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At such convenient place at Wangarei as shall
be specified by the Returning Officer.
At Skelton's Station at Matakana.

BAY OF ISLANDS.

At Mr. George Clarke's Station in the village
of Waimate.
At the Customs' Station at Hokianga.
At such convenient place at Wangaroa as
shall be specified by the Returning Officer.
At the Police Station at Mongonui.
At such convenient place at Wangarei as shall
be specified by the Returning Officer.
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that at the ap-
proaching Election, the Polling Places
for the "North Shore," "Little Muddy
Creek," "Mahurangi," and "Wangarei,"
will be as follows-
North Shore-Mr. Alexander McKay's
Station, Shoal Bay.
Little Muddy Creek-Mr. Cox's Station.
Mahurangi-The District Surveyor's Sta-
tion.
Wangarei-Mr. Duncan McKenzie's Sta-
tion, near Wangarei Heads.
THOMAS BECKHAM,
Returning Officer.

Police Office, Auckland,
Feb. 9th. 1855.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
9th February, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
appoint the following Gentlemen to act as
Deputy Returning Officers for the places set
opposite to their respective names, at the
approaching election of Superintendent of
the Province of Auckland.
Howick-The Resident Magistrate.
Rangiawhia-The Resident Magistrate.
Kawhia-The Sub-Collector of Customs.
Kaipara-The Resident Magistrate.
Mahurangi-The District Surveyor.
Wangarei-The Commissioner for the pur-
chase of Native Lands.
Mongonui-The Resident Magistrate.
Hokianga-the Sub-Collector of Customs.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 9th Feb. 1855:
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to direct
that the following "Notice to Mariners"
should be published for general information.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary

NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
WHALSEY SKERRIES, SHETLAND—TEMPORARY
LIGHTHOUSE.

The Commissioners of Northern Light-

houses thereby give notice that they are at
present engaged in erecting a Lighthouse on
the Out-Ske ries of Whalsey, on the Eastern
Coast of the Shetland Isles, and that until the
completion of the permanent Lighthouse, a
Light will be shewn from a temporary Tower,
and will be exhibited for the first time on the
night of Friday the 15th September, 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 Light-
house, and the appearance of the Light, by
Mr. David Stevenson, Engineer to the Com-
missioners:-

The Lighouse is situated on the Eastern
part of the Island of Gruna, in N. Lat. 60°
25' 24", and W. Long. 0° 44' 20", the
Bound Skerry of Whalsey bearing from the
Lighthouse about E. by compass. The outer
or seaward extremity of the Bound Skerry is
about half a mile or thereby from the site of
the Lighthouse, so that Vessels in rounding the
Light must give it a wide berth.

The Whalsey Light will be known to Mari-
ners as a REVOLVING LIGHT, which shews a
bright White Light once in every minute.
Tho temporary Light will be exhibited
trom a Tower of Timber Frame Work, and is
elevated about 108 feet above the level of high
water of ordinary spring-tides, and may be seen
at the distance of about 16 nautic miles, and
at lesser distances according to the state of the
atmosphere. To a near observer, in favour-
able circumstances, the Light will not wholly
disappear between the intervals of greatest
brightness.

The Commissioners further give notice, that
by Order in Council, dated the 3rd 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 success irs, 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
Voyage, ten per cent; for an Oversea Voyage,
twenty-five per cent.

By order of the Board.
(Signed) ALEX. CUNINGHAM,
Northern Lighthouse Office,
Edinburgh, 12th January, 1854.