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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th October, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

PHILLIP MUSSEN, Esq., L.R.C.S.I.,
to be a Member of the Medical Board constituted
15th October, 1866, under "The Military Pensions
Act, 1866."

W. GISBORNE
(in absence of Mr. McLean).

CUSTOMS. - In exercise of the powers in me for
this purpose vested by "The Customs Regula-
tion Act, 1858," I, the Commissioner of Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned
Warehouses-namely,

Port of Hokitika.
A Galvanized Iron Building, situate in Beach
Street, in the Town of Hokitika, in the occupation of
Mr. JOSEPH CHURCHES.

Port of Greymouth.
A portion of a Galvanized Iron Building, situate
on the North Bank of the Lagoon, off Mackay
Street, in the Town of Greymouth, in the occupation
of
Messrs. HAMILTON and NICHOL,
-to be Warehouses for the reception of Goods under
Bond.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this
twenty-first day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Commissioner of Customs.

Commissioner's Order, No. 36.]

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867," notice is hereby given that a transcript of
the Bye-laws of
"The Loyal Prince Alfred Lodge, No. 5,614, of
the Manchester Unity Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, for the Hokitika District,"
duly certified, has been lodged with the Registrar of
Friendly Societies, registered and recorded in his
office under the provisions of "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1867."

Dated the sixteenth day of October, 1869.

ALEX. C. P. MACDONALD
(for the Registrar).

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 26 of 1869.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1869.

THE following Notice to Mariners with respect to
certain dangers in the western part of the South
Pacific Ocean, which has been issued by the Hydro-
graphical Department of the Admiralty, is published
for general information.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

Hydrographic Notice. [No. 18.]

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN-WESTERN PART.

Neptune Reef.-Additional information to that
given in Hydrographic Notice No. 25 of 1868, has
been received from Lieut. G. P. Heath, R.N., the
Port Master at Brisbane, regarding the Neptune
Reef, which lies to the Southward of the Solomon
Islands. The "Neptune," in about latitude 12° 54′
S., longitude 161° 45' W., struck near the middle
of the eastern edge of the reef, which is described
as being sixteen to eighteen miles long by about

seven wide, forming a deep lagoon. The only raised
portion of the reef visible from the ship's topmast
head was a rock about six feet high near the centre
of the eastern side.

Miller Reef.-Information has also been received
from the same authority, of the existence of a reef in
the Coral Sea, supposed to be hitherto unknown,
westward of the Bampton and Bellona Reefs, on which
the barque "Henry Miller" struck in December,
1868. From observations obtained on the reef it was
found to be in latitude 20° 51' S., longitude 158° 02′
E., and appeared to extend about two miles in a
north-west and south-east direction, and to be about
one cable in width. A rise and fall of eighteen
inches at neaps was observed, as also a slight set to
the north-west.

La Brilliante Shoal.-This dangerous reef, dis-
covered in the French corvette "La Brilliante" in
1847, and which had been removed from the charts
in consequence of an unsuccessful search for it made
in 1853 by Captain Denham, of H.M.S. "Herald,"
having been subsequently seen from the British
merchant ship "Creole," nearly in the same position
assigned to it by M. Le Comte Dubouzet, Commander
of "La Brilliante," has been again inserted in lati-
tude 23° 14′ S., longitude 169° 55′ E., as originally
placed.

The shoal is described as a round patch of coral,
about one quarter of a cable in diameter, with one or
one and a half fathom water over it. Two soundings,
in twenty and twenty-three fathoms, were obtained
in its vicinity.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,
14th June, 1869.

*** See Admiralty Charts:-Pacific Ocean, Sheet
VI., No. 2,464; New Caledonia, No. 1,380; and
Coral Sea, Sheet I., No. 2,763.

I, the undersigned THOMAS HAYWOOD, hereby
make application to register "The Waitakerei
Prospecting Gold Mining Company, Registered," under
the provisions 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
   Waitakerei Prospecting Gold Mining Company,
   Registered."

2. The place of operations is the Driving Creek,
   in the Waipareira District, near Waitakerei, in the
   Province of Auckland.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is seven-
   teen thousand two hundred and eighty pounds, in
   three thousand four hundred and fifty-six shares of
   five pounds each.

4. The amount already paid up is eight thousand
   six hundred and forty pounds.

5. The name of the manager is Thomas Haywood.

6. The office of the Company is in High Street,
   in the City of 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 :-

Alfred William East, Dedwood, Auckland ... No. of
Frederick John Von Sturmer, Dedwood, Auck- Shares.
land ... 519
James Johnstone, Auckland ... 468
Benjamin Hill, Auckland ... 552
Joseph Stacy, Auckland ... 552
Charles Holloway, North Shore, Auckland ... 264
Horatio Nelson Warner, Auckland ... 161
John Smyth, Waitakerei, near Auckland ... 168
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