LISTER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given, that a Sunken Rock, with about 19 fect of water over it at low water, has been found by the B.I.S. "Taroba" to lie in the following position:-~
Round-Top Island (centre), S.W. S.
Flat-Top Island Lighthouse, West.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 11th October, 1889.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 21 of 1889.
CHANNEL ACROSS BAR OF BURNETT RIVER.
Notice is hereby given, that an Inner Black Buoy has been placed on the Bar, in the line of the leading beacons and lights, to point out the extremity of a spit which has extended from the Southward into the Channel.
After passing the Outer Black Buoy vessels are to open the Lights slightly to the Northward until past the second black buoy, when they are to bring the Lights into line again, and proceed as formerly. Abreast the second buoy there is ample width of channel and deep water.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 11th October, 1889.
Portmaster.