THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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either of the said districts, contrary to these regula-
tions.
3. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct
any inspector, or any police constable acting under
the authority of these regulations, every person so
offending may be taken before two Justices of the
Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of fifty
pounds.
4. These regulations shall take effect from and
after the date of publication in the New Zealand
Gazette.

Given under my hand, at Invercargill, this sixth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
JOHN P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1868.
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 name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information :-
Church of Scotland.
The Reverend ALEXANDER CHALMERS SOUTAR.
I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th of January; No. 9, of the
13th of February; No. 13, of the 3rd of March; No.
14, of the 9th of March; No. 18, of the 3rd of
April; No. 19, of the 20th April; No. 22, of the 7th
of May; No. 23, of the 14th of May; No. 25, of the
22nd of May; No. 27, of the 2nd of June; No. 35,
of the 29th of June, and No. 44, of the 20th July,
in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

FAREWELL SPIT, COOK STRAIT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.- Notice is hereby
given that observations taken by the Chief
Marine Surveyor, from the Colonial surveying
steamer "St. Kilda," show that Spit-end or the
extreme eastern end of Farewell Spit has shifted,
and is now about one nautic mile and a quarter to
the north-east of its position as shown on the
Admiralty Chart (sheet No. 7) of New Zealand,
Admiralty number 2,616.
This alteration is not sufficiently great to render
the courses given in the New Zealand Pilot for
clearing this danger unsafe.
JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.
Wellington, 21st July, 1868.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1868.
THE following Notices to Mariners, respecting a
change on the lights exhibited off Tipara
Shoal, Spencer's Gulf, South Australia, and
announcing the exhibition of a fixed light varied by
flashes from the eastern headland of Bustard Head,
Queensland, are published for general information.
JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Surveyor.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Tipara Reef, Spencer's Gulf.
Marine Board Office,
Port Adelaide, 28th May, 1868.
NOTICE is hereby given that the lights at present
exhibited from the lightship, off the Tipara Shoal,
Spencer's Gulf, will be replaced on or about the
thirty-first January next, by a lightship, exhibiting
two fixed bright lights, respectively thirty-eight feet
and twenty-nine feet above water level.
The lights will be on the catoptric principle, and
will be visible from seaward at a distance of about
ten miles in clear weather.
During the prevalence of warm weather, when
much refraction often exists, the lights will occa-
sionally be seen at a greater distance than above
stated.
Further notice will be given when the precise date
of the alteration of the lights can be stated.
B. DOUGLAS,
President of the Marine Board, South Australia.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The Treasury,
Queensland, 30th June, 1868.
THE following Notice to Mariners respecting the
lighthouse recently erected at Bustard Head, and
the light to be exhibited therefrom, is published for
general information.
R. R. MACKENZIE.

Light at Bustard Head.
On and after the twenty-ninth instant, a dioptric
light of the second order will be exhibited from the
eastern headland of Bustard Head. It will show as a
fixed light every alternate minute, the intervening
minutes being occupied by a bright flash, preceded
and followed by a short eclipse.
The tower from which the light is exhibited is
painted white and is thirty-three (33) feet high
---the light standing at an elevation of three hundred
and twenty (320) feet above the level of the sea, and
being visible from the deck of a small vessel about
twenty-three miles.
The outer rock lying off Bustard Head bears from
the lighthouse N. five degrees E., distant about three
(3) miles.
G. P. HEATH, Lieut. R.N.,
Portmaster.

NOTICE TO MASTERS AND ENGINEERS OF
STEAMERS.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1868.
THE following Notice, announcing that Masters'
and Engineers' certificates granted by any duly
constituted tribunal in any British possession will be
recognised in the Colony of Victoria, reprinted from
the Victoria Government Gazette (No. 69), of 5th
June, 1868, is issued for general information.
JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

"PASSENGERS, HARBOURS, AND NAVIGATION
STATUTE, 1865."
IT is hereby notified for general information that
under the 80th section of "The Passengers, Harbours,
and Navigation Statute, 1865," His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to approve of the Steam
Navigation Board of Victoria recognising certificates
of Masters, Mates, and Engineers granted by any
duly constituted tribunal in any British possession,
for the purposes of the above-mentioned Act.
WM. BAYLES,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Department of Trade and Customs,
Melbourne, 4th June, 1868.