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offset triangles, where required to be paid for at
the same rate as the main lines of measurement.
The offsets are required to all the indentations
and projections of the coast-line, but will not be
allowed, if made unnecessarily numerous.
The offsets are not to exceed two chains.
Offset triangles, where used, will require a check
line from the apex to the main line from
which they are raised. Measurements are to be
made to high water-mark at spring tides, and
the traverse lines are, in all cases, to close upon
and start from the points where the boundaries
of Allotments abut upon the high water-line, so
that the survey of so much of the coast as lies
between the boundaries of every Allotment, shall
be complete in itself, and be checked by the in-
land measurements. At every station in the
traverse, a picket is to be left so that the work
may be examined or taken up by another Sur-
veyor, who may be employed on the adjoining
land. If the station be on a rock, a broad ar-
row, at least two feet long is to be cut in the
stone, with its point indicating the exact posi-
tion of the station. If the station is on the sand,
a stake four feet long is to be driven into the
sand two feet.

The survey of the Allotments inland, are
always to precede the survey on the coast, and
the usual boundary marks, and branded pegs
with the numbers of the Lots on either side, are
to be driven at the point where such boundaries
join the high water-line, and are to serve as
closing points in the traverse of the coast.
The Surveyor will be required to intersect all
sunken or other rocks, which may be dangerous
to navigation on the coast, and to sketch the
line of low water and channels of creeks, with
the depth of water in them at low-water, with
the date of such observations.

The Contracting Surveyor will be required to
send to the Surveyor-General's Office, upon
the completion of his work, a content plot on a
scale of four chains to an inch, setting forth all
measured distances in red lines, with the number
of links and angles expressed in red figures.
The boundary marks and pickets to be in-
serted in black.

The lines of intersections to objects out of the
work, together with the figures relating thereto
in blue.

The content plot will be required to contain
a complete transcript of the Field-Book, as far
as the construction and contents of the work
are concerned, and it will be reserved for a plan
on a scale of two inches to a mile to represent
the other information required. Upon this
latter plan the lines of construction will be
omitted, except when they are actually the
boundaries of Allotments or Roads, and with
the exception of the colouring of the water and
roads, every thing is to be in Indian ink. The
high water and other surveyed lines are to be in
strong black lines-but where the courses of
streams, boundaries of woods, &c., have been
sketched, they are to be put in with dotted
lines. If only one side of a road has been cut,
the side not cut is to be shewn by a dotted line.
In addition to the boundary peg, the Surveyor

will be required to plant three seeds of "apacia"
in the mound of earth round the peg, so as to
form, when these seeds grow, permanent marks
which shall be seen at a distance, and which
may serve in some cases, where the land is not
wooded, as ornaments to the country. The
seeds can be procured at the Survey Office. As
this tree is not indigenous, it may even in woode
be distinguished when the lines have grown up,
and all other traces have been effaced.
All Tenders must be sealed, and marked on
the outside "Contract Survey,"

By Command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 19th July, 1844.

I AM directed by His Excellency the
Governor to make known to the residents
in the Southern Division of New Zealand, that
Letters on Public Service should be addressed
to "His Honor the Superintendent of the
Southern Division," and not to his Secretary.

By Command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 18th July, 1844.

THE undermentioned Deeds of Grant to
Land Claimants, have been issued from
this Office.

THE GREAT BARRIER ISLAND.

81. William Abercrombie, Claim said to con-
    tain eight thousand one hundred and nineteen
    acres, being part of Case No. 32.

82. William Webster, Claim said to contain
    eight thousand and eighty acres, being part of
    Case No. 32.

83. Jeremiah Nagle, Claim said to contain
    eight thousand and seventy acres, being part of
    Case No. 32.

THE BAY OF ISLANDS.

83. Thomas Bateman, Claim said to contain
    twenty-two acres, being Case No. 42.

84. Thomas Bateman, Claim said to contain
    one hundred acres, being Case No. 42 (b.)

85. Thomas Spicer, Claim said to coutain
    eight perches, being Case No. 214.

GULPH OF HAURAKI.

87. James Forbes Beattie, Claim said to con-
    tain two thousand five hundred and sixty acres,
    being Case No. 445.

By Command

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Police Office,
Russell, 16th July, 1844.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-
mentioned person has received a license
to exercise the business of Auctioncer in New
Zealand until the 24th day of April, 1845 :-

WILLIAM CLUNIE, of Russell.

THOS. BECKHAM,
Police Magistrate.