THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 257

NOTICE.---The attention of all Officers holding
Advances of Public Money is called to section
39 of "The Public Revenues Act, 1867," and to
clause 28 of the Treasury Regulations, requiring that
all unexpended balances of such moneys shall be
refunded to the Paymaster from whom they were
obtained, on the day before the last day of the
quarter.

Compliance with this regulation will be strictly
insisted on, in order that all Advance Accounts may
be closed on the 30th instant.

Treasury,
Wellington, 4th June, 1870.

C. T. BATKIN,
Paymaster-General.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

Customs Department,
(Marine Branch,)
Wellington, 1st June, 1870.

THE following Notices to Mariners are published
for general information.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Commissioner of Customs.

No. 11 of 1870.
Light on Farewell Spit (Western Entrance to Cook's
Strait).

NOTICE is hereby given, that on and after the 17th
June, 1870, a Light will be exhibited from a Light-
house erected on Bush-End Point, Farewell Spit, in
Lat. 40° 33′ S., and Long. 173° 1′ 45″ E., as measured
from the Admiralty Chart. The light will show all
round, except on the outer side of the Spit, where,
off deck, it will not be seen when the light is brought
to bear eastward of E.S., as it is shut in by sand
hills.

It is a Revolving White Light, of the Second
Order Dioptric, attaining its greatest brilliancy once
a minute.

Over the Spit End, (that is, between the bearings
of N.W. N. to W. by N.IN.,) the light will be
Red, in order to caution Mariners of their approach
to that danger.

The light is elevated about 120 feet above the sea
level, and will be visible in clear weather about 17
nautic miles, allowing 15 feet for the height of the
observer's eye.

The Tower is an open-framed structure of timber,
painted in alternate bands of red and white, and is
113 feet in height from the ground to the top of the
lantem.

Vessels must take care not to open the Northern
edge of the red light when within four miles of the
lighthouse.

All bearings are magnetic.

No. 12 of 1870.
Use of International Code of Signals at Signal Stations,
Cape Colony.

Government Notice—No. 94, 1870.

Colonial Office, Cape of Good Hope,
17th March, 1870.

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified,
that from and after the 1st September next no Signals
will be made or answered from any of the Signal
Stations in this Colony, except by means of the
International Code of Signals.

By command of His Excellency the Governor.

R. SOUTHEY,
Colonial Secretary.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1870.

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 names of Officiating Ministers,
within the meaning of the said Act, are published for
general information:---

United Church of England and Ireland,
The Reverend CHARLES MOSELEY NELSON.

Wesleyan Methodist Society,
The Reverend HENRY FLAMANK.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAMES of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 29th of January; No 7, of
the 5th of February; No. 13, of the 12th of March;
No. 21, of the 20th of April; No. 23, of the 4th
of May; No. 24, of the 12th of May; and No. 26,
of the 26th of May, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
sixth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

New Plymouth Exchanges Commissioners' Office,
New Plymouth, New Zealand, 20th May, 1870.

NOTICE.---Whereas His Excellency the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power
and authority vested in him by "The New Plymouth
Exchanges Commission Amendment Act Amend-
ment Act, 1867," did appoint Josiah Flight and
John Stephenson Smith, both of New Plymouth
aforesaid, Esquires, to inquire into and investigate
and examine all or any exchanges made or pur-
porting to be made under the provisions of "The
Town of New Plymouth Compensation Ordinance,
1859," or "The Town of New Plymouth Consolida-
tion Ordinance, 1859," and whether made between
and by the Superintendent of the Province of
Taranaki and other persons, being owners of land as
in the said Ordinances or either of them mentioned,
or by the said Superintendent and the Commissioner
of Crown Lands where neither such other persons
or any person authorized to act on their behalf
could be found, or whether made or purporting to be
made provisionally, either with the consent of such
other persons or without their consent, and whether
made or purporting to be made before or after the
expiration of the last mentioned of the said Ordi-
nances; and in all cases as aforesaid in which it
should appear to the said Commissioners that it
would be for the mutual benefit of the parties con-
cerned that such exchanges or any of them should
be confirmed in whole or in part, to confirm the
same accordingly; to inquire into, investigate, and
examine all dealings with, and contracts for and in
relation to conveyances of lands, the subject of any
exchange or exchanges in the said first-recited Act
mentioned, since the eighteenth day of August, 1859,
and to ascertain and determine the persons who by
virtue of such dealings, contracts, and conveyances
have been the subjects of such exchanges, and that
the legal or equitable owners of the lands which
whether such dealings, contracts, and conveyances
have been in form dealings with, or contracts for, or
conveyances of lands purchased from the Plymouth
Company of New Zealand, or the New Zealand
Company, or the Crown, or have been in form