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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

effected once, and once only, by a British Minister or
Consul in Foreign Parts. The Passport confers on
the bearer no claim to British protection in the
country of his birth.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1866.

THE following letter, from the Secretary in Mel-
bourne of the Paris Universal Exhibition to be
held in 1867, is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
64, Elizabeth Street,
Melbourne, 1st October, 1866.

SIR,-Referring to the subject of the several
Colonies of Australia forming one Australasian Court
at the above Exhibition, which has been already
brought under the notice of the authorities in each
Colony, and favorably received:

I have now the honor to submit to your Excellency,
on behalf of the Commissioners for Victoria, the
importance of taking steps without delay for the pur-
pose of carrying out the above scheme.

It will be generally admitted that one of the most
important exhibits to be sent from Australia to Paris
will be wool, and the accompanying sketch will, it is
hoped, indicate in a satisfactory manner the advan-
tages to be derived from the Colonies generally
agreeing to a plan of union as here laid down.

By the last outgoing mail a circular was addressed
to the Victorian Commissioners for the Paris Exhibi-
tion, named in the margin,* inviting them to seek the
co-operation in London or Paris of the representatives
of the other Australian Colonies, for the purpose of
making arrangements to carry out the proposal so
brought forward.

While proposing so to fuse the several Colonies
into one whole, it is by no means necessary that any
interference should take place with the space allotted
to each, or with the details of exhibition. All that
can be suggested on this side is, that the several
Colonial Commissioners for Paris should meet at the
earliest moment, and endeavour to agree on some
general base of action, whereby the products of each
Colony should be shown to the best advantage, while
at the same time the effect of one united and com-
prehensive whole, may be thoroughly carried out.

I may point out that the wool from Victoria was
exhibited in the form of a triumphal arch at the
Exhibition of 1862, and as that mode was greatly
admired, there are no practical difficulties in the way
of carrying out the arrangement of this staple in the
form indicated; and, as full details have been for-
warded to our Commissioners in London as to the
mode of construction, it will be only necessary that
each Colony should send, say eight bales, as its quota
for the trophy, while the separate cost of producing
this aggregate effect will be but trifling.

I shall be happy to supply any further information
on this subject that you may require, and would
respectfully request that you might favor our Com-
missioners with your views on this matter at your
early convenience.

I have, &c.,
J. G. KNIGHT, Secretary.

To His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1866.

THE following Notice to Mariners, issued by the
Government of the Colony of Victoria, is pub-
lished for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

• Mr. W. F. De Salis, 38, Cannon Street, London; Mr. J. J.
  Nankivell, Mr. Thomas Randall, Mr. Thomas Sellar.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

ADDITIONAL LIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE TO GEELONG
HARBOUR; ALSO, NOTICE OF ALTERATIONS IN
BUOYS AND BEACONS, PORT PHILLIP BAY.

1. Notice is hereby given that the beacon on the
   north end of Symond's Spit has been washed away;
   another beacon will be placed on the same spit in a
   few days.

Frankston Jetty.

2. The jetty at Frankston having now been
   extended into twelve feet water, the moorings and
   buoy have been removed.

Buoys.---West Channel.

3. As several vessels have of late got foul of, and
   done serious damage to, the Swan Bay and No. 12
   Elbow buoys, it has been found necessary to shift the
   former close in shore. Masters of vessels and others
   navigating this channel are hereby informed that the
   ascertained depth of the water, in a straight line from
   buoy to buoy, on both sides of the West Channel does
   not exceed sixteen feet.

Light at the entrance of the Geelong Harbour.

4. With the view of facilitating the navigation of
   the channel into Geelong Harbour at night, a red
   light will, on and after the twenty-fourth day of next
   month, be exhibited from sunset to sunrise from a
   lantern placed on the first red dolphin, inshore of the
   lightship.

Geelong Harbour Buoys.---Removal of the Lady Peel
Black Buoy.

5. This buoy having ceased to be of service has
   been removed.

South-east Black Buoy.

6. This buoy, which was placed on the north-west
   end of sand off Bird Rock, has been removed, it being
   no longer required.

CHARLES FERGUSON,
Chief Harbour Master..

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 27th August, 1866.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1866.

THE following Notice to Mariners, issued by the
Admiralty, is published
for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 37.]

[The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on
board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it;
and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of
the Sailing Directions to which it relates, See Instructions,
Navigation, and Pilotage, p. 172.]

AUSTRALIA-EAST COAST.

Temporary Light on Gatcombe Head, Port Curtis.

The Government of Queensland has given Notice
that a temporary light, 50 feet above the sea, has
recently been established on that part of Gatcombe
Head north-west of the Oyster Rock, entrance to
Port Curtis.

Vessels entering Port Curtis at night by the North
channel, should bring the light to bear about S.W.
by W. W., being careful to keep it well open of
Settlement Point, in order to avoid the rocks
extending from that point.

Light Vessel at Upper Flats, Fitzroy River.

A Light Vessel has also been moored head and
stern, in the position of the large black buoy, at the
crossing place at the Upper Flats in Fitzroy River.
The vessel shows a red light at the masthead, and by
day and night the following tidal signals are exhibited: