chains and surmounted by a can, 2 feet high and
1 foot in diameter.
Unless the Snag is swept away in a flood, the
Beacon is only liable to be destroyed by drift-wood
or by small craft fouling it during the night; and
Shipmasters are hereby cautioned and requested to
use every endeavour to keep clear of it. They are
further warned not to trust too implicitly in its
permanence, but to pay close attention to the leading
Beacons and steering Signals.
JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

Nos. 28 and 29 of 1869.
Marine Department.
Wellington, 26th October, 1869.

THE following Notices to Mariners announcing
the further shoaling of the Bar, South Entrance,
Moreton Bay, and intimating that, from and after the
31st day of March next, Marryatt's Code of Signals
will neither be used from nor recognised by any
Signal Station, Pilot Vessel, nor Light Ship in the
Colony of Queensland, are published for general
information.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
South Entrance to Moreton Bay.

MASTERS of Coasting Steamers using this Passage
are cautioned that the entrance has shoaled one foot
since the publication of the Notice to Mariners
dated July 2nd, there being now upon the bar only
a depth of 12 feet at low water.

Care should still be taken not to cross the bar to
the southward of the line of beacons, as, with the
beacons thus open about four times their own width,
the depth of water does not exceed some $8\frac{1}{2}$ feet at
low water.

Immediately the outer edge of the bar is crossed,
a vessel should haul well up to the southward (due
allowance being made for tide), to clear the discoloured
water to the eastward of the North Break; when the
beacons are open to the southward about four or five
times their own width, a vessel can keep away for the
cross the line of beacons before reaching the South
Spit. From thence a course can be steered for the
red buoy, as usual.

Until the banks become again stationary, and a
better channel has formed, the bar should be taken
only in smooth water and under favourable circum-
stances.

On the bar of the new channel, which has opened
out to the north-east, there is not a greater depth
than 7 feet at low water.

G. P. HEATH,
Commander R.N., Portmaster.
Department of Port and Harbours,
Brisbane, September 24th, 1869.

NOTICE TO MASTERS, OWNERS, AND AGENTS OF
VESSELS.

Discontinuance of the use of Marryatt's Code of Signals.

ON and after the 31st March, 1870, Marryatt's
Code of Signals will cease to be used from, or
recognized by, any Signal Station, Pilot Vessel, or
Light Ship in this Colony; all communication by
signal being thenceforward made only by the
Commercial Code.

G. P. HEATH,
Commander R.N., Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 2nd October, 1869.

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NOTICE is hereby given, that an application was,
on the twenty-second day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, made to His
Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by John Chew and Edward Carter, of
Porirua, in the Province of Wellington, praying for
a grant to them, the said John Chew and Edward
Carter, of Letters Patent under the Seal of the said
Colony, for the exclusive use, advantage, and enjoy-
ment of a new invention to separate and obtain
the fibre from the leaf of the New Zealand Flax
(Phormium tenax), and from all cuticle and gummy
matter, by means of pressure, and passing the leaf
between several sets of rollers, and in the passage
from one set of rollers to another, ejecting from
pipes upon the leaf either cold or warm water, or
water and steam, the water being either pure or
mixed with alkali. And notice is hereby given, that
any person who may wish to prefer any objections to
the granting of such Letters Patent, is hereby
required, within four calendar months from the
publication of this notice, to send to the office of
John Boyle Bennett, Esquire, Registrar-General, at
Wellington, in the Province of Wellington, in the
said Colony of New Zealand, being the person
appointed for that purpose under the provisions of
"The Patents Act, 1860," a statement in writing
showing the grounds of such objection, and sub-
scribed with the proper name and address of the
person so objecting.

417 BRANDON AND QUICK,
Solicitors for John Chew and Edward Carter.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Copartnership
carried on for some time past at Wellington by
John Chew and Thomas Wagg, under the firm of
"Chew and Wagg," as Saw-mill Proprietors and
Timber Merchants, was this day dissolved by mutual
consent. John Chew is empowered to discharge and
settle all debts due by the said Copartnership
concern, and all moneys due to the said firm must be
paid to the said John Chew.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of October, 1869.
JOHN CHEW,
THOMAS WAGG.

Witness—W. H. Quick, Solicitor, Wellington. 418

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The following Acts,
passed during the Session of the Assembly,
1869, are now published, and can be procured from
the Government Printer. Copies forwarded to any
part of the Colony, post free, at the following
prices:-

Act.
No. 1. Imprest Supply
" 2. Treasury Bills
" 3. Enquiry into Wrecks
" 4. Restriction on Marine Re-assurance Removal
" 5. Merchant Shipping Acts Adoption
" 6. Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868, Amendment
" 7. Public Payments without Probate
" 8. Nelson Marriages
" 9. Southland Provincial Debt Acts Amendment
" 10. Auckland Gold Fields Proclamations Validation...
" 11. Otago Settlements
" 12. Nelson and Cobden Railway Act Amendment
" 13. Canterbury Waste Lands...
" 14. Naval and Military Settlers
" 15. Wellington and Hawke's Bay Public Debt
Apportionment Act Extension
" 16. Provincial Elections Act Amendment
" 17. Military Contribution
" 18. Mining Companies Limited Liability Act Amend-
ment
" 19. Railways
" 20. Disturbed Districts
" 21. Intestate Estates Act Amendment
" 22. Otago Hundreds Regulation
" 23. Public Revenues (No. 2)
" 24. Shortland Beach
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