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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The light will be visible within the Heads
from S.W. by W. to about N.E. by E. i.e., from
the Swanspit Lighthouse round southerly to
Londsdale Bight.

The tower is built of bluestone, and will re-
main its natural color. The centre of the light
will be one hundred and thirty (130) feet above
high-water level, and be visible at a distance of
seventeen miles, allowing ten feet for the height
of the eye, and at lesser distances according to
the state of the atmosphere.

The attention of navigators is called to the
fact of the new light being twenty feet higher
than the present one and of greater intensity, it
will therefore show further seaward and into the
Barwon Bight than the latter did.

The alteration made in the new high light-
house from the old high lighthouse consists in
a change of color from white to grey, greater
intensity of light and range in an E. and W.
direction.

N. to N. by W. W., and red from N.E. E
to N.E. N. and N. by W. W. to S. W.

These bearings show white from thee Queens-
cliff jetty round to a safe berth clear of No.1
black buoy; thence red to a safe berth clear of
the Royal George white perch buoy; thence
white to the chequered buoy on Nicholson's
Knoll; thence red across the Symonds and
Lælia's Channels, and up the West and Cole's
Channels.

These changes are intended to obviate the
difficulties hitherto experienced in estimating a
vessel's distance at night from the Shortland
Bluff Reef and the two channel buoys at the
entrance of the West Channel.

LOW LIGHT.

Fixed Red and White.

The new low lighthouse tower will be
painted white like the present one.

The centre of the light will be ninety feet
above high-water level.

The white light will be visible at a distance
of fourteen miles, and the red light at a dis-
tance... of ten miles, and at lesser distances ac-
cording to the state of the atmosphere.

With the view of facilitating the navigation
between the Heads and through the South
Channel, and guiding ships to a safe anchorage
at night, the following alterations will be made
in the color of the low light, which has hither-
to been all red:-

On and after the evening of the 19th of
February next, the low light will show white
from about N.E. by E. to N.E., and from N.
N.E to W. by N.; and red from about N.E.
to N.N.E.

These bearings, it will be observed, show the
low light to be white from Point Lonsdale to a
safe berth clear of the reef; thence red to a
safe berth clear of the Corsair Rock; thence
white to a line passing from the lighthouse
through the south channel to the southward of
the Pope's Eye and black buoys, and to the
northward of the white buoys, so that vessels
caught after dark with light winds or adverse
tide in the south channel will be aided in their
passage through by a bearing of the light.

The change of color from red to white is
intended to warn vessels approaching Points
Lonsdale and Nepean Reefs to haul to the east-
ward or westward, as the case may be, to get
into the stream of red light which will lead them
clear of both reefs.

The two lights in one will, as heretofore, be
the safest course for vessels of heavy draught
entering between the heads.

SWAN SPIT LIGHT.

Fixed Red and White.

This light which has hitherto been colored
red all round, will, on and after the 10th Feb-
ruary next, be altered so as to show white from
about E.N.E to N.E. E., and from N.E.

CORSAIR ROCK MARKS.

Alteration in the marks on Shortland's Bluff
for clearing the Corsair Rock.

The present leading marks to clear the
Corsair Rock are the flagstaff kept open west
of the low lighthouse.

As the latter will be removed on the exhibi-
tion of the new lights, and the flagstaff being
now on the spot where the lighthouse keeper's
quarters are to be built, it will also be removed
on the 19th of February to a site close to the
high lighthouse, and from that date will cease
to be a mark for the Corsair Rock.

Before the removal of the old low lighthouse
and flagstaff, a stone obelisk, forty' (40) feet
high, colored red, will be erected close to the
site of the former.

The leading marks to clear the Corsair Rock
will then be the Red Obelisk and the east end
of the Queenscliff Telegraph Station, a two-
storied light-colored building, close to the high
lighthouse.

On and after the 19th of February next, the
following will be the directions to clear the
Corsair Rock :-

Keep the east end of the Telegraph Station
open to the westward of the Red Obelisk until
you open the White Beacon on Point Nepean
well out to the northward of the Red Beacon
when bound inwards, and well out to the south-
ward of the Red Beacon when bound outwards.

Masters of vessels and others who may possess
the sailing directions and charts for this port
can have the particulars of this notice inserted
in their proper place in the directions, and the
positions of the recently discovered rocks laid
down on their charts, by sending them to this
office.

The bearings are all magnetic, and are given
from the ship, not from the lights.

CHARLES FERGUSON,
Chief Harbour Master.

Office of Ports and Harbors,
Williamstown, 27th December, 1862.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 18th February, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

HENRY STRATTON BATES, Esq., Lieutenant
65th Regiment, Pokeno,