THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 587

Mayors elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1876.

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with clause
3 of "The Otago Municipal Corporations Em-
powering Act, 1865," the names of the following
persons have been sent in to this office by the Town
Clerks as having been elected Mayors for the places
set opposite their names, viz.,-

CHARLES STEPHEN REEVES—Dunedin.
GEORGE MITCHELL—Maori Hill.
JOHN ROBERT MILLS—Riverton.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Mayors re-elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1876.

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with clause
3 of "The Otago Municipal Corporations Em-
powering Act, 1865," the names of the following
persons have been sent in to this office by the Town
Clerks as having been re-elected Mayors for the places
set opposite their names, viz.,-

JOHN SMITH—West Hawkesbury.
JAMES SAMSON—Alexandra.
DAVID ANDERSON JOLLY—Cromwell.
JOHN PUGH JONES—St. Kilda.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Clerk of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM GREEN LUNN

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Leeston, and Clerk of the Licensing Court for the
District of Ellesmere.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Member of Licensing Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CHARLES CHRISTOPHER CULLEN, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Licensing Court for the
District of Lyell, vice C. Burgett, Esq., resigned.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th August, 1876.

IT is hereby notified that his Honor Thomas Banna-
tyne Gillies, Esq., a Judge of the Supreme Court
of New Zealand, has appointed

THOMAS MICHAEL SLATTERY, Esq.,

of Sydney, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of
New South Wales, to be a Commissioner in the
Colony of New South Wales of the Supreme Court
of New Zealand, under the second section of "The
Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875."

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Provincial Auditor, Marlborough, appointed.

Treasury,
Wellington, 15th August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM DOUSLIN, Esq.,

to be Auditor of the Public Accounts of the Province
of Marlborough, as from the 12th instant, vice Thomas
Mostyn Humffreys, Esq., deceased.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Receiver of Land Revenue, Hawke's Bay, resigned.

Treasury,
Wellington, 15th August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

WILLIAM PARKER, Esq.,

of his office of Receiver of Land Revenue for the
Province of Hawke's Bay, as from the 24th July
ultimo.

JULIUS VOGEL.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 20 of 1876.

EXHIBITION OF REVOLVING WHITE LIGHT ON CAPE
FOULWIND, WEST COAST OF MIDDLE ISLAND.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 9th August, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given, that on and after the
first day of September next a light will be
exhibited from a Lighthouse which has been erected
on Cape Foulwind, the position and characteristics
of which are as follow:-

The Cape Foulwind Lighthouse is situated on the
Cape of that name on the West Coast of the Middle
Island of New Zealand. The tower is 53 feet in
height from the base to the top of the lantern, and is
constructed of timber and painted white; the upper
part being close boarded, and the lower part of open
framed work.

The light will be a Second Order REVOLVING WHITE
LIGHT visible all round the horizon as far as the land
will allow. It will attain its greatest brilliance every
thirty seconds. The light is elevated 190 feet above
the sea, and, allowing 15 feet for the height of the
eye, will be seen at a distance of 19 nautic miles in
clear weather, and at lesser distances according to
the state of the atmosphere.

GEO. MCLEAN.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 21 of 1876.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 15th August, 1876.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Harbour Authorities of South Australia and
Queensland, are published for general information.

GEO. MCLEAN.

SOUTH-EAST COAST, PORT MACDONNELL.

NOTICE is hereby given, that, in consequence of
several vessels having been wrecked between Cape
Northumberland Lighthouse and the south end of
Rivoli Bay, the following marks should be carefully
attended to:-

In the Australian Directory, 1868, published by
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the direc-
tions are that vessels approaching Cape Northumber-