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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
nearer will a vessel approach the danger before she
shuts out the light.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 28th March, 1876.

LIGHT-SHIP AT PIPER ISLANDS, INNER ROUTE TO
TORRES STRAITS.
ON and after this date a Light will be exhibited from
a Light-ship moored in 13 fathoms, in the following
position, viz.,-
North Piper Island ... W. by S. S.
k. Islet ... N. E.
The Light, which is dioptric, is at an elevation of
35 feet above the water, and will be visible from a
distance of from 10 to 12 miles.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 27th March, 1876.

Money Order Offices.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1876.
THE following Notice, received from the General
Post Office, London, is published for general
information.
By order.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

MONEY ORDER OFFICES.
On the 1st of March, the following alterations
will take place:-
ENGLAND.

1. Money Order Offices will be opened at-
   Head Office. County.
   Belgrave Leicester ... Leicester.
   Church Brough- Derby ... Derby.
   ton
   Church Gresley Burton-on-Trent Derby.
   Gamlingay Sandy ... Cambridge.
   Great Glenn Leicester ... Leicester.
   Peel Causeway Altrincham ... Chester.
   R.O.
   Pensilva Liskeard ... Cornwall.
   Piddletrenthide Dorchester ... Dorset.
   Pitland Street... Dorking ... Surrey.
   Silverton Cullompton Devon.
   Swainby Northallerton... York.
   Trimdon Colliery Trimdon Grange Durham.
   R.S.O.
   Whimple Exeter ... Devon.
2. The Money Order Office at Street (Bridgewater)
   will henceforth be called Street (Somerset), Bridge-
   water, to distinguish it from the Sub-Office at Street
   (Dartmouth), which will be known henceforth as
   Street (Devon), Dartmouth.
3. The Money Order Office at Sandside is subordi-
   nate to Carnforth, not Ulverston, as stated in List of
   Money Order Offices in Circular of 31st ultimo.
   SCOTLAND.
4. Money Order Offices will be opened at-
   Head Office. County.
   Longside Aberdeen ... Aberdeen.
   Strome Ferry R.S.O. ... Ross.
   IRELAND.
5. The Money Order Office sanctioned at Went-
   worth Place (Dublin) has not been opened, one
   having been established in lieu of it at Lower Mount
   Street.
   General Post Office, London,
   28th February, 1876.

INLAND MAIL SERVICES.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 1876.
SEALED Tenders will be received at the General
Post Office, Wellington, until Saturday, 20th
May proximo, for the conveyance of Mails twice a
week each way between Napier and Tauranga, by
Four-horse Coach, for a period of one or for two
years, commencing from the 1st July next.
The Postmaster-General to have the power to ter-
minate the Service on giving one month's notice in
writing to that effect.
Forms of tender, together with terms and conditions
of contract, may be procured at any Post Office. No
tender will be considered unless made on the printed
form.
Tenders to be indorsed "Tender for Napier and
Tauranga Mail Service," and addressed to the Hon.
the Postmaster-General, Wellington.
The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be
accepted.
By order.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Spirits distilled in New Zealand.
Customs Department (Distilleries Branch),
Wellington, 31st March, 1876.
ANNUAL RETURN of Spirits distilled in New
Zealand, published as required by section 93 of
"The Distillation Act, 1868 :"-
Number of Imperial gallons of Spirits
distilled in New Zealand received into
all Bonded Warehouses during the
year ended 31st December, 1875 45,894-6
Number of Imperial gallons of such
Spirits cleared and taken out of
Bonded Warehouses during the same
period-
For home consumption 80,119-2
For exportation Nil. 80,119-2
Number of Imperial gallons of such
Spirits remaining in all Bonded Ware-
houses on the 31st December, 1875 67,127-0
H. S. MCKELLAR,
(for the Chief Inspector of Distilleries).

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1876.-NOTICE No. 8.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1876.
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 names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information:-
Lutheran Church.
The Reverend HERMANN WILHELM KOWERT.
" HEINRICH FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH
LOOZE.
Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend H. M. FINLAYSON.
Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend JOHN SHEEHAN.
Primitive Methodist Society.
The Reverend CHARLES EBENEZER WARD.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.