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Amount of Notes in circulation on the 23th day of August, 1851, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:-
£5 and upwards ........................ £1000
Under £5 .............................. 7146
Total ................................. £8146

Total amount of Coin held by the same Office on the same day:-
Gold .................................. £ 3019
Silver ................................ 1127
Total ................................. £4146

I, Henry W. Petre, the Colonial Treasurer, do hereby certify that the above is a true account, as required by the Ordinance, No. 16, Session 8.

HENRY W. PETRE,
Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Treasury, Wellington,
23th day of August, 1851.

The sum of four thousand pounds has been invested, under the warrant of his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, in the public funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.

HENRY W. PETRE,
Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT HART, Esq.,

to be a Revising Officer under the provisions of the Building and Land Societies Ordinance, Sess. XI, No. 11.

By His Excellency’s command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM HALSE, Esq.,

to lay informations under the 1st clause of the “Native Land Purchase Ordinance,” No. 19 of Sess. 7, against persons acting contrary to the provisions of the said Ordinance within the district of New Plymouth.

By His Excellency’s command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th September, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS BRUNNER, Esq.,

to be Surveyor of Crown Lands at Nelson. The above appointment to bear date from the 1st of August, 1851.

By His Excellency’s command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th September, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

THE HON. CONSTANTINE AUGUSTUS DILLON

to be a Commissioner for investigating and reporting upon claims to Land under Land Claims Ordinance, Sess. I, No. 2.

By His Excellency’s command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1851.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT PARK, Esq.,

to lay informations under the 1st clause of the “Native Land Purchase Ordinance” No. 19 of Session 7, against persons acting contrary to the provisions thereof.

By His Excellency’s command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

LIGHTHOUSE ON ROTTNEST ISLAND.

A REVOLVING Catoptric Light will be exhibited from the Lighthouse near the centre of Rottnest Island on and after the night of the 1st June, 1851, during the period between sunset and sunrise.

The Lighthouse is a white stone tower, 53 feet in height, erected on the summit of the Island, and is surmounted by a lantern 11 feet high.

The light will consist of two groups of three powerful lamps each; the whole revolving once in two minutes, and shewing a flash of light of five seconds’ duration every minute, with intervals of 55 seconds of darkness. The centre of the light is 197 feet above high-water level, and at the height of 18 feet may be seen in clear weather at a distance of 7 leagues.

Rottnest Lighthouse is in latitude 32 degrees 0 minutes 19 seconds South, longi-