THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Results of Trial Trip of the s. s. "Tararua" in
Auckland Harbor, 29th April, 1865.
Weather, clear; wind, very light; water, smooth.
First run (with slight tide), average revolutions
of engines, 78; average vacuum, 26 in.; average pres-
sure in boilers, 21 1/2 lbs.; time, 4 min. 55 sec.; speed,
12.203 knots.
Second run (against slight tide), average revolu-
tions of engines, 76; average vacuum, 25 in.; average
pressure in boilers, 21 lbs., time, 5 min. 36 sec.;
speed, 10.714 knots.
Third run (with tide), average revolutions of
engines, 76; average vacuum, 26 1/2 in.; average pres-
sure in boilers, 20 lbs.; time, 4 min. 30 sec.; speed,
13.333 knots.
Fourth run (against tide), average revolutions of
engines, 26; average vacuum, 26 in.; average pres-
sure in boilers, 20 lbs.; time, 6 min.; speed, 10 knots.
Mean speed of the four runs, 11.562 knots per
hour.
Particulars of hull, &c.-Length, 220 ft.; breadth,
28 ft.; depth, 18 ft.; draught (light) 13 ft. aft, 10 ft.
6 in. forward; rig, barque; decks, two; tonnage,
572 tons register; official number, 50088; port of
registry, London.
Particulars of engines, &c.-Inverted direct acting
condensing; diameter of cylinders, 46 in.; length of
stroke, 30 in.; pitch of screw, 19 ft. 6 in.; diameter
of ditto, 12 ft.; number of blades, two; number of
boilers, two; description of ditto, multitubular, three
furnaces each; coal carried in bunkers, 260 tons.
Hull, engines, and boilers by Messrs. Gourlay
Brothers, Dundee, 1864.
RICHARD AYLMER,
Engineer Surveyor.
Marine Board Office,
Auckland, May 1, 1865.
The Under Secretary, Native Secretary's Department,
to frank Letters on the Public Service free from
pre-payment of Postage.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorise
THE UNDER SECRETARY, NATIVE DEPARTMENT,
to frank, free from pre-payment, Official Letters and
Packets addressed from the Native Secretary's Office
on the Public Service.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.
MARINE BOARD.
Notice to Mariners. -Dog Island Lighthouse.
REFERRING to a Notice issued by the Board of
Trade, dated 1st March, 1865, stating that the
Light on Dog Island, Foveaux Strait, would be ex-
hibited during the month of April, 1865, it has been
found that through unavoidable delays the above light
will not be in readiness for permanent exhibition
before the end of July.
CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1865.
CUSTOMS.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned
person has been duly licensed, under clause 16
of "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858," to act as a
Custom House Agent at the Port of Wellington,
until the 31st December, 1865.
DANIEL MCINTYRE, Custom House Street.
W. SEED,
Deputy Commissioner.
Custom House, Wellington, 24th June, 1865.

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Customs.
THE Bonded Warehouse lately in the occupation
of Messrs. Thornton, Smith and Firth, compri-
sing the half of a lower storey of a brick and stone
building, in the rear of Messrs. Combes and Daldy's
premises, Lower Queen-street, Auckland, having an
entrance from a lane turning off from Fort-street, has
been transferred to Messrs. Walter Combes and
William Crush Daldy, and will for the future be
known as-
MESSRS. COMBES AND DALDY'S WAREHOUSE.
W. YOUNG,
Deputy Commissioner.
Auckland, 26th June, 1865.
Customs.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned
Warehouse has been duly approved as a
Bonding Warehouse, under clause 11 "Customs
Regulation Act, 1858," in the Port of Auckland :
A brick and stone two-storied building in the rear
of Messrs. J. S. Macfarlane and Co's. free store,
Lower Queen-street, Auckland, having an entrance
from a lane turning off from Fort-street, in the occu-
pation of Messrs. J. S. Macfarlane and Co., and
known as-
J. S. MACFARLANE AND CO'S. WAREHOUSE.
W. YOUNG,
Deputy Commissioner.
Auckland, 26th June, 1865.
Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 30th June, 1865.
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 :
Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend GEORGE S. HARPER,
GEORGE B. QUILTY.
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 31st of January; No. 12, of
the 8th of April; No. 13, of the 25th of April; and
No. 18, of the 31st of May; and No. 22, of the 27th
of June, in the present year.
Given under my hand at Auckland, this
thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.
Notice under "Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860."
I JOHN BOYLE BENNETT, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Provinces of Auckland
and Hawke's Bay, in the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby notify that I have registered a Memorandum
of Association, with Articles of Association annexed,
establishing a Company (with limited liability of the
Shareholders therein) entitled,
"THE UNION-REEF GOLD MINING COMPANY
(Limited),"
the object of which is "the mining or working a
gold-bearing Reef at Coromandel, and the doing
of all such other things as are conducive to the
attainment of the above object;"
And that in pursuance of the provisions of "The
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I have issued a