AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 10th October, 1870.

THE names of the undermentioned persons, appointed Collectors of Rates for the Highway Districts set opposite their respective names, have been reported to this office.

• REMUERA ... John D. Barnsley.
• MOUNT ALBERT ... P. K. Devlin.
• PAPARATA ... Andrew Sturgeon.
• NEWCASTLE ... The Trustees, and Mr. Angus Campbell.
• WAIOTAHI ... F. C. Dean.

John R. NICHOLSON,
Provincial Secretary.

(Extracted from the Provincial Government Gazette, No. 30, June 12th, 1867.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

DIRECTIONS FOR CROSSING HOKIANGA BAR.

"In consequence of the Channel over Hokianga Bar having shifted a little to the Southward, two wooden beacons have been erected in Martin’s Bay (painted white), which must be kept in line bearing N.E. by E. ½ E., and which will lead over the deepest part of the Bar."

William WELLS,
Pilot and Harbour Master, Hokianga.

SINCE the publication of the above Notice, the Channel has been working northward, and is now nearly back to its former position as marked in the Admiralty Chart. The directions for crossing the Bar, now (with a depth of 13 feet at low water) will be, to keep northward of the line of Beacons, with the Upper Beacon nearly open of the Lower Beacon, bringing both in line when over the Bar and approaching the South Head.

I. J. BURGESS,
Chief Harbour Master.

Harbour Office,
Auckland, 5th October, 1870.

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VINCENT E. RICE,
Chief Clerk.

NOTICE

Native Lands Court Office,
Auckland, September 24th, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Crown Grants to the undermentioned persons for the undermentioned Blocks of Land in the Province of Auckland, have been forwarded by the Secretary for Crown Lands to the Registrar of Deeds here for delivery to the Grantees.

W. BRIDSON,
Acting Chief Clerk.