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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 16th May, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
GEORGE SAMUEL WEGG HORNE, Esq.,
to be Crown Prosecutor, under "The District Courts
Act, 1858," for the District of Westland North, vice
W. Pitt, Esq., resigned.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 20th May, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM HORTON REVELL, Esq.,
of Greymouth, to be a Coroner within the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 16th May, 1870.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to the Com-
missioner of Customs by His Excellency the
Governor,
JAMES HACKWORTH, Esq.,
has been appointed Collector of Customs and Land-
ing Surveyor at the Port of Wellington. This
appointment takes effect from the 1st April, 1870.
JULIUS VOGEL,
Commissioner.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 18th May, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
GEORGE FREDERICK HARRIS,
of Her Majesty's Customs, to superintend the survey
and admeasurement of ships, under the provisions of
"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," at the Port of
Wellington; also to be Emigration Officer at the
Port of Wellington.
JULIUS VOGEL,
Commissioner of Customs.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

Customs Department,
(Marine Branch)
Wellington, 16th May, 1870.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Hydrographical Department of the Admiralty,
is published for general information.
JULIUS VOGEL.

No. 10 of 1870.
Icebergs in South Atlantic Ocean.

LARGE numbers of icebergs and detached masses
of ice having been fallen in with in the months of
September and November, 1869, by vessels homeward
bound round Cape Horn, extending in the 42nd
meridian of West longitude as far North as the
parallel of 42° South latitude, it is recommended
that vessels taking this route should sight, or pass a
moderate distance eastward of, the Falkland Islands,
and should not steer eastward of a N.E. by N.
course (true) until northward of the parallel of 40°.
By a reference to the Admiralty Ice Chart of the
Southern Hemisphere (No. 1241), it will be seen
that icebergs and drift ice have been met with in the
months of March and April, between the meridians
of 20° and 25° West, as far North as 40°; and as it
appears that exceptionally large quantities of ice are
now adrift in the South Atlantic, vessels bound
eastward round the Cape of Good Hope are cautioned
accordingly.

By command of their Lordships.
GEO. HENRY RICHARDS,
Hydrographer.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,
22nd January, 1870.

No. 9 of 1870.
Dangers in the Bay of Plenty and East Cape Passage.

Customs Department,
(Marine Branch,)
Wellington, 9th May, 1870.

THE following Notices to Mariners respecting
dangers in Bay of Plenty and East Cape Passage,
furnished by Lieut. G. A. Woods, of the Colonial
Surveying Schooner "Edith," are published for
general information.
W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of the Commissioner
of Customs).

BAY OF PLENTY.

(1.) A dangerous rocky patch, extending N.W.
and S.E. about two hundred (200) feet, with about
five (5) feet at low water spring tides, has been
discovered off Motiti Island, in the fair-way of vessels
bound from the Eastward to Tauranga, when passing
between Astrolabe Reef and Motiti.
The following are the bearings and distances :-
Mongonui Hill N. 60° 15′ E.-distant 9 miles.
Northern point of Motiti N. 78° 30′ W.-
distant 2 miles.

(2.) A dangerous sunken patch, bearing from the
Schooner Rock about N. by E.E.-distant about
\u0034 of a mile-has been seen breaking.
Mariners are therefore cautioned against passing
within a mile of this Rock on that line of bearing.

EAST CAPE.

The following dangers have been discovered in or
near the passage between East Cape and East Island
(Whanga Okena) :-
(1.) A sunken rock, with only sixteen (16) feet of
water, bearing from the northern extreme of East.
Island W. by N.N.-distant five-sixths of a mile.
The extreme of Matakawa Point in conjunction
with the extreme of Horoera Point leads on this
rock.
(2.) A shoal patch, with twenty (20) feet of water,
bearing from the northern extreme of East Island
N.W. W.-distant two (2) miles.
The extreme of Horoera Point in conjunction with
Iron Point leads on to this danger.
The bearings are magnetic.

The above notice is reprinted on account of some misprints
having occurred in the original, which appeared in Gazette
No. 25, p. 219.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 21st May, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The CLERK to the GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES
COMMISSIONER
to frank free from prepayment of postage, Letters
and Packets sent through the post on Public Service.
W. GISBORNE
(for the Postmaster-General).