THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 451

POSTAL.

Alteration of Post Offices at Onehunga.
General Post Office,
Auckland, 7th December, 1864.

T is notified for general information that on and
after 1st January, 1865, the Post Offices at
present established at Onehunga, in the Province of
Auckland, will be closed, and an Office in lieu thereof
will be opened on the premises of Mr. Allen Christey,
Queen Street, Onehunga—to be constituted a Money-
Order Office, and also a Post Office of the second
class, for the exchange of separate Mails and other
purposes within the meaning of the fourth clause of
the Postal Regulations of 1st April, 1862. The
Receiving Box at Mr. Davies', Queen Street, will be
continued, but Mails will be received and despatched
only at and from the office of Mr. Christey's.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster General.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 8th December, 1864.

T HE following Notices, issued by the Marine
Board, relative to the Lights to be exhibited on
various parts of the Coast of New Zealand, viz., on
Dog Island, Foveaux Straits;
Tairoa's Head, entrance to Otago Harbour;
Godley Head, entrance to Port Lyttelton; and
Mana Island, Cook's Straits;
are published for general information.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.

Dog Island, Foveaux Straits, Lighthouse.

Dog Island Lighthouse is situated on a small
island of that name in Foveaux Straits, off the
entrance to the Bluff Harbour, in 46° 39' 35" South
latitute, and 168° 26' East longitude, as measured
on the Admiralty chart.

The light will show all round, and will be a
Holophotal Dioptric Revolving White Light, of the
first order, attaining its greatest brilliancy every
half minute.

It will be elevated about 150 feet above the level
of the sea, and will be visible in clear weather about
eighteen nautical miles, allowing fifteen feet for the
height of the observer's eye, and at lesser distances
according to the state of the atmosphere.

The Tower is built of native stone of a grey
colour, and will be 118 feet in height from the ground
to the top of the lantern.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent
exhibition not later than April, 1865.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1864.

Mana Island, Cook's Straits, Lighthouse.

Mana Island Light-house is now in course of crec-
tion, on the North-western promontory of Mana
Island, off the entrance to Porirua Harbour, on the
Eastern shore of Cook's Straits, in 41° 5' South lati-
tude, and 174° 48' East longitude, as measured on
the Admirality Chart.

The light will be a Fixed Dioptric White Light of
the second order, and will be seen in every direction
where not intercepted by land.

The light will be elevated about 450 feet above the
sea, and will be visible in clear weather about 29
nautical miles, allowing fifteen feet for the height of
the observer's eye, and at lesser distances according
to the state of the atmosphere.

The tower will be seventy feet in height, from the
base to the vane.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent
exhibition in March, 1865.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th Nov. 1864.

Godley Head (Banks' Peninsula) Lighthouse.

Godley Head Lighthouse is situated on Godley
(or Cachalot) Head, forming the north-western
entrance of Port Lyttelton, Banks' Peninsula, in
43° 35' 32" south latitude, and 172° 49' 30" east
longitude, as measured on the Admiralty Chart.

The light will be a Fixed Dioptric White Light,
of the second order, is elevated about 450 feet above
the level of the sea, and illuminating an arc of 200°.

It will be visible from seaward, in clear weather,
about 29 nautical miles, and at lesser distances,
according to the state of the atmosphere, from E. S.,
round by the north to about N.N.W. + W.

The tower will be thirty feet in height from base to
vane.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent
exhibition about March, 1865.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th Nov., 1864.

Tairoa's Head Lighthouse.

Tairoa's Head Lighthouse is situated on the head-
land bearing that name, on the east or seaward side
of the entrance to Otago Harbour, in 45° 47' south
latitude, and 170° 45' east longitude, as measured
on the Admiralty Charts.

The Light will be a Fixed Dioptric Red Light of
the 3rd order, and will be seen to seaward from about
E. N., round by the North to about N.W.; and up
the Harbour it will show from about W. S. to about
S.W. W., the latter line indicating the turning-
point of the Cross Channel.

The light will be elevated about 196 feet above the
level of the sea, and will be visible in clear weather
about 20 nautical miles, allowing 15 feet for the
height of the observer's eye, and at lesser distances
according to the state of the atmosphere.

The tower, which, together with the dwelling
houses, will be painted white, will be 39 feet high
from the ground to the top of the lantern.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent
exhibition on and after the night of Monday, January
2nd, 1865.

Note.—All the bearings given in the above notice,
are compass bearings from the Lighthouse.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th Nov., 1864.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Manukau Harbour.

N OTICE is hereby given that the inner fair way
buoy in the South Channel of the Manukau
has been removed, and a cone buoy with a barrel
beacon on top and painted red has been placed in 4
fathoms, distant from the N. E. end of Treachery
Shoal about one cable. This buoy should be left on
the Starboard hand going in.

Marine Board Office,
Auckland, 13th December, 1864.

R. JOHNSON,
Warden.