THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 619

office under the provisions of "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1867."
Dated the 17th day of December, 1868.
W. GISBORNE
(for the Registrar).

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th December, 1868.

THE following Notice to Mariners, announcing an
alteration on the light at Port Adelaide, and
the erection of Leading Beacons at Port Wakefield,
Gulf St Vincent, are published for general informa-
tion.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Port Adelaide-Alteration of Light.
Variation, 5° 30' East. High water, F. and C., 5 hours; rise
and fall ordinary springs, eight (8) feet.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lights now ex-
hibited from the Lightship, at the entrance of the
Port Adelaide Creek, will be discontinued on the 1st
January, 1869, and that a fixed light will be exhibited
on the south side of the Outer Bar of the creek in
lieu thereof.

The new light, which is of the fourth order, on the
catadioptric principle, will be shown from an iron
tower, fifty (50) feet above high-water, and will be
visible from all points seaward at a distance of
fourteen (14) miles in clear weather, from the deck
of an ordinary sized ship.

During the prevalence of warm weather, when
much refraction exists, the light will be seen at a
greater distance than above stated.

The tower is erected near the end of the South Sand,
on the south side of the Outer Bar channel, in
seven (7) feet at low-water spring tides.

The navigable channel for large vessels is seventy
(70) yards to the northward of the Lighthouse, in
which at the present time there is a depth of
thirteen (13) feet at low-water ordinary spring tides,
the rise and fall at springs being eight (8) feet.

The following sailing directions are published in
lieu of those hitherto observed, in consequence of the
removal of the Lightship and the erection of the
Lighthouse at the Bar:---

Ships having, in conformity to the general direc-
tions, cleared Troubridge Shoals, and being in a fair
berth for proceeding up the Gulf, should endeavour
to make the Lighthouse on a bearing from N.N.E. to
N.E. in a heavy ship, carefully avoiding bringing it
to the northward of N. by E., in order to avoid the
Wonga Shoal, lying to the southward of the jetty.

The most convenient anchorage will be found with
the Lighthouse from N. by E. to N.N.E. and the red
light on the jetty from E. by S. to E.S.E. In this
position will be found upwards of five (5) fathoms on
a sandy bottom.

The pilots now board ships from the jetty, the
cutters formerly used being laid up.

The tidal signals now exhibited from the flagstaff
at the Semaphore will be shown from a flagstaff on
the Lighthouse platform.

Port Wakefield, Gulf St. Vincent.
Bearings Magnetic, var. 5° 50' East in 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given, that two leading beacons
have been placed on Bald Hill, for the purpose of
indicating the best anchorage for large vessels;
also that beacons have been driven in the banks on
the edge of the channel recently deepened outside the
entrance of the creek, in order to mark the same.

Beacons on Bald Hills. The upper beacon on
Bald Hill is triangular, painted red, and is sixteen
(16) feet in height, from which the lower white

beacon, also triangular, and twenty (20) feet in
height, is placed north 87° west, at a distance of nine
hundred and sixty-six (966) feet.

Bald Hill.—Bald Hill is the termination of the
low wooded range rising above the mangrove swamp
to the southward of the town; the spot where the
upper beacon is placed being about fifty (50) feet
above high-water mark.

The two beacons in line and the low mangrove
point below Bald Hill bearing south-east by east
two-thirds east, and the red buoy off the spit south
three-fourths east, place a ship in four (4) fathoms at
low-water spring tides.

Large vessels approaching the anchorage should
shorten sale on passing the buoy, and be ready to
round-to before the beacons are in line, so as to
anchor in the position before indicated.

Channel Beacons.—The beacons on the banks of
the channel leading to the creek consist of a black
beacon on the west side of the entrance, having a
round top, and a red beacon opposite on the east side,
having a lozenge-shaped head. A similar black and
red beacon are placed inside.

Caution.—Masters of barges and others are
cautioned against coming into collision with these
beacons, as all injury or damage done thereto is
recoverable by law.

These directions are to be read with those published
by this office in September, 1866.

B. DOUGLAS, Lieut. R.N.R.,
President Marine Board, S.A.

Marine Board Office, Port Adelaide,
Oct. 12, 1868.

ROBERT CHAPMAN, Esq., Official Administrator
of Intestate Estates at Otago, in account with
the Estate of WILLIAM MAY, of Switzers Diggings,
Hotel Keeper, deceased, intestate.
1866. DR. £ s. d.
May 10. By cash from Commissioner of Police, being
deceased's share of partnership property
of the firm of Dupp and May ................................... 38 1 8
Sept. 18. By cash paid to Colonial Sub-Treasurer,
Otago, pursuant to Judge's order .......................... £13 15 2
£38 1 8

1866. CR. £ s. d.
      May 10. Paid Edgar Dupp, funeral expenses ................... 17 9 0
      ", 28. Paid swearing and filing one affidavit. 5s.;
      order, 6s.... .......................................................... 0 11 0
      June 8. Paid letters of administration, 30s.;
      balance sheet, 7s. 6d. ........................................... 1 17 6
      July 10. Paid advertising in Daily Times for claims 0 12 0
      Sept. 6. Paid advertising in News Letter for claims ...... 0 16 0
      Sept. 6. Paid Registrar's commission .............................. 3 1 0
      Balance ...................................................................... 13 15 2
      £38 1 8 £38 1 8

ROBERT CHAPMAN, Esq., Official Administrator
of Intestate Estates at Otago, in account with
the Estate of JOHN MOORE, deceased, intestate.
1863. DR. £ s. d.
April 24. By cash from Bank of New Zealand, pro-
ceeds of deposit receipt ....................................... 50 0 0
By cash from Bank of New Zealand, pro-
ceeds of deposit receipt with interest ..................... 25 3 6
£75 3 6

1863. CR. £ s. d.
      July. Paid advertising in Times ................................... 0 3 0
      Paid advertising in Telegraph ........................... 0 4 0
      Paid advertising in Wakatip Mail ...................... 0 5 0
      Nov. 2. Paid Court fees of administration and
      advertising balance sheet ....................................... 2 13 6
      ", 6. Paid Administrator's commission ........................ 6 0 0
      ", 6. Paid James Moore, on account of claim ................ 65 18 0
      £75 3 6