THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th July, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments :-

In the Greymouth Rangers Rifle Volunteers.
William Horton Revell to be Captain. Date of
commission, 4th February, 1875.
John Hugh Arbuthnot Lyell to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 4th February, 1875.

In the Dunedin High School Artillery Volunteer
Cadets.
Joseph Wladislas Edmond de Montalk to be Captain.
Date of commission, 28th April, 1875.

In the Canterbury High School Cadets.
Alfred Dawson to be Captain. Date of commission,
5th February, 1875.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Resignation of Volunteer Officer accepted.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th July, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by
Major John Bathgate, No. 1 Battalion, Otago
Rifle Volunteers.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th July, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of
The Dunedin High School Artillery Volunteer
Cadets. Date of acceptance, 28th April, 1875.
DONALD MCLEAN.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 13 of 1875.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 7th July, 1875.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Harbour Master
at Wellington reports that it is the intention
of the Provincial Government to establish, on and
after the 15th instant, a Harbour Light to the entrance
to the Manawatu River. This light will be shown
from a lantern at the flagstaff, and will be 45 feet
above the level of the sea. It will be a white light,
and be visible in clear weather all round seaward at
a distance of about eleven miles, allowing 10 feet for
the height of the observer's eye.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 14 of 1875.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 7th July, 1875.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Portmaster at Brisbane, is published for
general information.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

SOUTH ENTRANCE, MORETON BAY.
In consequence of changes which have taken place

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in the south entrance to Moreton Bay, the following
alterations are made in the sailing directions for
entering by that channel :-

To carry the deepest water over the bar, near the
crossing now in use, keep the westernmost rocky
knoll just open to the eastward of the centre hum-
mock of the triple hill at the back. When over the
outer bar, haul up, and gradually bring the rocky
knoll in a line with the centre hummock, passing the
western spit of the detached break at a short cable's
distance, and keeping those marks on until the bea-
cons at the south end of Moreton Island are well open
of the north-east end of the south break.

The beacons in line lead in, over the Bar, to the
northward of the detached break, in 14 feet 6 inches
low-water springs-past the south break and up the
main channel as formerly.

There is also a channel over the bar on the
south side of, and at a short cable's distance from, the
detached break, with about 13 feet 6 inches at low
water.

As it cannot be expected that so many channels
will long remain open to their present depth, due
precaution must be observed in taking the bar.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 8th June, 1875.

Proclamation by Superintendent, Otago, delegating
Powers under "The Marine Act, 1867," to Oamaru
Harbour Board.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 30th June, 1875.

THE following Proclamation by His Honor the
Superintendent of Otago is published for general
information.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

PROCLAMATION.

Delegation of Powers by His Honor James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand, intituled "The Harbour Boards Act, 1870," it
is, among other things, enacted that the Superintendent
and Provincial Council of any province may from time
to time make laws for providing for the constitution
of a Harbour Board for any port or ports within such
province, for giving a name to any such Board, for
providing for the number of members of which any
such Board shall consist, for providing for the election
or appointment of members, or for the election of a
certain number and appointment of a certain number
of such members, and for other purposes in the third
section of the said Act mentioned: And whereas by
an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago, passed in the
thirty-third session of the said Council, No. 423,
intituled "The Oamaru Harbour Ordinance, 1874,"
a Harbour Board was constituted for the Port of
Oamaru, in the Province of Otago, and was named
"The Oamaru Harbour Board:" And whereas by
the said Act of the General Assembly of New Zea-
land, intituled "The Harbour Boards Act, 1870," it
is provided that the Superintendent of the province
within which any port for which a Harbour Board
might be constituted thereunder is situate may from
time to time, by Proclamation published in the New
Zealand Gazette, delegate to such Harbour Board all
or any of the powers and authorities vested in him by
"The Marine Act, 1867," subject to any regulations,
restrictions, or stipulations which might be specified
in such Proclamation, provided that such delegation