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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Coast of the Middle Island, has detected certain
errors in the published charts as under:-

AMOUNT OF ERROR IN PUBLISHED CHARTS AND "NEW ZEALAND PILOT."
NAME OF PLACE.
POSITION FROM RECENT SURVEY.
POSITION FROM ADMIRALTY CHARTS
AND "NEW ZEALAND PILOT."
REMARKS.
Longitude.
Error in
Error in Nautic
Miles.
True bearing of
Error.
South Latitude.
East Longitude.
South Latitude.
East Longitude.
Error in
Latitude.
Hokitika
42° 49' 55"
170° 54'
42° 42' 52" 5 170° 58' 51"
0° 7' 2"5
0° 4' 51"
7.8
Ν. 26° 49' Ε.
True position is nearly 8 nautic
miles N.E. by N.N. of the
position shown on Chart.
Abut Head...
43° 12' 45"
170° 9"
43° 6' 5"
170° 16' 59"-9
0° 6' 40"
° 7'59"9
8.86
Ν. 41° 12' Ε. True position is nearly 9 nautic
and in "New Zealand Pilot."
Okarita
6.0
Ν. 41° Ε.
Work not completely reduced: the
true position is about 6 nautic
miles N.E.N. (approx.) of
the position shown on the
Chart.
Yellow Cliff)
or
Otorokua
43° 26' 10"
169° 50' 40"
43° 24' 50"
169° 49' 46"
0° 1' 20"
0° 0' 54"
1.5
Ν. 26° 12' Ε. True position nearly 1½ nautic
mile to the N.E. by N.N.
(fully) of the position shown
on the Chart.

The recent surveys, so far as yet completed, have
only embraced the coast line from Jackson's Head
(which is correct on the charts) to Grey River, and
the whole of the coast line between these points is
more or less out in the public charts; it may con-
sequently be inferred that the coast line north of the
Grey is to some extent inaccurate, and mariners are
therefore cautioned, and warned to exercise great
care in approaching or coasting the land at night.

As an additional incentive to caution, it may be
stated that it has several times been reported by
officers commanding steamers on the coast, that it is
necessary to steer half a point to the westward of the
course indicated by the charts, in shaping a course
from Perpendicular Point, in order to clear Cape
Foulwind.

The above notice, published at the request of
Commodore Rowley Lambert, C.B., Senior Officer
on the Australian Station, will affect Sheets 13 and
14 of the New Zealand Charts (Admiralty Nos.
2590 and 2591); also pp. 260, 261, and 289 of the
third (1864) edition of "The New Zealand Pilot."

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

Marine Department,
Wellington, New Zealand,
6th May, 1869.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th May, 1869.

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 names of Officiating Ministers,
within the meaning of the said Act, are published for
general information :-

The United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend THOMAS LITCHFIELD STANLEY.

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend JOSEPH HENRY SIMMONDS.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAMES of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 4, of the 29th of January; No. 5, of
the 8th of February; No. 15, of the 19th of March;
No. 16, of the 25th of March; No. 18, of the 1st of
April; and No. 22, of the 17th of April, and No. 23,
of the 27th of April, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
fourth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the General
Rules and Regulations under "The Divorce
and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867," that His Honor
Mr. JUSTICE GRESSON will sit in Court for the
despatch of business under the said Act, on Tuesdays
in every week, at the Supreme Court Chambers,
Christchurch, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, unless
the Court be otherwise engaged.

By order,
EDWARD S. WILLCOCKS,
Supreme Court Office,
Christchurch, 1st May, 1869.
Registrar.