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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The volume is addressed and forwarded to
you separately by Book-post. It is gratify-
ing to report that thirty-three medals have been
awarded to Exhibitors of New Zealand, and
that ten have received "Honourable Mention"
for various articles. This encouraging result
places New Zealand third in the list of Austra-
lian Colonies to whom the largest number of
Medals have been awarded. It ranks after
Victoria and New South Wales, and before all
others of the group. A copy of the award of
prizes has been transmitted to the Commis-
sioners of each Province that forwarded a con-
tribution for the International Exhibition.

I have, &c.,
JOHN MORRISON.

The Hon. Colonial Secretary,
Auckland, New Zealand.

Notice of lost Debenture issued by
Government of Tasmania.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th October, 1862.

THE following Notice, issued by the Colonial
Secretary of Tasmania, is published for
general information.

F. D. BELL,
For the Colonial Secretary.

TASMANIA.
GOVERNMENT NOTICE.
No. 156.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
22nd August, 1862.

LOST DEBENTURE.

Lost, in course of transit from the Colonial
Secretary's Office to Launceston, Debenture
No. 1, under "The South Esk Bridge Act,"
for the sum of £1500, dated the 14th day of
March, 1862, and payable to William Henry
Browne.

The document being of no use except to the
rightful owner, any person who may have found
the same is requested to return it to this Office.
And all persons to whom it may be offered for
negotiation are warned against dealing with it
as a document having any value.

By His Excellency's Command.
WILLIAM HENTY.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th October, 1862.

NOTICES TO MARINERS
Issued by Government of Victoria.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th October, 1862.

THE following Notices to Mariners, issued
by the Government of Victoria, are pub-
lished for general information.

F. D. BELL,
For the Colonial Secretary.

NEW CHANNEL, GEELONG.

Masters of vessels and others navigating
the New Channel into Geelong Harbour are
hereby informed that a Black Cask Perch
Buoy has been placed at the east end of the
New Channel, on the south side, in eighteen
(18) feet at low water, with the following
magnetic bearings:-
Bird Rock Beacon on with the fall of the
east end of Station Peak N. 5 W.
Black beacon on south side of channel in
line
S. 82 W.
White upright cone buoy S. 51 E.

CHARLES FERGUSON,
Chief Harbour Master.

Department of Ports and Harbors,
Williamstown, 6th August, 1862.

WRECK BUOY OFF SHORTLAND'S BLUFF.
Notice is hereby given that the buoy
placed on the wreck of the Lady Harvey,
off Queenscliff Jetty, in 1854, will, on the
1st of September next, be removed, the wreck
having disappeared.

CHARLES FERGUSON,
Chief Harbor Master.

Department of Ports and Harbors,
Williamstown, 6th August, 1862.

GABO ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE.
In accordance with a Notice to Mariners,
issued from this office on the 6th day of May,
1862, the old fixed light on Gabo Island
was extinguished, and a first order catadioptric
fixed white light was exhibited from the new
tower, on the evening of the twentieth instant,
which will continue lit from henceforth between
sunset and sunrise.

The new lighthouse stands S. 46° E. twelve
hundred yards from the old one, about one cable's
length N. W. h. W. from the S. E. point of
Gabo Island; its approximate position is lati-
tude 37° 34' 5" S., longitude 149° 55.7' E.
The tower is circular, built of grey granite, and
remains its natural color; the light-room and
top of lantern are painted light grey.

The light is one hundred and seventy-four
feet above the level of the sea, and is
visible to seaward, in ordinary clear weather, at
a distance of twenty miles from about N.N.E.
round by E. and S. to W. S., allowing ten
feet for the height of the eye.

The new lighthouse being further to the
S.E. than the old lighthouse, vessels from the
northward will see it over the shoulder of Cape
Howe about three-quarters (3/4) of a point
further to the south-east than the old light was
visible, consequently the new light will be seen
by them sooner and show more in shore than
the old one did.

Vessels to the westward of Gabo Island, and
standing to the northward between it and
Mallagoota Point, will avoid the low Island of
Tallaburga and the reef to the southward of it
by not shutting in the light, which is screened
towards Tallaburga and the mainland on a
W. S. and E. N. bearing.