THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

555

REPORTED DANGERS, INNER ROUTE TO TORRES
STRAITS.

MR. A. SYKES, Master of the schooner "Hannah
Broomfield," reports striking on a mushroom coral
patch, with about four feet water over it at low
water, and fifteen fathoms close alongside, in the
following position, viz. :

Cape Melville, bearing W. by N.N.
Barrow Point, " S. by E.
Rocky Point, " S.W. by W.W.

Also, the existence of a coral patch north of Night
Island, with about four feet of water over it at low
water, with

Round Rock bearing N.W. by N.N.
Highest part of u. Reef, North.

He describes Edwards Rock, lying to the south-
wards of Restoration Island, as being 100 yards wide,
and extending nearly half a mile east and west, and
also as being awash at low water.

Also, a detached coral patch with five feet of water
over it at low water, lying from to mile from g.
Reef; the small westernmost rock of Forbes Islets
bearing N. by E.

G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 5th August, 1873.

Officiating Minister registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1873.

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 name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information :-

Hebrew Congregations.

The Reverend DAVID MORRIS ISAACS.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Name of an Officiating
Minister, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th January; No. 9, of the
13th February; No. 11, of the 27th February; No.
17, of the 20th March; No. 22, of the 10th April;
No. 25, of the 24th April; No. 26, of the 1st May;
No. 30, of the 15th May; No. 31, of the 22nd May;
No. 38, of the 12th June; No. 41, of the 26th
June; No. 42, of the 3rd July; No. 46, of the 17th
July; and No. 55, of the 18th September, in the
present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867:" Notice is hereby given, that a transcript
of the amended By-laws of
"The Loyal Naseby Lodge, No. 14 Branch, M.U.,
I.O.O.F."

duly certified, has been received by the Registrar of
Friendly Societies registered and recorded in his 590

office under the provisions of "The Friendly
Societies Act, 1867."

Dated the 2nd day of October, 1873.

G. S. COOPER
(for the Registrar).

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat in the meantime be lodged for-
bidding the same.

Section 1 (one), Block 43 (forty-three), Town of
Invercargill.-Applicant, JOHN REID, of Dunedin,
Merchant.

Sections 10 (ten) and 11 (eleven), Block I. (one),
Town of Invercargill.--Applicant, JOHN TURN-
BULL THOMSON, of Dunedin, Civil Engineer.

Sections 4 (four), 5 (five), 6 (six), 17 (seventeen),
and 18 (eighteen), Block LI. (fifty-one), Town of
Invercargill.-Applicant, DAVID MCKELLAR, of
Waikaia Plains, Province of Otago, Runholder.

Caveat in each case must be lodged within one
calendar month after the gazetting of this notice.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 22nd day of September, 1873, at the
Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.
591

W. RUSSELL,
District Land Registrar.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat in the meantime be lodged
forbidding the same.

JOHN HIGGINS, Napier, Applicant. - 36
perches, part of Town Section 273, Napier; com-
mencing at a point in Hastings Street 18 feet in a
Northerly direction from the south-west corner of
said section; thence North-easterly 165 feet; thence
North-westerly 60 feet; thence South-westerly and
South-easterly to the commencing point, and forming
a rectangular block. (C. L. Margoliouth, Broker.)

HENRY BOWMAN SEALY, Napier, Applicant.
-340 acres, Block 74, western side of harbour.
(E. Lyndon, Broker.)

Time for caveat in each of above cases one calendar
month from date of gazetting this notice.

WILLIAM JAMES MUDIE LARNACH (At-
torney for the Bank of Otago, Limited), Applicant.
-9 perches, part of Suburban Section 64, Town of
Napier; commencing at a point in Hastings Street
138 feet distant in a westerly direction from the
north-east corner of said section; thence Southerly,
Westerly, and Northerly, through said section to
Shakespeare Road, 48 feet, 60 feet 6 inches, and 40
feet respectively; and thence Easterly along said
Shakespeare Road to the commencing point, 60 feet.
(Smith and Anderson, Solicitors.)

Time for caveat, 29th November, 1873.

JOHN RENSHAW, No. 11, Cedars Row, Clap-
ham, Surrey, England, Gentleman, Applicant.--
23 perches, part of Town Section 515, Napier.
Bounded-on North, by Waghorne Street, 50 feet
and 76 feet; on East, by roadway over said section,
68 feet and 43 feet; on South, by roadway over
said section, 46 feet 6 inches and 74 feet; and on
West, by Custom House Street, 43 feet and 68 feet.
(E. Lyndon, Broker.)

Time for caveat, 16th December, 1873.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 17th day of September, 1873, at the
Lands Registry Office, Napier.

HANSON TURTON,
District Land Registrar.