THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 495

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

THE GOVERNMENT AGENT for the PROVINCE of
HAWKE'S BAY and EAST COAST
to frank and receive Letters and Parcels "On the
Public Service only," free by post.

By order,
G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

MEMBERS of the FLAX COMMISSION
to frank and receive free by Post, Letters and Packets
indorsed "Flax Commission. On Public Service
only."

By order,
G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 23 of 1869.
Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th September, 1869.

THE following Special Night Signals are authorized
to be used at the Ports of New Plymouth and
Waitara.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

SPECIAL NIGHT SIGNALS, NEW PLYMOUTH.
From Shore.

A Boat will come off.—Two red lights vertical (in-
stead of white lights, as appointed by the
General Harbour Regulations, 1868.) See
Notes A and B.

From Vessels in the Roadstead.

A Pilot wanted.—Two white lights horizontal, with
one red over, forming a triangle. (See Notes A
and B.)

SPECIAL NIGHT SIGNALS, WAITARA.
From the Shore.

Take the Bar.—Two red lights, vertical. (See Notes
A and C.)

Bar Dangerous.—Two lights vertical, red over white.
(See Notes A and D.)

From Vessels off the Waitara.

Want to come in before Daylight.—Two white lights
horizontal, with one red over, forming a triangle.
(See Note B.)

NOTE A.

In all signals described in the General Regulations
and in these Special Regulations as two lights ver-
tical (of whatever colour), the two lights will be so
arranged as to serve for leading lights, the upper light
being on the flagstaff in each case, and the lower light
at some distance in front of it.

At New Plymouth, the two lights will appear ver-
tical when a vessel is in the line of the anchorage, the
flagstaff bearing S.E. magnetic.

At the Waitara the two lights will appear vertical
when the centre of the channel is in line with the
flagstaff, the post carrying the lower light being
shifted, in accordance with the shifting of the channel.

The ordinary signal "Wait for Daylight," white
over red, will be kept up when vessels are expected
or are seen approaching the Ports of New Plymouth
and Waitara.

NOTE B.
Vessels approaching New Plymouth at night, and
requiring a Pilot, or approaching the Waitara, and
wanting to come in before daylight, should fire a gun
and burn blue lights, if possible, to secure attention.

NOTE C.
The signal "Take the Bar" will not be shown
except in answer to a signal from the vessel "Cannot
wait" or "Cannot keep to sea" [see General Regu-
lations], unless there is reason to expect very bad
weather before morning.

In that case it will be put up as soon as the bar is
fit to take, but masters of vessels must in all cases
use their own judgment as to whether they will come
in by night or not.

When the signal "Cannot wait" or "Cannot keep
to sea" is made from a vessel approaching the Wai-
tara at night before the tide serves for the bar, it will
be acknowledged by covering the lower light of the
signal which is up at the flagstaff for a short time.
The signal "Take the Bar" will then be made as soon
as the tide serves; but if there is great risk in coming
in, the signal "Bar dangerous" will be hoisted
immediately before "Take the Bar," and the two
together will mean that the tide is right but the bar
is unsafe.

NOTE D.
The signal "Bar dangerous" means, either that the
bar is rough, or that a strong fresh is running out.
JOHN H. HOLFORD.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 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 name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published
for general information :—

The Reverend JAMES MARTIN (of Akaroa).

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 (under the pro-
visions of the 42nd section of the said Act, as
amended by "The Marriage Act Amendment Act,
1868,") 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; No. 22, of the 17th of
April; No. 23, of the 27th of April; No. 25, of the
13th of May; No. 31, of the 3rd of June; No. 32,
of the 11th of June; No. 34, of the 26th of June;
No. 37, of the 6th of July, and No. 42 of the 6th
of August, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirteenth day of September, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Christchurch, 4th September, 1869.

I, EDWARD DENHAM, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Province of Canter-
bury, do hereby notify that I have registered a
Memorandum of Association, with Articles of Asso-
ciation annexed, establishing a Company, with limited