123 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

FIXED LIGHT ON WILSON PROMONTORY.
Also, that a light will be established on
Wilson Promontory, the southernmost point of
the Australian continent, Bass Strait.
This light will be fixed, white, placed at 324
feet above the level of the sea, and should be
visible from a distance of about 20 miles in clear
weather.
It will probably be exhibited early in the year
1859, of which due notice will be given.

ROCK OFF CURTIS ISLAND.
The English vessel "Clarendon," on the
2nd of December, 1857, whilst in a heavy sea
off the eastern side of Curtis Island, Bass Strait,
at half-tide, struck on a sunken rock, from
which the highest part of Curtis Island bore W.
by S., and the Inner Sugar Loaf Rock S. W. by
S., distant 3 miles. No soundings were taken,
but it is said that the rock was seen, and sup-
posed to be about 15 yards in circumference,
with 10 feet water over it.

CAPE FRANKLAND ROCK, FLINDERS ISLAND.
Captain Denham, of H.M. Surveying vessel
"Herald," has reported that the rock hitherto
placed in the Admiralty Charts, at 2 miles to
the westward of Cape Frankland, on the north-
west side of Flinders Island, at the eastern
entrance of Bass Strait, is found to be upwards
of 4 miles in the same direction from the Cape.
The rock, which is awash at half-tide and
shows 5 feet above low water, lies in lat.
39° 52' 2" S.; long. 147° 41' 11" East of
Greenwich, with Cape Frankland E. by N.,
easterly, 4 miles, and the hill (513 feet) on
the north part of Hummock Island, S. E. S.,
nearly 11 miles. It is about 10 yards in dia-
meter, steep-to on the seaward side, but having
a projection to the eastward for nearly one-
third of a mile, with 5 and 6 fathoms over
it, from the extremity of which the weed rises to
within 2 fathoms of the surface.
Sister Islands apparently open a sail's breadth
of Flinders Island, bearing N. E., lead outside
the rock; and Chappell Island Mount, its
breadth open of Hummock Island, S.E. by S.,
leads through the fairway between the rock and
Cape Frankland.

[All bearings Magnetic. Variation 10° East
in 1858.]

By Command of their Lordships,
JOHN WASHINGTON,
Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office Admiralty, London, 3rd
May, 1858.

This notice affects the following Admiralty
Charts:-Australia, General, No. 1,042; Bass
Straits, No., 1,695; Port Western, No. 1,707.
Also, Australia Directory, vol. 1, pages 129, 134,
103, 140, and 143; and Australia Lights List
for March, 1858, Nos. 95, 96.
E. & S.-5/58. [214.]

The light is a fixed white light, placed at an
elevation of 384 feet above the sea at high
water, illuminating all round the compass, and
visible in clear weather from a distance of 25
miles seaward, between Bald Head and Cape
Vancouver, the foot of Mount Gardner, or the
bearings E. by N. and S. W. W.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric, or by
lenses, of the third order.
The light tower is of iron, rising from the
centre of the keeper's dwelling, and the whole
43 feet high. It stands on the summit of the
island, 1,200 yards within its eastern extremity,
in lat. 35° 4' 18" S.; long. 118° 3' 20" East
of Greenwich.
When approaching King George Sound
from the westward, the mariner is cautioned
that although the light may be occasionally seen,
it does not become fairly open until bearing
N. E. N.; and it should not be steered for
until bearing N. N. E. E., when the vessel
will be to the eastward of the Maude and Van-
couver Reefs. The light also will be hidden
to a vessel passing north of Michaelmas Island

FIXED LIGHT AT PRINCESS ROYAL HARBOUR.
Also, that from the same date a harbour light
has been exhibited from Point King, the nor-
thern bluff of the narrow entrance to Princess
Royal Harbour, King George Sound.
This light is fixed, white, 37 feet above high
water, and should be visible in clear weather,
through the approaches to the harbour, from a
distance of 10 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is of the fifth order.
The lighthouse is a small wooden square tower
17 feet high, with the keeper's dwelling attached
and presents the appearance of a cottage. It
stand on the edge of the point, W.N. W. W.,
7 miles from Breaksea Island lighthouse, and
in lat. 35° 2' 35" S.; long. 117° 55' 12" East
of Greenwich.

[All bearings Magnetic. Variation 5° West
in 1858.]

By Command of their Lordships,
JOHN WASHINGTON,
Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,
13th April, 1858.

This notice affects the following Admiralty
Charts:-Australia, General, No. 1,042; Aus-
tralia, South Coast, sheet 1, No. 1,059; Princess
Royal Harbour, No. 1,736. Also, Australia
Directory, vol. 1, page 15; and Australia Lights
List for March, 1858, Nos. 81, 81*.
E. & S.-4/58. [202]

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 26.

AUSTRALIA-SOUTH COAST.
FIXED LIGHTS IN KING GEORGE SOUND.
The Surveyor General of Western Austra-
lia has given notice, that since the 1st of Jan-
uary, 1858, a light has been established on
Breaksea Island, at the entrance of King
George Sound, on the south coast of Western
Australia.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The Office of the Steam Navigation and Pilot
Board, Sydney, 4th August, 1858.
LIGHTSHIP "ROSE," MORETON BAY, NEW
SOUTH WALES.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on the 1st
January, 1859, the Lightship "Rose,"
moored in the ship channel at Moreton Bay,
and bearing W. N. from Cape Moreton Light-
house, will be removed, and a Beacon or Buoy,
(to be described hereafter) will be established
there instead of the Lightship.

H. H. BROWNE,
Chairman.
JOHN CROOK,
Harbor Master.
W. J. WILSHIRE,
Secretary.