Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, November 10th 1848.

IS Excellency the Governor-in-chief, has been pleased to direct the republication of the following Notice, from the New South Wales Government Gazette.

By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Sydney, 20th October, 1848.

LIGHT HOUSE ON CAPE OTWAY.

IS Excellency the Governor directs the publication, for general information, of the subjoined memorandum respecting the Light House which has recently been erected on Cape Otway, in Bass’s Straits.

His Excellency further directs it to be notified, that at the expiration of one calendar month from the 20th day of October, 1848, the Dues towards the maintenance of the said Light House will become payable at the several Ports in New South Wales, as provided for by the Act of the Governor and Legislative Council, passed in the eleventh year of Her Majesty’s reign; intituled, “An Act to provide for the payment of Dues towards the maintenance of Light Houses at Gabo Island and Cape Otway, respectively.”

By His Excellency’s command,
(Signed) E. Deas Thomson.

The Light House on Cape Otway, Bass’s Straits, latitude 38 degrees 51 minutes south, longitude 143 degrees 29 minutes east, having been completed and lighted on the 29th August, 1848, a light is burning, and will continue from sunset until sunrise.

The reef off Cape Otway is one-half to three-quarters of a mile distant, bearing south-east to south south-west, and extends 1¼ miles westward.

The Light House is erected on a cliff 251 feet 6 inches above highwater mark; the supporting column is 45 feet high, and the lantern 7 feet high.

From highwater mark to the centre of the light is 300 feet.

The light is a revolving catoptric of three groups of lamps, each group containing 7 lamps; the entire revolves round once in two minutes 39 seconds, shewing a flash of light of 3 seconds duration, and 50 seconds of darkness.

It is estimated that the light will be seen 8 leagues.

(Signed) HENRY GINN,
Clerk of Works.

Commissioner of Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 10th November, 1848.

WITH reference to that part of the Squatting Regulations, published in the Government Gazette of the 2nd instant, which relates to the common of pasturage within the limits of a Hundred, the Commissioner of Crown Lands particularly requests all persons, being occupants of Land held under Crown Grant, or occupying as New Zealand Fencibles, Natives, or Half-Castes, land, by permission of the Crown, within each Hundred, who may be desirous of despasturing Stock during the ensuing year, on the wastelands of the Crown within a hundred—to take notice, that it will first be necessary for each of them to take out a Depasturing License previously to the 1st of January next.

All applications for such Licenses, accompanied by returns of land occupied as aforesaid, are to be forwarded to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, care being taken that the name of the Hundred for which the License is required and within which the land is occupied, is, in each case, correctly specified.

The Licenses will be issued by the Colonial Treasurer, upon payment of a fee of 10s. 6d. for each license.

The regulation and apportionment—among the holders of Depasturing licenses—of Waste Land Pasturage within each Hundred will vest, for the year, in Wardens to be elected by these holders, who will exclusively enjoy the right of such Pasturage.

Persons claiming to depasture Stock on the Waste Lands of two or more Hundreds will have to take out separate licenses for each of such Hundreds.

The Hundreds already proclaimed are those of—AUCKLAND, ONEHUNGA, PANMURE, OTAHUHU, HOWICK, and PUKEKOE, and their several boundaries can be seen in a Map deposited in the Survey Office.

More detailed information can be obtained, if desired, on application at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

TRANSFER OF LICENSES.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a special Meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the town and district of Auckland, will be holden at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, on TUESDAY, the fifth day of December next, at 12 o’clock at noon, for the purpose of receiving Applications for the transfer of Publicans’ Licenses.

JAMES ELLIOTT,
Clerk to the Magistrates.
Resident Magistrate’s Court,
Auckland, Nov. 8, 1848.

NOTICE OF PARTNERSHIP.

A PARTNERSHIP has been duly effected between the Undersigned—William Davies, Esq., M. D., of this town, and Matthew Carter, Esq., M. D., one of the Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of London.

WILLIAM DAVIES, M. D.
MATTHEW CARTER, M. D.
Witness—Fred. Whitaker.
Auckland, October 17th, 1848.

Printed by Williamson and Wilson, for the New Zealand Government.