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Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
2nd February, 1855.

H IS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has directed that the
following extract from the "Mutiny Act"
should be published for the information of the
public,

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary,

87TH CLAUSE OF THE "MUTINY ACT."

Any person who shall in any part of Her
Majesty's dominions, by words, or by any
other means whatsoever, directly, or indirectly,
procure any soldier to desert, or shall by
words or by any other means whatsoever
attempt to procure or persuade any soldier to
desert, and any person who, knowing that any
soldier is about to desert, shall aid or assist
him in deserting, or knowing any soldier to
be a deserter, shall conceal such deserter, or
aid or assist such deserter in concealing him-
self, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to
be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both,
as the Court before which such conviction
shall take place may adjudge.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 31st January, 1855.

H IS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to di-
rect that the following "Notice to Mariners"
should be published for general informa-
tion.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary

NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

NORTH UNST, SHETLAND—TEMPORARY
LIGHTHOUSE.

The Commissioners of Northern Light-
houses hereby give notice that, with a view to
a permanent light being ultimately established
in the same locality, a temporary Lighthouse
tower has been erected off the North end of
the Island of Unst, in Shetland, and that the
Light will be exhibited therefrom for the first
time on the night of Wednesday, 11th October
1854, and every night thereafter, from the
going away of day-light in the evening till
the return of day-light in the morning.

The following is a Specification of the
Lighthouse, and the appearance of the Light,
by Mr. David Stevenson, Engineer to the
Commissioners:

The temporary Lighthouse is erected on
Muckle Flugga, being one of the group of
rocks called the Burra Fiord Holms, which

lie off the headland of Hermaness, being the
northern extremity of the Island of Unst. The
Lighthouse is in N. Lat. 60° 51' 20," and W.
Long. 0° 53′ 3."

The small rock called the "Out Stack,"
which is the most northern rock of the Shet-
land Isles, bears from the Lighthouse about
E. b. N. N. by compass, and is distant about
half a nautic mile.

The North Unst Light will be known to
Mariners as a FIXED LIGHT, of the natural
colour. It is elevated about 165 feet above
the level of high water of ordinary spring-
tides, and may be seen at the distance of about
19 nautic miles, and at lesser distances ac-
cording to the state of the atmosphere.

The Commissioners further give notice,
that by order in Council, dated the 3d day of
July last, the following Tolls are authorised to
be levied in respect of the said Lighthouse,
viz :-

For every Vessel belonging to the United
Kingdom (the same not belonging to Her Ma-
jesty, her heirs or successors, nor being navi-
gated wholly in ballast) and for every Foreign
Vessel privileged to enter the ports of the
United Kingdom upon paying the same duties
of Tonnage as are payable by British Vessels
which may pass or derive benefit from the
Light, the Toll of Two-Sixteenths of a Penny
per Ton of the burthen of every such Vessel
for every time of passing or deriving benefit
therefrom, if on a coasting voyage.

For each time of passing or deriving benefit
on an Oversea voyage, One Penny per Ton
for every such Vessel.

For every Foreign Vessel not navigated
wholly in ballast, and not privileged in man-
ner before specified, double the respective
Tolls above set forth.

Which Tolls are liable to the following
abatements on payment for a Coasting Voy-
age, Ten per cent; for an Oversea Voyage,
Twenty-five per cent,

By order of the Board,
(Signed) ALEX. CUNINGHAM, Secretary.

Northern Lighthouse Office,
Edinburgh, 20th Sept., 1854.

Crown Land's Office, New Plymouth,
27th November, 1854.

I, WILLIAM HALSE, a Commissioner
duly appointed by virtue of the Ordi-
nance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative
Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to
hear and decide claims to land by persons
claiming title thereto, from, through, or
under the New Zealand Company, report that
the claims of the persons whose names appear
in the Schedule hereunder, having been duly
referred to me for investigation, I do hereby
decide that the said persons are respectively
entitled to the Crown Grants set against their
names in the said Schedule.

W. HALSE,
Commissioner