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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Bay Road. For this land an annual rent of
eight pounds is payable.
A right of road has also been purchased
by the Board, with the view of forming ap-
proaches to the Domain from the Grafton and
Parnell Roads.

Under the Auckland Reserves Act, 1858,
certain lands were set apart to be sold, the
proceeds to be applied towards the improve-
ment of the Domain and its approaches.
Some portions of these Reserves remain un-
sold, viz. :—

1. The triangular block east of Stanley-
   street, near the Artillery watering troughs
   (which troughs are for the present permitted
   to be placed on part of the Domain).
2. A large block below the Artillery
   stable, and
3. A corner block, now occupied as a
   Bowling Green.

There is at present a money balance (on
account of the land sold under that Act) in
the Colonial Treasury at credit of the Domain
Board of £700.

This sum is the unexpended balance of the
total price of £7,777 13s. received from the
land under the Act above alluded to. It is
submitted that the Funds of the Domain
ought also to be credited with interest on the
sum of £2,098 7s. 5d., temporarily advanced,
out of the proceeds of sale of the Domain Re-
serves, towards defraying the cost of a Resi-
dent Magistrate's Court in Auckland.

With regard to the landed property, now
available for the improvement of the Public
Domain, the Board beg to report—

1. That it will be expedient not to sell the
   triangular block in Stanley-street, but to
   throw it into the Domain.
2. That the block used as a Bowling Green
   should not now be sold, but should, so long
   as occupied for a Bowling and Archery
   Ground, be permitted to remain as at present;
   a small rent being required to show the
   tenancy.
3. The land on the West and South-west
   sides of the Grafton Road should be sold
   from time to time, and the proceeds invested
   as a permanent Fund for the maintenance
   and improvement of the Domain.

HENRY SEWELL,
Chairman.
Auckland, Dec. 5th, 1863.

EXTRACT from Minutes of Domain Board as
to Cricket Ground in Domain.

10th February, 1863.

The following outline of the Rules for the
Management of the Ground was agreed on by
the Board:—

1. The President and Secretary of all
   Clubs numbering at least twenty-two members,
   whose ordinary place of play is within five
   miles of the Domain, and who shall intimate
   to the Board their wish to use the ground,

shall form a Committee of Management for
that purpose.
2. Two members of Committee shall be
a quorum.
3. The Committee shall frame Rules and
submit them to the Board for approval before
applying them.
4. The Committee must undertake the
whole expense of forming the ground, and
the Board shall be in no way responsible for
this outlay.
5. The Board are of opinion that the use
of the ground should be open to all Cricket
Clubs numbering twenty-two members.
The Clerk is instructed to call on the
Cricket Clubs, by advertisement, to send in
notice to them before Saturday next, at noon,
stating the names of the President and Secre-
tary, who are to be members of Committee,
and to arrange that a meeting of the Com-
mittee be summoned here on that day and
hour.

16th April, 1863.

The Clerk reported that the Cricket Clubs
which had taken advantage of the arrange-
ment as to the Domain Cricket Ground made
at last meeting were the "United" and
"West End" Clubs.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 14th Dec., 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the publication of the
following Sailing Directions for the Waikato
River.

T. RUSSELL.

Sailing Directions for Waikato River, New
Zealand.

When near the Waikato, do not shut in
Oruaranghi Point (a point 3' Southward of the
entrance) until the Fairway Beacons are in
one, bearing N.E. by E. E. Easterly (mag-
netic); then proceed over the Bar, with them
in line (see view). When just over the Bar,
the water will deepen 5 or 6 feet; keep the
marks on until a sandy cliff on the South
Head is about to shut in, when steer for
Putataka. When the Mission House is
touching a yellow cliff on the West side of
Putataka, see that the small black beacons
are still open, to avoid the five-foot bank to
Northward of Channel.

If wishing to bring up to the Eastward o
Putataka, anchor so as to swing clear of a 4
feet rock, E. by N., 1 cable from the point,
and the shoal water to the Northward of the
Channel. If vessel is 150 feet long, she must
moor, but can lie at single anchor to the
North-West of the Point. The tide is less to
the Eastward of the Point.

In going out from Putataka, steer down
for the mouth of the river, keeping the black
beacons open to avoid the 5 feet bank.