✨ Provincial Notices and Correspondence
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
H. G. GOULAND, Provincial Secretary.
Vol. I.] SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1854. [No. XV.]
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, June 20, 1854.
THE following letter is published for general information.
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, May 27, 1854.
Sir,—I have the honor, by direction of His Excellency the Officer administering the Government, to inform you, that the original Standard Weights and Measures sent from England for the purpose of verifying copies or models for regulating the weights and measures in use in this colony will be accessible for that purpose on application to this office.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
(Signed) ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
His Honor the Superintendent,
Canterbury.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, June 20, 1854.
THE following Notices are re-published from the “New Zealand Government Gazettes” for general information.
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Sydney, December 29th, 1853.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
HIS Excellency the Governor General directs the publication, for general information, of the subjoined notice, containing a description of the Light which has been established at Gabo Island, and which he has been pleased to designate the “Flinders Light,” in honour of the late Captain Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy, and in testimony of the eminent services rendered by him to the Australian Colonies, by the numerous hydrographical surveys which he made of the Coast and Harbours.
By His Excellency’s command,
E. DEAS THOMSON.
FLINDERS LIGHT, GABO ISLAND.
The Lighthouse on Gabo Island, off Cape How, is situated in
Latitude... 37° 34’ 20” South.
Longitude... 149° 54’ 40” East.
It was completed and lighted on the 28th November, 1853, and a light will in future be exhibited from sunset to sun rise.
The Lighthouse is a skeleton timber erection, painted White; the roof and framing of the Lantern painted Red; and the Ventilating Ball painted Yellow.
It stands nearly in the centre of the Island, about three-quarters of a mile from its southern point, upon a sand-hill 157 ft. 6 in.
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- H. G. Goulard, Provincial Secretary
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- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
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