Unauthorised Expenditure.

Native Interpreter ... 39 3 6
Harbor Improvements ... 274 9 1
Harbor Moorings ... 394 19 10
Addition to Gaol ... 511 3 0
Addition to Custom House ... 226 9 3
Colonial Defences and Defence Force ... 3175 4 4
Militia ... 142 2 9
Stables, Napier Police Force ... 15 8 2
Napier Savings Bank ... 19 10 0
Wellington Provincial Government ... 25 0 0
Provincial Defences ... 189 10 5

Total ... £11392 6 9

G. E. G. RICHARDSON,
Provincial Auditor.

November 30th, 1864.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, Dec. 17, 1864.

THE following extracts from the New Zealand Gazette are published for general information.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
General Post Office, Auckland,
16th November, 1864.

The following Notices issued by the Marine Board relative to the Light to be exhibited on the Island of Tiri Tiri Matangi and the Buoy in the Shearer’s Rock, are published for general information.

READER WOOD,
For the Postmaster-General.

Lighthouse, Tiri Tiri Matangi, Hauraki Gulf.

The Lighthouse in course of construction on the S.E. end of Tiri Tiri, in latitude 36° 36' 30" S., longitude 174° 55' 15" E., will be lit from sunset to sunrise, from and after 1st January, 1865.

The Tower is of iron, 48 feet high, painted light red colour, and the focal plane of the lantern is 300 feet above high water mark.

The illuminating apparatus is Dioptric of the 2nd order, showing a fixed white light all round the horizon, which may be seen from the deck of a vessel in clear weather at a distance of 23½ nautical miles.

Buoy on Shearer’s Rock.

Notice is also given that a Red Buoy has been laid in 14 fathoms N.N.E. of, and close to, the Shearer’s Rock, distant from the Lighthouse about one mile, with the following magnetic bearings — Southern extreme of Tiri Tiri, S. 52° W.; Northern extreme of Tiri Tiri, N. 72° W.; Lighthouse Tower, S. 67° W.

R. JOHNSON,
Warden.

Marine Board Office, Auckland,
12th Nov., 1864.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
General Post Office,
Auckland, 8th December, 1864.

The following Notices, issued by the Marine Board, relative to the Lights to be exhibited on various parts of the Coast of New Zealand, viz., on

Dog Island, Foveaux Straits;
Tairoa’s Head, entrance to Otago Harbour;
Godley Head, entrance to Port Lyttelton; and
Mana Island, Cook’s Straits;

are published for general information.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.

Dog Island, Foveaux Straits, Lighthouse.

Dog Island Lighthouse is situated on a small island of that name in Foveaux Straits, off the entrance to the Bluff Harbour, in 46° 39' 35" South latitude, and 168° 26' East longitude, as measured on the Admiralty chart.

The light will show all round, and will be a Holophotal Dioptric Revolving White Light, of the first order, attaining its greatest brilliancy every half minute.

It will be elevated about 150 feet above the level of the sea, and will be visible in clear weather about eighteen 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 is built of native stone of a grey colour, and will be 118 feet in height from the ground to the top of the lantern.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent exhibition not later than April, 1865.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

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

Mana Island, Cook’s Straits, Lighthouse.

Mana Island Lighthouse is now in course of erection, on the North-western promontory of Mana Island, off the entrance to Porirua Harbour, on the Eastern shore.