GOVERNMENT NOTICE.

Name, John King. No. "Maitland."
Trade ............ Labourer
Height (without shoes) ... 5 feet, 8 inches
Age ............. 31
Complexion ...... fresh
Head ............ small
Hair ............ dark brown
Whiskers ........ sandy
Visage .......... broad
Forehead ........ very low
Eyebrows ........ brown
Eyes ............ grey
Nose ............ large
Mouth ........... medium
Chin ............ j
Remarks ......... mark of a stab on the loins.

Name, Matthew Clarke. No. "Marion"
Trade ............ Sailor
Height (without shoes) ... 5 feet, 1½ inch.
Age ............. 39
Complexion ....... fair
Head ............ oval
Hair ............ brown
Whiskers ........
Visage .......... oval
Forehead ........ medium height
Eyebrows ........ hazle
Nose ............ long
Mouth ........... medium
Chin ............ broad
Remarks ......... Flag and anchor inside left arm.

Civil Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 22nd March, 1849.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct the republication of the following Government Notice respecting the sailing instructions for vessels approaching the new Light-House recently erected on Cape Agulhas, the most southern point of Africa.

By His Excellency’s command,
C. A. DILLON,
Civil Secretary.

[CIRCULAR.]

Colonial Office, Cape of Good Hope,
1st January, 1849.

Sir,—By direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, I have the honor to enclose, for your information, Copy of Sailing Instructions for vessels approaching the new Light-house recently erected on Cape Agulhas, the most Southern Point of Africa.

I am further to inform you, that the Lantern will be lighted for the first time on the 1st of March next; and will, thereafter, continue to be lighted every evening at sunset.

By his Excellency’s command,
(Signed) John MONTAGU,
Secretary to Government.

CAPE AGULHAS LIGHT.

It has been thought advisable to reverse the logical order of the matter connected with the establishment of this Light, so that what is most wanted should appear first, and further information be had by reference to the particular heads.

The adopted arrangement is as follows:

1. General Sailing Instructions for passing Agulhas.
2. Description of the Land and Shore about Agulhas.
3. Instructions for anchoring in Struys Bay, Currents, Tides, &c.
4. Description of the construction of the Light Apparatus.

GENERAL SAILING INSTRUCTIONS FOR PASSING AGULHAS.

Latitude of the light ... 34° 49' 45.7" S.
Long. East of Greenwich 20° 0' 40" = 1h 20m 2.67s
Long. East of the Cape Observatory ... 1° 31' 55" = 0h 6m 7.67s
Height of the Light above the mean level of the sea, 131 English feet.
Magnetic Variation 29° 20' W.

The light can be seen in clear weather in any direction seaward, between east and north west by west, at the distance of six leagues from a deck 15 feet high. It is a steady white light.

All the bearings mentioned are Magnetic, and all the distances expressed in miles are Geographical, unless the contrary is stated.

If a vessel from the Eastward passes Struys Point at the distance of 5 miles from the shore and steers a W. by S. course exactly, she will pass the most southerly projection of the Northumberland point reef at the distance of 4¼ miles, and the light at the distance of 5½ miles, and clear Gunner’s Quoin. This is the limit Northward within which no sailing vessel

The Honorable the
Secretary to Government,
New Zealand,