THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 133

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE LIGHT.
The bearings are true, and the distances
nautical miles.

An iron tower has been erected on the Cape
of Good Hope, a light from which will be
exhibited on the first of May, 1860.
The tower is 30 feet above the ground, and
is painted white; the light is 816 feet above
the sea, and is visible in all directions from
N. 34° W., round by the west, south, east,
and north, to N. 7° W., save and except on
a sector included between N. 54° W. and
N. 61° W., where it is obscured by the
intervention of a high peak, 880 feet above
the sea, and 1,800 yards from the light tower.
The light is on the catoptric principle and
shows its most brilliant beam once in a minute
for the space of twelve seconds of time, and it
is visible in clear weather from a deck 16 feet
high at the distance of 36 miles.
Latitude of the light... 34° 21' 12" S.
Longitude 18° 29' 30" E.
The light tower stands N. 49° W., 925
yards from the Dias Rock, which is the
southern extremity of the Cape Peninsula.
The following bearings and distances are
given from the light :-
Anvil Rocks... S. 54° E. 1.8 miles
Bellows ... S. 1° W. 2.1 “
S. W. Reef ... S. 55° W. 1.8 “
Whittle Rock N. 27° 30' E. 7.2 “
A current of varied strength sets round the
Cape and turns to the N.W. from the Bellows
Rock. This rock always breaks; but not so
the Anvil, which only breaks at low water and
with a heavy swell. Sailing vessels should
not pass between these dangers and the Cape,
unless with a commanding breeze. The rocky
patch, "S.W. Reef," lies south 42° W., one
mile only from the S.W. corner of the Cape
Peninsula, and there is foul rocky ground
between it and the shore.
Ships from the eastward should not bring
the light to bear more westerly than W. by N.,
by which they will clear all dangers off Cape
Hanglip. A tongue of low land stretches
from this Cape in a S. 23° W. direction for
1 miles, rendering caution necessary in pass-
ing Hanglip in hazy weather, especially if
bound into Simon's Bay. If bound for Table
Bay from the eastward, vessels, after rounding
the Cape of Good Hope and passing Slangkop
Point, should not shut in the light with that
point until the Green Point light becomes
visible (which will be on a N. 41° E. bear-
ing). This course will carry them about two
miles to the westward of the Vulcan Rock,
which lies off the northern entrance to Hout
Bay; a course for Table Bay may then be
shaped with safety.
Vessels from the westward bound for Simon's
Bay, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope
and having brought the southern end of the
lofty Zwartkop range (which stands over the
northern side of Smith's Winkle Bay), to bear
west-should keep the light on Cape Point
between S. 2° W. and S. 23° W., until the
Roman Rock light bears between N. 30° W.
and N. 47° W., when they may haul towards
it. These limits leave the rocks off Millar's
Point on the one hand and the Whittle Rock
on the other, half a mile distant. Should the
weather be hazy and the whitewashed mark
and beacon for the Whittle Rock indistinct—
there is a dark peak over the southern side of
Hout Bay which being brought on with Elsey
Peak on a N. 42° W. bearing, will lead clear
(but close) to the westward of the Whittle
Rock.

F. SKEAD, Master R.N.,
Admiralty Surveyor.
Simon's Bay, Feb. 2, 1860.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 26th July, 1860.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and entitled
"The Marriage Act, 1854," the following
Name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER, within the
meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:—

Free Church of Scotland.
The Reverend ANDREW HAMILTON STOBO.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zea-
land, do hereby certify that the foregoing
NAME of an OFFICIATING MINISTER, within
the meaning of "The Marriage Act, 1854,"
has been sent into me, in addition to the Names
in Lists published in the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 4 of the 26th of January, No. 5 of the
7th of February, No. 7 of the 24th of February,
No. 13 of the 23rd of April, No. 19 of the 9th
of June, and No. 21 of the 7th of July, in the
present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland
this twenty-sixth day of July,
1860.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor
William Sefton Moorhouse, Esq., Su-
perintendent of the Province of Canterbury
intends at the next Session of the General As-
sembly to apply for an Act for making a Rail-
way between Lyttelton and Christchurch.

THOS. S. DUNCAN,
Provincial Solicitor,
Agent for the said Bill, and Council
for the said William Sefton
Moorhouse.
Christchurch, June 19, 1860.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an applica-
tion will be made to the General Assembly of
New Zealand, in the next Session thereof, for an Act
to enable the Governor to grant to WILLIAM
ACLAND DOUGLASS ANDERSON a Patent for
an Invention for Improvements in the Manufacture of
Pipes for the Conveyance of Water and Gases, and for
enclosing Electric Telegraphic Wires and other pur-
poses, a d also to a mode of strengthening various
descriptions of Pipes and rendering them waterproof
and staunch.

Dated this 20th day of July, 1860.
WILLIAM BRACEY,
Shortland-street, Auckland,
Agent for the said William Acland Douglass Anderson