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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointments in Public Works Department.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to make the following
appointments in the Public Works Department.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

FRANCIS HENRY EDGECUMBE, Clerk and Drafts-
man, from 6th June, 1874.
JOHN HOWARD JACKSON, Surveyor, from 1st July,
1874.
AUGUSTUS VAN ZANDT MACDONALD, Surveyor,
from 1st July, 1874.
EDWARD HOLROYD BEERE, Surveyor, from 1st
July, 1874.
CHARLES WILSON HURSTHOUSE, Surveyor, from
1st July, 1874.
ANDREW JAMES REDGRAVE, Assistant Engineer,
from 1st July, 1874.
LAWRENCE CUSSEN, Assistant Engineer, from 1st
July, 1874.
EDGAR JONES, Assistant Engineer, from 27th
August, 1874.
ALFRED BOWDEN MARTIN, Cadet, from 31st
August, 1874.
GEORGE COTTON MCGLASHAN, Cadet, from 1st
September, 1874.
FREDERICK HILLER, Clerk and Draftsman, from
16th December, 1874.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

No. 28 of 1874.
Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 17th December, 1874.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Portmaster, Brisbane, are published for
general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(for the Commissioner of Customs).

BEACONS—INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAITS.

BEACONS are now erected upon the following reefs
and Islands in the Inner Route:—Vessels bound
southwards are to pass those which are red and
triangular, on the starboard hand; and those that
are black and square, on the port hand.

A detached reef, about a quarter of a mile long
and sixty yards wide, lies a quarter of a mile north-
east of the r. reef marked on the chart as lying off
the Cole Islands, and upon which the beacon is placed.

Upon the eastern end of the d. reef, to the west-
ward of the Flinders Group, is a second smaller
beacon to the northward of the beacon now erected,
which will assist in distinguishing the reef.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 2nd November, 1874.

"HARRINGTON SHOAL," INNER ROUTE.

THE following is the position of the south end of
"Harrington Shoal," as fixed by Captain Nares, of
H.M.S. "Challenger:"—

Right summit of Turtle Island ... South.
Left summit of Albany Rock ... N.W.
Summit, Albany Island ... N.W. by W.

The shoal patch is of small extent, and the least
water upon it is two fathoms.

The western extremity of Adolphus Island, kept
just open of Albany Rock, gives a mid-channel course
past this danger.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 12th November, 1874.

"THREE ROCKS," CUMBERLAND GROUP.

CAPTAIN MCCLEMENS, of the schooner "Heath,"
reports the existence of a shoal extending a con-
siderable distance to the north-westward from "Three
Rocks;" and also that the reef off k 2 Island extends
further to the north-west that is shown on the chart.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 18th November, 1874.

Appointments in the Office of the Commissioner of
Stamps.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties,
Wellington, 17th December, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ALFRED ST. GEORGE HICKSON, Esq.,
to be Chief Clerk and Accountant in the Office
of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties, vice H. E.
Brandon, Esq.; and

CHARLES LEWIS WIGGENS, Esq.,
to be Clerk to the Deputy Commissioner of Stamp
Duties, Wellington, vice C. A. St. G. Hickson,
transferred.

These appointments to take effect from the 16th
November, 1874.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Inquiry for a Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1874.

INQUIRIES have been made respecting

CARL HEINRICH ADOLPH SCHNOECKEL,
who came to Taranaki, New Zealand, in February,
1864, where he served under Colonel Warre, in No.
5 Company, Taranaki Military Settlers, New Ply-
mouth. The last letter received by his friends was
dated 5th July, 1865, in which he stated he had been
removed to No. 10 Company, and gave his address
as Wanganui District, Wellington.

Schnoeckel is stated to have been in a bar at
Raply's Prince of Wales Hotel, Wanganui, after
leaving the Military Settlers, and that he married
there, and afterwards kept a Boarding House until