The light will be elevated about 450 feet
above the sea, and will be visible in clear
weather about 29 nautical miles, allowing
fifteen feet for the height of the observer’s
eye, and at lesser distances according to the
state of the atmosphere.

The tower will be seventy feet in height,
from the base to the vane.

This light is expected to be ready for
permanent exhibition in March, 1865.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, Nov. 24, 1864.

Godley Head (Banks’ Peninsula) Lighthouse.

Godley Head Lighthouse is situated on
Godley (or Cachalot) Head, forming the
north-western entrance of Port Lyttelton,
Banks’ Peninsula, in 43° 35’ 32” South latitude and 172° 49’ 30” East longitude, as
measured on the Admiralty Chart.

The light will be a Fixed Dioptric White
Light of the second order, is elevated about
450 feet above the level of the sea, and
illuminating an arc of 200°. It will be
visible from seaward, in clear weather, about
29 nautical miles, and at lesser distances
according to the state of the atmosphere,
from E. ¼ S., round by the north to about
N.N.W. ¼ W.

The tower will be thirty feet in height
from base to vane.

This light is expected to be ready for
permanent exhibition about March, 1865.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, Nov. 24, 1864.

Taiaroa’s Head Lighthouse.

Taiaroa’s Head Lighthouse is situated on
the headland bearing that name, on the east
or seaward side of the entrance to Otago
Harbour, in 45° 47’ South latitude, and
170° 45’ East longitude, as measured on the
Admiralty Charts.

The light will be a Fixed Dioptric Red
Light of the third order, and will be seen to
seaward from about E. ½ N., round by the
North to about N.W.; and up the Harbour
it will show from about W. ½ S. to about
S.W. ¼ W., the latter line indicating the
turning-point of the Cross Channel.

The light will be elevated about 196 feet
above the level of the sea, and will be visible
in clear weather about 20 nautical miles,
allowing fifteen feet for the height of the
observer’s eye, and at lesser distances according to the state of the atmosphere.

The tower, which, together with the dwelling-houses, will be painted white...

39½ feet high from the ground to the top of
the lantern.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent exhibition on and after the night of
Monday, January 2, 1865.

Note.—All the bearings given in the above
notice are compass bearings from the Lighthouse.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, Nov. 24, 1864.

G. G. Gazette, No. 48, Dec. 16, 1864.

Enquiries respecting Charles William Waters.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, Dec. 6, 1864.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting
the above named person, it is requested
that any one who may have any knowledge
of him will communicate with this Office.

He left England about three years since
for Melbourne, and is supposed to have
come on to this Colony, as the last his
friends heard of him was that he was found
dead in the bush in New Zealand.

His height, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches; complexion, fair; occupation, picture-frame
gilder.

W. Gisborne,
Under Secretary.

G. G. Gazette, No. 48, Dec. 16, 1864.

SALE OF TOWN AND RURAL LANDS.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, January 3, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that he has fixed Thursday,
the Twenty-third day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, at the
hour of noon, at a special sitting of the Waste
Lands Board, in the Land Office, at Timaru,
as the time and place when a sale by auction
of Town and Rural Land shall take place, in
accordance with clause 24 and clause 35 of
the Waste Lands Regulations, subject to
the usual conditions of sale, and in conformity with the regulations for the disposal,
sale, letting, and occupation of the Waste
Lands of the Crown, now in force within the
Province of Canterbury.

Applications will be received by the Waste
Lands Board, at Christchurch, and at the
Survey Office, Timaru, on and up to Monday, the Sixth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

Wm. Rolleston,
Provincial Secretary.