NOTICE.

WHEREAS another block of land called Puatainga, containing about 3000 acres, situated on the north of the block known as Pae o te rangi, and between the West Coast and Waitemata River, has been recently purchased from the Natives;—Notice is hereby given that applications will be received at this office on and after the 20th day of June, 1854, from persons desirous of purchasing any part of the said block, at ten shillings per acre.

If more than one applicant should offer to purchase the same portion of land, the applications to that effect which may be received during the usual office hours, on the day above mentioned will be regarded as simultaneous applications, and be dealt with as such under the regulations of the 4th March, 1853, which provide that portions of land for which there may be simultaneous applications, shall be offered for sale by public auction.

C. W. LIGAR,
Surveyor-General.

Surveyor-General’s Office,
12th May, 1854.

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NOTICE.

WHEREAS a block of land called Hunua, containing about 35,000 acres, situated on the Wairoa River, has been recently purchased from the Natives;—Notice is hereby given that applications will be received at this office on and after the 20th day of June, 1854 from persons desirous of purchasing any part of the said block at ten shillings per acre.

If more than one applicant should offer to purchase the same portion of land, the applications to that effect which may be received during the usual office hours, on the day above mentioned will be regarded as simultaneous applications, and be dealt with as such under the regulations of the 4th of March, 1853, which provide that portions of land for which there may be simultaneous applications, shall be offered for sale by public Auction.

C. W. LIGAR,
Surveyor-General.

Surveyor-General’s Office,
12th May, 1854.

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Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
19th May, 1854.

THE following Extracts, from the New Zealand Government Gazette, are republished for general information.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
2nd May, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, directs the publication for general information of the following “Sailing Directions” for the Harbours of Kawhia, Whaingaroa and Aotea as furnished by Captain Drury of H.M.S. Pandora.—Tracings of these Surveys may be seen at the Surveyor General’s Office by persons interested.

By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

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SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR KAWHIA HARBOUR.

On coming from seaward the Harbour of Kawhia may be known by the distant hills rising in notched peaks (called Pironghia), and also by the high wooded headland to the northward (Woody Head).

Steer for Pironghia peaks until Albatross point bears S. by E. ½ E. and you will then have passed Gannet Island (which is small, and about 70 feet high, and lies N. by W. ¾ W. 11 miles from Albatross Point, and W. by N. ¼ N. 13 miles from Kawhia South Head) and you will see the break of the land forming the entrance to Kawhia Harbour.

The South Head is cliffy, having a very conspicuous yellow patch on it; and the North Head is a low sandy point (the gradual declension of the sand hills, which stretch between this harbour and Aotea).

Get the South Head to bear E.S.E., and steer for it, until the leading mark inside becomes visible; it is an arched cliff, reddish, and dotted with trees. Keep this a little open of the outer extreme of the South Head, bearing E. by S. ½ S. and cross the bar which is one mile from the Heads, gradually hauling towards the North Head, as the channel over the bar is close to the South Spit.

After having run about three cables, you will be in 3¼ fathoms, when you may steer for between the heads, and on that line E. by S. until the rocks off the inner and outer South Heads are in line, when steer up the left channel, which is two cables’ broad, having from 4 to 6 fathoms in it toward Leathart’s Point (which is 1½ miles within the North Head), and after rounding it, a vessel may anchor off the Native Church, about a cable’s length from shore, in from 4 to 5 fathoms low water (14 feet in the channel over the south bar at low water Spring Tides).

The marks for crossing the North Channel over the Bar are—Mr. Joseph’s house on Ohaua Point, just open of the rock off the South Head, bearing S. 48 E.; water on bar at low water Springs 11 feet. There is more shoal water crossing this bar than the southern one, and with a westerly wind, a heavy beam sea. Steer on the leading marks until into deep water, 5 fathoms, and then for the entrance, when the same directions are good which were previously given.

The tide sets out over the South Spit with a slight inclination, and the flood the contrary.

Strength of tide between the Heads from 4 to 6 knots.

High water, full and change, on bar, 9h. 30m.

Rise at Springs, 12 feet.

Latitude South Head, 38° 4’ S.

Longitude ditto, 174° 46’ 30” E.

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SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR WHAINGAROA HARBOUR.

Woody Head, or Karaka Peak, is a high conical hill, 2000 feet high, and an excellent mark for Whaingaroa. The harbour is to the northward of the hill, in a bight formed by it and the land, running towards Waikato; when the height is made the entrance to the harbour may be known by a reddish cliff hill over the South Head. The Bar lies off the entrance about one mile, formed by two spits which dry out nearly half way at low water. The entrance is two cables broad.

The North Point is sandy and low, with high woody land behind. The south point is also low, but not sandy, sloping down from the reddish cliff hill.