THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

In the No. 2 Company, Hauraki Rifle Volunteers.
Francis Joseph Wardell to be Lieutenant. Date
of commission, 16th March, 1869.
John Charles Young to be Ensign. Date of com-
mission, 16th March, 1869.

In the Thames Engineer Volunteers.
John Gwynneth to be Captain. Date of commission,
18th March, 1869.
Harry Charles William Wrigg to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 18th March, 1869.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers, viz. :-
Ensign H. G. Morecroft, Napier Militia ;
Ensign M. Browne, Napier Militia.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the under-mentioned
corps, viz. :-
The No. 2 Company, Hauraki Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 16th March, 1869.
The Thames Engineer Volunteers. Date of
acceptance, 18th March, 1869.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

CUSTOMS.-The under-mentioned person has been
duly licensed to act as a Custom House Agent
at the Port of Napier, for the year ending the 31st
December, 1869:-
GEORGE EDWARD GORDON RICHARDSON.

JOSEPH MOLIERE TABUTEAU,
Custom House, Napier,
24th March, 1869.
Deputy Commissioner.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
SNAG IN ENTRANCE TO BULLER RIVER.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 7th April, 1869.
NOTICE is hereby given, that there is a large
snag on the Bar of the Buller River, which, in
the present state of the channel, is right in the fair-
way of the North Channel.

The snag will be removed, or marked by buoys
or beacons, as soon as practicable; and in the mean-
time Masters of vessels are warned of its existence,
and requested to observe closely the following
directions:-

When entering in daylight, the flagstaff and the
beacon carrying the red flag must be kept in one,
and, failing this, vessels must be steered in close
accordance with the directions of the semaphore arm
at the flagstaff.

When entering by night, the (outer) red light and
the (inner) bright light must be kept in one, if
practicable, or, failing this, the bright light must
be opened to the S.W. of the red light (or towards
Cape Foulwind).

On no account must the line of the leading lights
be crossed towards the N.E. till the vessel is inside
the Bar.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

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Marine Department,
Wellington, 7th April, 1869.
THE following Notice to Mariners, announcing the
existence of certain dangers in the Inner Route
to Torres Straits, off Lloyd Bay and Pipon Islands, is
published for general information.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAITS.
Lloyd Bay and Pipon Islands.

CAPTAIN EDWARDS, of the "Melanie," reports the
existence, in Lloyd Bay, of a patch of rocks-upon
the N.W. edge of which the vessel touched, and
where there were about five feet at low water-with
the following bearings:--Restoration Island, N. W.;
Peaked Red Hill, S.W. W.

Also, of a small pinnacle, about three feet square,
awash at low water; the point of Cape Direction
bearing E. by S.S.; peak of lump, S. by E.E.;
Lloyd Island being at the same time just open to the
northward of Low Island.

He also reports having seen in the same bay two
rocks just awash, bearing from the small sandbank
S.E., and from X reef S.W. by S.

Also, near the Pipon Islands the "Melanie"
struck on a patch of rocks not laid down in the
charts-North Bay Point bearing S. by E. E., and
the east end of Pipon Islands, S.W. by W.W. As
the tide was about half-ebb when she touched, this
patch cannot have more than three feet of water
upon it at low water.

G. P. HEATH, Lieut., R.N.,
Portmaster.

Port Office, 23rd February, 1869.
I the undersigned EDWARD PRATT, hereby make
application to register "The Marquis of Hastings
Gold Mining Company, Registered," under the pro-
visions of "The Mining Companies Limited Liability
Act, 1865;" and I do solemnly and sincerely declare
that the following statement is, to the best of my
belief and knowledge, true in every particular,
namely:----

1. The name and style of the Company is "The
   Marquis of Hastings Gold Mining Company, Regis-
   tered."

2. The place of operations is at Tapu Creek,
   Hastings.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is four
   thousand pounds, in four thousand shares of one
   pound each.

4. The amount already paid up is nil.

5. The name of the manager is Edward Pratt.

6. The office of the Company is at 49, Queen
   Street, Auckland.

7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders, and the number of shares held by each at
   this date, are as follows:-

No. of
Shares.

Hugh Patterson, Hastings ... ... 121
William Rouse, Hastings ... ... 199
Thomas Racliffe, Hastings ... ... 199
Frederick Noble, Hastings ... ... 143
Robert Dyason, Auckland ... ... 71
Charles Mills, Hastings ... ... 199
Robert Horne, Auckland ... ... 104
George Cotterill, Canterbury ... ... 132
Frederick W. Wright, Parnell ... ... 86
Eliza S. Armstrong, Auckland ... ... 68
Samuel Edmonds, Auckland ... ... 66
George Gunn, Dunedin ... ... 71
Frederick Gerard Armstrong, Auckland ... 171
Fanny Kinder, Auckland ... ... 71