THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 407

Waipapapa Point about N. by W.
Slope Point N.E. by E. five or six miles.
CHARLES SHARP
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 13th October, 1864.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 24th Oct., 1864.

IN conformity with the 32nd Clause of the "Gold
Fields Act, 1862," it is hereby notified that it is
intended to grant Leases for Gold Mining purposes
of the Crown Lands, and to the applicants specified
in the following Schedule.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Applicants—Charles Haines, David Standing, John
Harris, Duncan McCall, William Covell, William
Harris, Thomas R. Procter, H. W. Bracken.

Locality—On the Shotover River, Whakatipu,
between Long Gully and Moak Creek.

Area—6 acres, 3 roods, 18 perches; being a por-
tion of the bed of the River Shotover, bounded to-
wards the North-east by a line bearing 49° 54', 303
links, towards the South-east by a line bearing 40°
6', 2266 links, towards the South-west by a line
bearing 49° 54', 303 links, and towards the North-
west by a line bearing 40° 6', 2266 links.

SUPREME COURT.

Notice of Sittings.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of the
Supreme Court, for the despatch of Criminal
Business, will be holden at the Court House, Auck-
land, on Thursday, the first day of December, next,
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. And that a
Sitting of the said Court, for the despatch of Civil
Business will be holden at the Court House aforesaid,
on Wednesday, the seventh day of December next, at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at which times and
place all persons under Recognizance to appear as
Prosecutors Defendants or Witnesses, are required
to give their attendance.

THOS. OUTHWAITE,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office, Auckland,
4th November, 1864.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned
Warehouses have been duly appointed and
approved under the 11th Clause of the "Customs
Regulation Act, 1858," as Warehouses for the
reception of goods under Bond:

Two brick and stone compartments lower stories
of, and three flats or floors of a building situated in
Shortland Street, with one brick outhouse adjoining
and one shed attached to said outhouse, all in the
occupation of Mr. William Hobson, and known as

HOBSON'S WAREHOUSE.

The half of the lower storey, of a brick and stone
building, in rear of Henderson and Macfarlane's
buildings, Queen Street, and having an entrance from
Fort Street, in the occupation of Messrs. J. S.
Macfarlane and Co., and known as

J. S. MACFARLANE AND CO'S WAREHOUSE.

WILLIAM YOUNG,
Deputy Commissioner.

Customs, Auckland,
3rd November, 1864.

NOTICE.—The undermentioned person has been
duly licensed under Clause 16, "Customs Re-

regulation Act, 1858," to act as a Custom House
Agent, at the Port of Auckland until the 31st day
of December, 1864:
JAMES DE HIRSCH, Lower Queen-street.
WM. YOUNG,
Deputy Commissioner.

Customs, Auckland, 26th Oct., 1864.

Registrar General's Office,
Auckland, 24th October, 1864.

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 intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following Names of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS within the meaning of the said Act, are
published for general information:—

Free Church of Scotland.
The Reverend ARCHIBALD RUSSELL.

The Primitive Methodist Society.
The Reverend CHARLES WATERS.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Names of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS within the meaning of the "Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 3, of the 26th January; No. 4, of the
11th of February; No. 9, of the 12th of March;
No. 10, of the 25th of March; No. 11, of the 6th of
April; No. 15, of the 27th of April; No. 20, of the
21st of May; No. 21, of the 6th of June; No. 25, of
the 2nd of July; No. 26, of the 9th of July; No.
27, of the 20th of July; No. 31, of the 16th of
August; No. 33, of the 1st of September; and
No. 40, of the 22nd of October in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this
twenty-fourth day of October, 1864.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Notice to Mariners.

CAPTAIN Randall, S.S. "Lord Ashley," reports
having struck lightly on a rock, or shoal patch,
when entering Hawke's Bay from the S.E. at nine
a.m., on the 26th October. It was dead low water,
the vessel drawing twelve feet. Bearings were im-
mediately taken as follows. Black reef S.S.W. half
a mile, Outer rock off Cape Kidnappers, S.E. by S.
about one mile. The Engines were at once stopped,
and depth of water found to be ten fathoms. The
vessel was again steered near the position indicated
by the above bearings, and a series of soundings,
gave ten to eleven fathoms, the least depth of water.

Napier, 5th November, 1864.

CHARLES SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Auckland and Drury Railway Act Amendment.

NOTICE is hereby given that application is in-
tended to be made to the General Assembly at
the ensuing session thereof for an Act to amend the
Auckland and Drury Railway Act 1863, and to en-
able the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland
to borrow money for the completion and maintenance
of the Railway and works by the said Act authorized
to be executed by mortgaging the said Railway and
works, and all the real and personal property apper-
taining thereto and the tolls dues and charges to
arise from the traffic on the said Railway and to
enable the Superintendent to delegate the powers
and authorities vested in him under or by virtue of