THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 17

Each tender is to be accompanied with a deposit
of £25 as a guarantee of good faith, which sum will
be forfeited should any tenderer refuse to sign the
contract in the event of his tender being accepted.
Specifications can be seen and full particulars
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tion of Telegraph between Masterton and Castle
Point," to be sent in not later than twelve noon on
the 1st February, 1867.

JOHN HALL,
Electric Telegraph Commissioner.
New Zealand Government Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 21st December, 1866.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th December, 1866.

STEAM Navigation Act, 1866. The attention of
Owners and Masters of Steam Vessels above
fifty tons register is called to the twenty-sixth section
of the above cited Act, which requires that from and
after the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven, all sea-going steamers above
fifty tons register shall be provided with at least one
boat fitted with Clifford's patent lowering apparatus,
or other patent lowering apparatus of approved form.
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and sixty-seven, this clause will not be enforced to
the extent of preventing steamers running unless so
fitted, but after that date no vessel will be allowed to
ply unless fitted as required by the Act.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th December, 1866.

IT is hereby notified for public information that in
consequence of the opinion expressed in the
Report of the Court of Enquiry into the cause of
the wreck of the s.s. "Thane," on the North Beach,
Greymouth, New Zealand, on the 21st September,
1866 (in which opinion I concur),—

The Engineer's Certificate, No. 77, New Zealand,
issued to EDMUND WILCOX has been cancelled.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

Compensation Court Office,
Auckland, 21st December, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the
Compensation Court will be holden at Opotiki
on Thursday, the seventh day of March, 1867, for the
purpose of hearing and determining the claims of
persons to compensation on account of the taking,
under the authority of "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," of the block of land hereinunder
described:

BAY OF PLENTY DISTRICT.

All that land bounded by a line commencing at the
mouth of the Waitahanui River, Bay of Plenty, and
running due south for a distance of twenty miles,
thence to the summit of Mount Edgecumbe, Putauaki,
thence by a straight line in an easterly direction to
a point eleven miles due south from the entrance to
the Ohiwa Harbour, thence by a line running due
east for twenty miles, thence by a line to the mouth
of the Aparapara River, and thence following the

Coast line to the point of commencement at
Waitahanui.

ROBT. H. EYTON,
Clerk of the Court.

Kooti Whakawa mo nga whenua kua tangohia,
Akarana, 21 Tihema, 1866.

HE Panuitanga tenei kia mohiotia ai, ka noho te
Kooti whakawa ki Opotiki a te Taite te 7 o nga
ra o Maehe, 1867, hei whakawa i nga take a nga
tangata e pa ana ki nga piihi i te takiwa o te Rawhiti
(District of the Bay of Plenty) e mau nei nga rohe
i raro iho nei, i tangohia i runga i nga tikanga o te
ture mo te pera ("New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863") :

PUKAPUKA TAPIRI TE TAKIWA O TE BAY OF PLENTY.

Ko taua whenua katoa ka timata te rohe ki te wahapu
o te Awa o Waitahanui, ka rere whaka te tonga,
e rua te kau maero, ka maro atu i reira tae noa ki ti
tihi o Putauaki, ka rere whaka te Rawhiti, kotahi te
kau matahi maero whaka te tonga o te Puaha o te
wahapu o Ohiwa, ka rere i reira whaka te Rawhiti
e rua te kau maero, ka rere i reira ki te puaha o te
awa o Araparapa, ka haere e te tahataha moana ki te
timatanga o te rohe ki te wahapu o te Awa o
Waitahanui.

NA TE AITANA,
Kai tuhituhi o te Koote.

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