THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 55

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 18th February, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the publication of the
following Despatch for general information.
HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
For the Colonial Secretary.

Downing Street,
20th October, 1858.

SIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of
your despatch No. 53, of the 26th of June,
forwarding an Address to Her Majesty from
the Legislative Council and House of Repre-
sentatives of New Zealand on the occasion of
the Marriage of Her Royal Highness the
Princess Royal with the Prince Frederick
William of Prussia.

I have to inform you that I have laid this
Address before the Queen, aud that Her Ma-
jesty was pleased to receive the same very
graciously.

I have, &c.,
E. B. LYTTON.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.
New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February 16th, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation of
JOHN STEVENSON, Esq.,
as Trustee of the Auckland Savings Bank.
HERNY JOHN TANCRED,
for the Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 16th Feb., 1859.

IT is notified for general information that in
the 82nd Section of "The Customs Regu-
lation Act, 1858," as printed among the Acts
of the General Assembly, the insertion in the
third line of that Section of the words "of a
perishable nature" is a typographical error, and
that the said clause, as passed by both Houses
of the Legislature and assented to by his Ex-
cellency the Governor, stands as follows:-

"LXXXII. All goods of a perishable na-
"ture deposited in the Queen's Warehouse and
"not duly cleared therefrom forthwith, and all
"other goods so deposited and not so cleared
"within six months, may, if the same cannot
"be sold for a sum sufficient to pay the duties
"and charges thereon, if offered for sale for
"home consumption, or the charges thereon, if
"offered for sale for exportation, be destroyed
"by the direction of the Commissioner."

H. J. TANCRED,
(For the Colonial Secretary.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 17th February, 1859.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received
from the Government of New South
Wales, is published for general information.
W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

CAPTAIN DENHAM, of H. M. S. "Herald," re-
ports the existence of a Rock, with as little as
seven feet water over it, in the hitherto deemed
fairway of the south passage into Moreton
Bay.

The said Rock lies nearly midway upon a
line drawn between the outer extreme of "Cape
Moreton" and "Flinders' Rocks," and bears
from the Lighthouse N. by E. E. (easterly),
distant 2 miles.

A ship can keep seaward of it by night, so
long as the light is not brought southward of
S.S.W. W., or, by day, she will be, at the
least, of a mile outside of it, so long as
"Mount Tempest" (bearing S.S.W.) is open of
"Cape Moreton;" while, if bound into the bay,
a safe passage between it and the Cape will be
ensured by not opening "Ridge-tree Land"
northward of "North Point," with which it
closes, but is seen over, on the bearing of S.
W.W.

Whenever the weather is not clear enough to
make out the distant objects, or a stranger is
navigating himself into the pilot ground of
Moreton Bay, he should according to the wind,
hug the foot of the Cape, which is bold on the
south hand, or, borrow upon the breakers of
Flinders Rocks on his north hand, rather than
make free with the midway line of the said
south Passage, until the suggested "Black
Buoy', denotes the actual position of this fear-
ful danger, lying as it does, outside the boarding
limits of the local pilots.

Submitted to His Excellency the Governor
General of New South Wales, Decem-
ber 10th, 1858, by

H. M. DENHAM.

Attorney-General's Office,
February 17th, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
ARTHUR FOLLETT HALCOMBE, Esq.,
to be Coroner for the District of Rangitikei.
FRED. WHITAKER.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Auckland, 16th Feb., 1859.

THE following Instructions, recently issued
by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Customs, with the concurrence of the Board
of Trade, are published for the information
and guidance of the Registrars of Shipping in
the Colony.

C. W. RICHMOND,
Commissioner.

Circular No. 98.

BOARD OF TRADE,
October 1858.

INSTRUCTIONS TO REGISTRARS
OF SHIPPING.

In the case of the Registration of Bills of
Sale of Ships, in which the Transferees are