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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
SCHEDULE No. 8—continued.
FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
portion of the Wanganui-Mana-
watu Railway which commences
at or near a point situated in the
Kakariki Native Reserve, in the
Manawatu District, and termi-
nates at or near a point situated
on the western side of Cliff Road,
in the Rangitikei District, as the
same lands hereby reserved or
intended so to be are delineated
upon the plans of the said rail-
way deposited orto be deposited
in the office of the Registrar of
the Supreme Court at Welling-
ton, and the line of which said
railway was, under the authority
of "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1870," and the
several Acts amending the same,
proclaimed in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 30th day of
December, 1875.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Revising Officer appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1876.
IT is hereby notified that His Honor the Chief
Justice has reported that he has appointed
HENRY SAMUEL FITZHERBERT, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Electoral Districts of
City of Wellington, the Hutt, Wellington Country,
Wairarapa, Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Wanganui.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).
Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
STRICKLAND S. FIELD MAY, Esq.,
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages for the District of Christchurch, as
the same is defined in Proclamation of the 8th day
of May, 1873, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 28, of the 9th day of May, 1873.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).
Mayor elected.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st February, 1876.
IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with clause
3 of "The Otago Municipal Corporations Em-
powering Act, 1865," the name of the following
person has been sent in to this office by the Town
Clerk as having been elected Mayor for the place
set opposite his name, viz.,-
JOHN PUGH JONES—St. Kilda.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).
SCHEDULE No. 8—continued.
SECOND
COLUMN.
Purpose for
which Reserve
is made.
under "The
Railways Acts,
1871, 1872, and
1874."
Date of Order
in Council
excepting Land
from Sale.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 4 of 1876.
PORT OF DUNEDIN.
Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 17th February, 1876.
THE following Notice to Mariners, respecting
Leading Lights to be established at the entrance
to the Port of Dunedin, together with sailing direc-
tions for that port, prepared by Captain Thomson,
Harbour Master, are published for general infor-
mation.
H. A. ATKINSON.
NOTICE is hereby given that on and after 1st April
next two leading lights will be exhibited from two
white towers erected on the Sandspit, the site of
the present leading beacons at entrance to the Port
of Dunedin.
The towers are 300 yards apart, and bear from
each other S.S.W. and N.N.E.
From the upper or inner tower a green light will
be shown 36 feet above sea level, and from the lower
or seaward one a white light 26 feet above sea level;
both fixed, with an illuminating arc of 75°, that may
be seen from seaward between S. 41° E. and
S. 34° W. at a distance of six to seven miles.
A small fixed red light will also be shown on the
red-and-white beacon at the Pilot Station (not visible
from seaward).
In foggy weather a gong will be sounded on Tairoa
Head every fifteen seconds.
All bearings are magnetic.
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR ENTERING THE PORT
OF DUNEDIN.
Being off the bar two miles in 16 fathoms water,
bring the leading lights in one, which will then bear
S.S.W. by compass; steer on this course until the
red light at the Pilot Station opens out; then haul
up for Harrington Point, passing halfway between
it and the Sandspit, continuing a mid-channel course
between the buoys on the inner bar, keeping the red
on the starboard side, and black on the port, passing
the lightship on the starboard hand about 200 feet off.
Having passed the lightship (which is moored in
12 feet at low water spring tides, and about 1½ cables'
length S.W. by S. from the first red beacon), the
channel upwards to the Dunedin wharves is well
defined with buoys and beacons coloured as afore-
mentioned.
The depth of water at present in the channel
across the outer bar is 18 feet at low water spring
tides, and across the inner bar 17 feet.
The outer anchorage is safe when there is no easting
in the wind. Small vessels anchoring in same should
keep as near the line of the leading lights as convenient,
in 9 fathoms about half a mile from the shore, and
large vessels about one and a-half miles off in 15
fathoms, Tairoa Head Lighthouse bearing by com-
pass about south. The inner anchorage is between
Howlett Point and the first buoy on the inner bar,
and is safe in any weather. Vessels anchoring below
Harrington Point, the nearer they are to the Sandspit
the better; and above same point they should get into
the bight a little, abreast of the old Native village.
On nearing the Port of Dunedin, and the wind
northerly, if necessary to wait for daylight or the
tide, when it is not safe for a pilot to board, stand off
and on, not bringing the lighthouse to bear to the
eastward of south, and thereby benefit by the northerly
current to keep to windward.