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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Member of Education Board appointed.

Department of Justice (Education Branch),
Wellington, 13th February, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint

ARTHUR JOHN BURNS, Esq., M.G.A.,
to be a Member of the Education Board of the Dis-
trict of Otago, vice the Hon. Donald Reid, M.G.A.,
resigned.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Receiver of Land Revenue for Hawke's Bay
appointed.

Treasury,
Wellington, 12th February, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

GEORGE EDWARD GORDON RICHARDSON, Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Provincial
District of Hawke's Bay, as from the 7th instant,
during the absence of J. T. Tylee, Esq.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

Mrs. MARY TAUTARI,
of Kawa Kawa, Bay of Islands, to be an Interpreter
under the 12th section of "The Native Land Act,
1873."

D. REID,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).

Resignation of Volunteer Officer..

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by

Lieutenant J. W. Marshall, Marton Royal Rifle
Volunteers.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Members of Foxton Harbour Board appointed.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 14th February, 1877.
IT is hereby notified, that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS UPPADINE COOK, Esq.,
FRANCIS LOUDON, Esq., and
FRANCIS ROBINSON, Sen., Esq., J.P.,
to be Members of the Foxton Harbour Board.

GEO. MCLEAN.

Member of Timaru Harbour Board elected.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 14th February, 1877.
IT is hereby notified, that the Geraldine Road Board
have elected

WILLIAM POSTLETHWAITE, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Member of the Timaru Harbour Board.

GEO. MCLEAN.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 5 of 1877.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 14th February, 1877.
THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Superintendent of Marine Surveys at Cal-
cutta, are published for general information.

GEO. MCLEAN.

Government of India. -Department of Revenue,
Agriculture and Commerce.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. -No. 19.

CEYLON-EAST COAST.
BEACON ON TWO-FATHOM PATCH OFF BATTI-
CALOA ROAD.
WITH reference to Notice to Mariners No. 17,
issued from this Department, information has been
received from the Ceylon Government that the
beacon recently erected on the two-fathom patch,
situated N.E. 14 mile from the signal staff at the
Port of Batticaloa, has been washed away.

By direction of the Government of India.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I.N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.

Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 1st December, 1876.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Chart:
Ceylon, East Coast, Singane River to Pedro Point,
with plans of Vendeloos Bay, Trincomalie, and
Batticaloa Road, No. 2031; also, Taylor's Sailing
Directory, vol. i., page 442.

If this Notice is received on board ship, the sub-
stance of it should be inserted on the chart affected
by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to
which it relates.

Government of India. -Department of Revenue,
Agriculture, and Commerce.
NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 20.

BAY OF BENGAL-COROMANDEL COAST.
FIXED LIGHT AT CALINGAPATAM POINT.
THE Madras Government has notified that, on and
after the 15th December, 1876, a Light will be ex-
hibited at Calingapatam Point, and is intended to
warn ships off a small reef which projects from the
Point, and which should not be passed in less than
8 fathoms, when making the port of Calingapatam at
night.

The Light will be a fixed white light, displayed from
the top of an obelisk of cut stone; the lantern, of
country manufacture, with three reflectors, is elevated
64 feet above high-water level, and when approached
from a south-east direction should be visible from a
distance of 8 miles.

Position of Lighthouse as given-Lat. 18° 19' Ν.,
long. 84° 7' 30" E.

A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I.N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.

Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 7th December, 1876.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty
Charts:-Bay of Bengal, No. 70a; and Indian
Ocean, No. 7486. Also, Admiralty List of Lights in
South Africa, East Indies, &c., 1876; the Indian
Marine Survey Light List, 1876, No. 71; and
Taylor's Sailing Directory, vol. i., page 467.

If this Notice is received on board ship, the sub-
stance of it should be inserted in the charts affected
by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to
which it relates.