THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 547

Captain A. K. Willis, Victoria Cavalry Volunteers.
Lieutenant J. T. Healey, Timaru Artillery Volun-
teers.
Honorary Sub-Lieutenant T. W. Begg, Napier
Rifle Volunteer Cadets.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Services of Volunteer Corps dispensed with.
Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
dispense with the services of
The Alexandra Rifle Volunteers.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Tenders.
Public Works Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1873.
THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
Tenderers is published for general information.
EDWARD RICHARDSON.

RECLAMATION OF LAND AT MUSSEL BAY.
Accepted.

• James Stumbles and Co., Dunedin ... £ 2,800 0 0

Declined.

• D. Proudfoot, Dunedin ... 4,200 4 0
• Chick and Whittock, Port Chalmers ... 4,358 5 0
• J. M. Campbell, Dunedin ... 4,533 6 6
• John Fearon, " ... 4,666 13 4
• — Crawshaw, " ... 4,666 13 4
• Matthewson Brothers, Dunedin ... 4,875 9 0
• Calden and Bell, " ... 5,087 13 4
• John Whitaker, " ... 5,134 3 4
• J. G. Proctor, " ... 5,156 5 0
• J. McDonald, " ... 5,325 0 0
• — Abbott, " ... 5,600 0 0

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 14 of 1873.
Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 18th September, 1873.
THE following Notices to Mariners, relative to the
navigation of Port Phillip, have been received
from the Government of Victoria, and are hereby
published for general information.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
Commissioner of Customs.

LIGHTSHIPS, PORT PHILLIP AND CORIO BAY.
MASTERS of vessels, pilots, and others are hereby
informed that during the repairs to the Lightship,
West Channel, the lights will be shown from the
Geelong lightship, which has been temporarily moored
in the west channel, but owing to the height of the
masts not being so great, the lights will not be visible
so far, and the lower light will be shown from abaft
instead of forward.

During the temporary removal of the Geelong
Ship Channel Lightship the light will be exhibited
from the spare lightship "Empire."

On or about the 19th proximo the revolving light
on board the Gellibrand's Point Lightship will be
replaced by a fixed bright light during the temporary
removal of the lightship for repairs.
CHARLES B. PAYNE,
Chief Harbour Master.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 28th August, 1873.

SOUTH CHANNEL.
PILOTS, Masters, and others navigating the South
Channel of Port Phillip, are hereby informed that
the erection of the pile lighthouse at No. 10 buoy
will necessitate the removal of that buoy from the
1st of September next.

JETTY LIGHT, DROMANA.
On and after the 1st of September a green light
will be shown from the end of the jetty at Dromana,
visible four miles in clear weather.
CHARLES B. PAYNE,
Chief Harbour Master.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 21st August, 1873.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 15 of 1873.
Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 18th September, 1873.
THE following Notice to Mariners, relative to
lights at Greymouth, has been received from
the Chief Harbour Master of Westland, and is
hereby published for general information.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
Commissioners of Customs.

MIDDLE ISLAND (WEST COAST).
These lights are NOT to be used for crossing the
OUTER Bar.

AFTER the 4th September, 1873, two lights, coloured
red, will be shown for the guidance of vessels over
the inner bar, from two skeleton beacons, erected in
the western portion of the Town of Greymouth.
The south-eastern or high light is twenty feet, and
the north-western or lower light fifteen feet above
high water during ordinary spring tides. The lights
in one lead through the deepest water, over the
shallow at the lower part of the Cross Channel,
after passing the flagstaff inwards.

Mariners are cautioned that those lights are in no
way to interfere with the lights at the flagstaff, and
are only to be used for the navigation of that portion
of the river extending from the flagstaff to the foot
of Arney Street.
THOMAS TURNBULL,
Chief Harbour Master, County of Westland.
Harbour Department, Hokitika,
4th September, 1873.

Member of General Assembly elected.
Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1873.
THE Clerk of the Writs has received a Return to
the Writ issued by him on the 26th day of
July, 1873, for the Election of a Member to serve in
the House of Representatives of New Zealand for
the Electoral District hereinafter specified; and by
the indorsement on such Writ it appears that the
under-mentioned gentleman has been duly elected
Member for such District, viz. :-

For the District of Wakatipu.
VINCENT PYKE.
G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Friendly Society registered.
IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867:" Notice is hereby given, that a transcript
of the Rules of