THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 79

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd Feb., 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

HERBERT BELFIELD

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of
Marriages, and of the Registrar of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in the District of
Timaru, as the same is described in a Pro-
clamation bearing date the nineteenth day of
February, 1864, and published in this Gazette.
This appointment to take effect from the
1st day of April next.

WILLIAM Fox.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd Feb., 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

LAWRENCE LAWSON BROWN

to be Registrar of Marriages, and Registrar
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, in the
District of Geraldine, as the same is described
in a Proclamation bearing date the nine-
teenth day of February, 1864, and published
in this Gazette.
This appointment to take effect from the
1st day of April next.

WILLIAM Fox.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 16th February, 1864.

THE following Notice, received from the
Government of Mauritius, as to the esta-
blishment of a new Lighthouse, is published for
general information. — "Provincial Gazettes."

WILLIAM Fox.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.

No. 122 of 1863.

His Honour the Officer Administering the
Government directs it to be notified for
general information that, on and after the 1st
March next, a fixed Dioptric Light of the
First Order will be exhibited on Isle-aux-
Fouquets, a small Islet on the edge on the reef
a mile to the North of the Southern entrance
of the Port of Mahebourg in the Island of
Mauritius.

A detailed description of, and sailing direc-
tions for making this Light, are published
below for general information.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
4th November, 1863.

EDW. E. RUSHWORTH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

MAURITIUS.

SAILING DIRECTIONS IN REFERENCE TO THE
LIGHTHOUSE ON ISLE AUX FOUQUETS,
GRAND PORT.

1. The Lighthouse is built upon a small
   Island called Ile aux Fouquets, in latitude 20°

24' 20" South, and longitude 57° 45′ 9" East.
It marks the Southern entrance to Grand
Port, and is 880 yards to the E.N.E. of Ile
Passe; there is a small islet between them.
2. Ile de Passe, which bounds Grand Port
entrance to the Northward, is easily known
by the Battery and other Buildings thereon;
there are times when rollers entirely block the
Pass, although the depth is from 14 to 22
fathoms; but, generally speaking, the reefs
on either hand are perfectly visible from the
foreyard.
3. The island on which the Lighthouse is
built is 3 miles to the Eastward of the nearest
point of the mainland, and on the very edge
of the Coral Reef which skirts this part of the
coast of Mauritius; the Lighthouse (as well
as the adjacent buildings) is white; its ground
line is 39 feet above the mean sea level, and
it forms a most conspicuous object, which
cannot possibly be mistaken.
4. The Lighthouse serves as a guide to
vessels passing Grand Port by day or by
night.
5. The apparatus is a Dioptric of the First
Order, showing a fixed white light from sunset
to sunrise, visible in every direction from
seaward, but dark on the land side. The
light (focal plane) is 1084 feet above the mean
sea level (the rise of the tide being 3 feet), and
in clear weather can be seen at a distance of
16 nautical miles from the deck of a vessel 12
feet above the water.
6. There is a Government pilot in Mahe-
bourg, who will in a few months be stationed
at the Lighthouse, and who will board ships
bound to Mahebourg on their making the
usual signal.
7. Vessels bound to Mahebourg may ap-
proach the Light on any bearing from N. by
E. to W. by S.; when about 2 miles from
it they should heave to, with the head off shore,
until the pilot comes alongside.
8. Should it be desired to get into shelter
as soon as possible, approach the Light under
easy sail till within about 3 of a mile, in order
to avoid a shoal patch of 6 fathoms off Pointe
Laverdie, which is the extreme point of the
Coral Reef bounding the South side of the
entrance of Grand Port; steer so as to round
Ile-de-Passe at the distance of a mile, as a
Spit runs out from its South side for about a
cable's length; then haul to the Northward,
and anchor in 18 to 20 fathoms; it is, how-
ever, not recommended to attempt the fore-
going without a pilot, except in cases of extreme
necessity.
9. A vessel coming from the Southward,
and bound to Port Louis, round the North end
of the island of Mauritius, the usual track,
should, after sighting Grand Port Light, steer
so as to pass it at a distance of about 4 miles;
when, at that distance, the Light bears W.
by S., a N. N. E. E. course for 9 miles will,
if the weather be clear, bring a vessel in sight
of Flat Island Revolving Light, bearing about
N. by W. W.; the course can then be
shaped as required.