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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 36 of 1877.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 15th November, 1877.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Colonial Secretary, Cape Town, Cape of
Good Hope, and the Marine Board, Port Adelaide,
South Australia, are published for general informa-
tion.

G. GREY.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, SOUTH COAST.

IT is hereby notified that a Light Tower is being built,
about 200 to 300 yards within the pitch of a low
point (Seal Point), situated 14 miles westward of
Cape St. Francis, to be hereafter called "Cape St.
Francis Lighthouse."

The tower is a cylindrical stone structure, 91 feet
high, with keeper's quarters attached at base, and
is situated in latitude 34° 22′ 30″ South, and longi-
tude 24° 50′ 20″ East of Greenwich.

It is intended to display a second order Holo-
photal Revolving White Light, flashing at intervals
of twenty seconds, with focal plane 101 feet above
the base of the tower, and 118 feet above the level of
high water.

The light will be visible in clear weather about
16 sea miles from the deck of a vessel 15 feet above
the sea. It will command the coast uninterruptedly
to the westward, but will be cut off to the eastward
by Cape St. Francis on the line N. 53° E. true, or
would not be visible from the eastward on a bearing
more southerly than S. 53° W. true.

The nearest existing lights are Cape Recife, about
45 miles to the eastward, and Mossel Bay (Cape
St. Blaize), about 133 miles to the westward.

The tower will probably be ready for the reception
of the lenticular about January, 1878, and the light
may probably be exhibited some time between 1st
March and 30th April, 1878, of which due and precise
notice will be given.

JAMES FFORDE,
Chief Inspector of Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Cape Town, 17th July, 1877.

INVESTIGATOR STRAIT, PORT MOOROWIE.

NOTICE is hereby given that three Buoys have been
placed just east of Point Gilbert, to mark the en-
trance to this anchorage.

The middle chequered buoy, with staff and ball,
painted black and red, and cheese-shaped, is placed
on a rock patch, having little more than 4 feet 6 inches
of water over it at low-water springs. This patch
covers an area of about 350 feet, and lies nearly
in mid-channel. Vessels working into or out of the
anchorage should not approach the chequered buoy
nearer than half a cable's length.

A cheese-shaped red buoy, with staff and ball, is
placed on the end of a reef in about 7 feet of water
at low water, bearing E. by S. half S. from the above-
mentioned chequered buoy, there being a channel
between the red buoy and the chequered buoy of
9 feet at low water.

A cheese-shaped black buoy, with staff and ball,
has been placed in 8 feet at low water on the shoal
forming the western side of the anchorage. This
buoy lies nearly due west from the chequered buoy,
or in line with the extreme outer end of Point
Gilbert, leaving a channel between having 9 to 10 feet
through at low water.

Using either of the above channels, and steering
for the large store above the landing-place, will lead
into a pool (having a depth of not less than 3 to 3½
fathoms at low water) capable of holding ten or twelve
small vessels. Running in from seaward the sound-
ings gradually decrease until not more than 9 feet
exists in a line with the buoys, after passing which
it will soon deepen. A convenient position for
anchoring should then be taken up.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 16th October, 1877.

Authority to Frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th November, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

The ACCOUNTANT, CANTERBURY RAILWAYS,
to frank, free from prepayment of postage, letters
and parcels posted on the public service.

J. T. FISHER,
Postmaster-General.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1877.—NOTICE No. 21.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 19th November, 1877.

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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Reverend WILLIAM ATHENRY WHYTE, F.R.G.S.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend ALEXANDER CARRICK.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—His Honor the Chief Justice has, this
16th day of November, 1877, appointed

LEONARD PRENDERGAST,
of Melbourne, an Attorney of the Supreme Court of
Victoria, to be a Commissioner of the Supreme Court
of New Zealand, under the second section of "The
Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875."

A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 16th November, 1877.

Sheep Inspector's Notice.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1877.

NOTICE has been received from the Inspector of
Sheep for the Wellington District that he has
granted a clean certificate to Mr. Robert Bould, of
Johnsonville, for a flock of 420 mixed sheep, from
the 14th instant.

JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.