THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 156
ROYAL COMMISSION OF PATRIOTIC FUND,
16A, Great George Street.
No. 126. s 1858.

Received, this day, through the Colonial
Office, the sum of Thirty-four Pounds One
Shilling and Ten Pence, being £32 10s. 10d.
from Otago, and £1 11s. balance from Auck-
land on account of the Patriotic Fund.
E. GARDINER FISHBOURNE, Hon. Secretary.

32 10 10 Otago
1 11 0 Auckland
£34 8 10

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, November 18, 1858.

THE following notice respecting the erec-
tion of a Lighthouse at Pencarrow Head
is published at the request of the Provincial
Government at Wellington.
HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Pencarrow Light House, Cook's Strait, New
Zealand.

Notice is hereby given that on and after the
first day of January next, a new light will be
exhibited on Pencarrow Head at the entrance
of Port Nicholson, (Wellington) Cook's Strait,
New Zealand.

The new light will be of the second order,
(Catadioptric system) with eclipses at intervals
of two minutes; it will be 420 feet above high
water mark, and visible in ordinary weather at
a distance of thirty English miles.

The following are the magnetic bearings and
distances of the site of the new Light House.
From Baring Head, N. W. by N., 3 1/4 miles.
From Sinclair Head, E. by N. 1/2 N., 6 1/2
miles.
From Outer Rock of Barretts' Reef, S. E.
by E. 1/2 E, 1 mile.
From Steeple Rock, S. S. E. 2 miles.
From Cape Campbell, N. N. E. 1/2 E., 33
miles.
The Lighthouse is in Latitude 41° 22' 0" S.
Longitude 174° 51' 15" E.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 18th November, 1858.

THE Honorable the Colonial Secretary
Notice.
W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The Office of the Steam
Navigation and Pilot Board, Sydney,
20th October, 1858.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Flagstaff,
formerly situated on the round hill, bear-

ing S. W. by S. half S. from Nobby's Island,
Newcastle, New South Wales, has been removed
to Nobby's and is placed in the immediate
vicinity of the Lighthouse. The usual tidal
signals will, therefore, for the future be exhibited
from this site.

The yard has been placed east and west, and
the flood tide signal, consisting of a black ball
with two red pendants underneath, will be ex-
hibited at the eastern yard-arm during the flood;
and the ebb tide signal, of two black balls over
one red pendant, at the western yard-arm during
the ebb.

With a view of further denoting the state of
the tide, the following alteration in the tidal
signal will be made, on and after the first day of
November next, viz.-

On the commencement of the flood tide, the
usual tidal signal, as previously described will be
hoisted at the eastern yard-arm of the flag-staff,
and will be kept flying half-mast until half-flood,
when it will be hoisted close up to the yard-arm
and will remain in that position during the con-
tinuance of the flood tide.

As soon as the ebb tide makes, the ebb tide
signal will be hoisted at the western yard-arm,
and will be kept flying in that position until half
ebb, when it will be hauled down half-mast, and
will so remain during the continuance of the
ebb tide.

Masters of vessels requiring a pilot during the
day, should, as soon as they consider themselves
to be within a sufficient distance to enable their
signals to be made out, hoist a Union Jack at the
fore-topmast head, which signal will be at once
answered from the flag-staff by the exhibition of
a similar flag; and if by night, by the firing of
a gun, or by burning a blue light, or by a flash
light, which signal will be answered from the
look-out station, in the vicinity of the Light-
house, by the exhibition of a blue light.
H. H. BROWNE, Chairman.
JOHN CROOK, Harbour Master.
W. J. WILSHIRE, Secretary.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 18th November, 1858.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation of H.
Ross, Esq., as Coroner for the District of
Rangitikei.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 18th November, 1858.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
HUGH Ross, Esq.,
to be Coroner for the District of Whanganui.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 18th November, 1858.

IT is hereby notified that in accordance with
the provisions of the "Coroners' Act,
1858," the Governor has appointed that the
Coroner at Whanganui shall have jurisdiction