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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 29th March, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
FREDERICK FRANCIS ORMOND, Esq.,
of Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, to be a Justice of the Peace
for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 29th March, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
FREDERICK FRANCIS ORMOND, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the Resident Magis-
trate's District of Wairoa, under "The Resident
Magistrates Act 1867."
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 31st March, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HUGH BUCHANAN, Esq.,
of Kenloch, Banks' Peninsula, Canterbury ;
GEORGE SAMUEL GRAHAM, Esq.,
of Tairua, Auckland; and
GEORGE KELLS, Esq.,
of Howick, Auckland, to be Justices of the Peace
for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
DAVID LUNDON
to be a Licensing Officer under "The Arms
Amendment Act, 1869," for the district called the
Auckland South District, as defined in Proclamation
of the 19th March, 1870, and published in this
Gazette.
The appointment dates from the 19th March, 1870.
W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

General Post Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The CLERK IN CHARGE of the BRANCH OFFICE,
NATIVE and DEFENCE DEPARTMENTS, at
AUCKLAND,
to frank free from prepayment of postage, Letters
and Packets sent through the post on Public Service.
JULIUS VOGEL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The CLERK of the DISTRICT COURT, AUCKLAND,
to frank free from pre-payment of postage, Letters
and Packets sent through the post on the Public
Service.
JULIUS VOGEL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 28th March, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN FIELD DECK, Esq., M.D.,
to be Medical Referee under "The Government
Annuities Act, 1869," for Southland.
W. GISBORNE
(for the Postmaster-General).

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 5 of 1870.
Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
(Marine Branch)
Wellington, 24th March, 1870.
THE following information on the Santa Cruz
Islands and the New Hebrides Group, received
from the Hydrographical Department of the Admi-
ralty, is published for general information.
JULIUS VOGEL.

[It is recommended that the information contained in this
notice should be carefully considered, noted in the Sailing
Directions, and compared with the chart when the ship is
navigating the parts to which it refers.]

HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE. No. 40.
Pacific Ocean, Western Part.
The following information on the Santa Cruz
Islands, and the New Hebrides Group, has been
compiled from letters and observations received from
Navigating Lieutenant Thomas Capel Tilly, R.N., of
the Mission Schooner "Southern Cross."*

[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 9º Easterly in 1869.]
Santa Cruz Islands. The positions obtained of
prominent points in these islands agree fairly with
those of D'Entrecasteaux, and place north point in
lat. 10° 40′ S., long. 166° 0′ 30″ E., and north point
of Tinakula or Volcano Island in lat. 10° 23′ 30″ S.,
long. 165° 47′ 30″ E. There is evidently an error in
Captain Wilson's account of a low island which he
describes as lying S.S.W. from Volcano Island; this
bearing should be N.N.E. which would agree with
the position of an island now known as Nukapu; the
two other islands spoken of as having been seen after
"steering W. by S. about five leagues" would be
Anologo and Nupani.†

The Matema or Swallow Islands, forming part of
the Santa Cruz group, lie to the northward of the
great island, and between the parallels of 10° 4′ and
10° 22′ S., extending from long. 165° 39′ E., to 166°
19' E., occupying an extent of about forty-two miles
in a W. by N. direction from Nimanu, the south-
eastern of the group, to Nupani, the north-western;
they are from 100 to 200 feet above the sea, and are
dangerous from the extensive reefs which stretch out
especially from their western or lee sides. The
inhabitants are rough and fearless; they come off
eagerly to barter mats, bows and arrows, for iron,
and appear to be bold navigators, sailing in their
double canoes as far as Tucopia, which lies about one
hundred and eighty miles to the south-east.

Nimanu, the south-eastern island of the group, is
in lat. 10° 21′ S., long. 166° 17′ E., and lies N.N.E.
25 miles from the eastern high land of Santa Cruz;
it is a small round bold-looking island some 200 feet
high, with apparently deep water all round; there is
a land slip and probable landing-place on its lee side.

Panavi, the eastern island of the group, lies in lat.
10° 17′ S. long. 166° 19′ E., distant about four miles

• See Admiralty Charts: -Pacific Ocean, Sheet VI., No. 2464;
  New Caledonia and New Hebrides Islands, No. 1380.
  † See Findlay's South Pacific Ocean, pages 555 and 556.