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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of
The Nelson College Rifle Volunteer Cadets. Date
of acceptance, 1st April, 1875.
DANIEL POLLEN,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).

Services of Volunteer Officer and Corps
discontinued.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
discontinue the services of
Honorary Lieutenant W. HARKNESS,
and
The Richmond half Company of the Stoke Rifle
Volunteer Cadets.
DANIEL POLLEN,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).

NOTICES TO MARINERS.
No. 8 of 1875.
Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 7th April, 1875.

THE following Notices to Mariners are published
for general information.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

ALTERATIONS AT THE ENTRANCE TO PORT MACQUARIE.
Office of
Marine Board of New South Wales,
18th March, 1875.

MASTERS of vessels trading to Port Macquarie are
hereby informed that the late floods have materially
altered the channel. The course in at the present
time is to keep close to the sunken rock, with the
crosses on the western shore, a little open to the
northward of the round-headed beacon abreast of
the Asylum. The leading marks for the old channel
have been removed.
FRANCIS HIΧΟΝ,
President.

GLENELG JETTY LIGHT, ST. VINCENT'S GULF.
Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 10th March, 1875.

IT is hereby notified, that the red light on Glenelg
Jetty has been removed seventy-five (75) feet north
of its former position, and is now exhibited from a
tower having the focal plane of the light at an eleva-
tion of forty (40) feet from ordinary high water level.
Being on the catadioptric principle, it is consider-
ably improved in power, and should be seen from
seaward from the deck of a ship at a distance of eight
(8) miles in clear weather.
R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

REEF OFF LIBAN, OR BABI, FLORES SEA.
CAPTAIN PARK, of the Mail Steamer "Normanby,"
reports having struck upon a reef extending some
three-quarters of a mile from the southern-end of
Liban, or Babi. The position of the vessel when
aground was as follows:-
Detached rock off south end of island N. 55° E.
Western point of island just open of
S.W. point ... N. 7° W.
This reef, which is not laid down on the chart, was
steep to, having a depth of 20 fathoms within half a
cable. It was covered at low water, and appeared
to extend also for some distance from the western
side of the island.

A break was also observed on what appeared to
be a sunken rock, lying about three miles to the
eastward of the southern point of the island.
G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 8th March, 1875.

BURNETT RIVER.

MASTERS of vessels intending to enter the Burnett
River, are cautioned that the old channel across the
Bar has been blocked up by the recent floods. Buoys
are being laid down to point out the position of the
new channel, the depth of the water in which will be
shown from the flagstaff by the usual signals.
G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 10th March, 1875.

Manager of Naval Training School appointed.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 9th April, 1875.

IT is hereby notified, that
GOLDWIN ROBERTS BRETON, Esq.,
has been appointed Manager of the Naval Training
School established at Kohimarama, in the Province
of Auckland.
This appointment will date from the 15th October
last.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Inquiries for Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1875.

INQUIRIES having been made respecting a person
named
JOSEPH HARRIS,
who is stated to have been employed by or connected
with one Jacob Wales, of Auckland, in the year
1865, any one who can give any information
respecting him is requested to communicate with
this office.
G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

Inquiries for Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1875.

INQUIRIES having been made respecting a person
named
HENRY WAY,
by trade a Painter, who with his wife and family
arrived in New Zealand in 1874 by ship "Wen-
nington," from London, and who is supposed to have
gone to settle at or near Wanganui, in the Wellington
Province, any one who can give any information
respecting him is requested to communicate with
this office.
I
G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

Designation of Post Office changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1875.

IT is hereby notified for general information, that
the designation of the Post Office in the Province
of Otago, known as Edwards, has been changed to
VICTORIA BRIDGE.
By order of the Postmaster-General.
W. GRAY, Secretary.