It is high water full and change at the Pilot Station 12h. 30m., and the rise of tide from six to eleven feet, according to the winds and state of the tides ; westerly winds setting the tides up.

A Flag-staff has been erected on Steep Head, on which will be hoisted, on and after the 15th August, 1868, tidal signals, nearly the same as shown at Lonsdale Point, Port Phillip, viz :

BETWEEN SUNRISE AND SUNSET,

During the first quarter flood, a blue flag half-mast high.

During the second quarter flood, a blue flag at the mast-head.

During the third quarter flood, No. 7, Marryatt’s, half-mast high.

During the last quarter flood, No. 7, Marryatt’s, at the mast-head.

EBB TIDE.

During first quarter, a blue flag half-mast-high, with a ball underneath.

During second quarter, a blue flag at masthead, with a ball underneath.

During third quarter, No. 7, Marryatt’s, half-mast high, with a ball underneath.

Last quarter, No. 7, Marryatt’s, at the mast-head, with a ball underneath.

When the sea is high on the bar, a black ball will be hoisted at the north yardarm, in addition to the tidal signals ; but, when it is unfit for a vessel to enter the harbour, the tidal signals will not be shown, but two black balls will be hoisted at the north yardarm.

Communication may be had with vessels at sea, by means of Marryatt’s signals, at the south yardarm.

Marryatt’s signals, at the north yardarm, will be intended for the pilots at the station.

Masters of vessels should not run for the harbour during the ebb tide, unless with a good commanding breeze, smooth water, and with a vessel easily steered.

The bearings and courses given are by compass, and the soundings at low water spring tides.

J. B. GREIG, Harbour Master.

Registration of Deeds Office,
Picton, Marlborough, Aug. 31, 1863.

IT is hereby notified that the above Office will be open to the Public, for the transaction of the usual Business, from the 1st day of September.

WILLIAM JEFFERY,
Registrar of Deeds.

A PROCLAMATION

For bringing Ordinance, Session 7, No. 10, and “The Weights and Measures Ordinance Amendment Act, 1861,” into operation within a district in the Province of Marlborough.

By His Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS it is expedient to bring into operation within a portion of the Province of Marlborough, the Ordinance intituled an Ordinance for establishing Standard Weights and Measures, and for the prevention of such as are false and deficient, Session VII. No. 10, and an Act intituled “The Weights and Measures Ordinance Amendment Act, 1861.”

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority in me vested in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and appoint that from the sixth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the operation of the said Ordinance and Act shall extend to the following District situate in the Province of Marlborough in the said Colony, that is to say :—

All that part of the Province of Marlborough situated and being within a radius of Twenty-five miles of the Town of Blenheim, in the said Province of Marlborough.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Crown Lands Office,
Picton, August 24, 1863.

IN compliance with the Land Regulations of 1st July, 1856, Notice is hereby given of the number of acres of Land sold since 1st November, 1859, on each run