THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1435

Clerk, Land Transfer Department, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN BELL, Esq.,
to be Chief Clerk in the Land Transfer Department
at Invercargill, from the 9th instant, vice A. H.
Giller, Esq., transferred.
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Clerk, Resident Magistrate's Court, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Constable JAMES DORIS
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Tolago Bay.
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Interpreter under "Native Land Act, 1873,"
appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
LOUISA E. TAKIORA DALTON,
of Normanby, Patea, to be an Interpreter under the
twelfth section of "The Native Land Act, 1873."
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Post Office and Telegraph Holiday.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1878.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
Saturday, 9th November, the anniversary of the
Prince of Wales' Birthday, will be observed as a
general holiday at all Post Offices and Telegraph
Stations throughout the colony.
At Telegraph Stations Sunday hours will be ob-
served.
J. T. FISHER,
Postmaster-General and Commissioner
of Telegraphs.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 26, of 1878.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th October, 1878.

THE following hydrographic memorandum, re-
ceived from the Commodore Commanding the
Australian Station, is published for general informa-
tion.
G. GREY.

TORRES STRAITS, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PORT RESOLU-
TION, TANNA.

"Wolverene," at Sydney,
24th September, 1878.

Hydrographic Memorandum No. 34.

THE following hydrographic information relative to
parts of the Australian Station is promulgated for
general information and guidance.
A. H. HOSKINS,
Commodore.

To the respective Captains and Officers
Commanding Her Majesty's Ships on
the Australian Station.

INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM MR. WM. POWELL.

There is a dangerous reef lying in China Straits, not
marked by Captain Moresby, Paplis Island bearing
S.S.W. 1 miles, Didymus Island (centre) S.E. S.
2 miles, covered at low water, and seldom breaks.

INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF OF THE CHINA STATION.

Mr. G. H. Harrington, master of the British
barque "Pacific Slope," reports that, after passing
through Bouganville Straits, on the 2nd March,
1878, he experienced a S.S.E. set of 110 miles in one
night, which, as a very uneasy motion had been felt
on board, and in the morning the ship was found to
be surrounded and embedded in enormous quantities
of pumice of various sizes, he attributed to the effect
of submarine volcanic disturbance.

INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE COMMANDING
OFFICER OF H.M.S. "SAPPHO."

The "Sappho" searched between the 26th of June
and 2nd of July, 1878, for the Lucius and Aurora
Shoals in Torres Straits, and did not find any trace
of them to exist in the positions assigned to them on
the chart.

INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM BRITISH CONSUL AT
NOUMEA, DATED 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1878.

In August, 1878, about a fortnight after H.M.'s
schooner "Renard" had completed a re-survey of
the harbour, rendered necessary by the volcanic up-
heaval which took place in the Island of Tanna in
January, February, and June, 1878, another earth-
quake and extensive upheaval took place, and Port
Resolution is reported to be almost entirely destroyed.

"The Otago Dock Trust Ordinance, 1865."

Treasury,
Wellington, 14th August, 1878.

IT is hereby notified that the principal moneys
secured by the debentures issued under the
Ordinance above cited, and falling due on the 1st
November next, will be paid on presentation of the
bonds on or after that date at the Bank of New
Zealand, London, or at the Bank of New Zealand,
Dunedin, whichsoever was the place at which the
last payment of interest on the respective bonds was
paid, viz. :-

At the Bank of New Zealand, London, Bonds
Nos. 418-427, 433-452, 471-490.
At the Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, Bonds
Nos. 301-302, 364-417, 428-432, 453-470,
491-494, 496-500.

J. BALLANCE,
Colonial Treasurer.

Change of Purpose of Reserve in the Provincial
District of Canterbury.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1878.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Go-
vernor intends, under the provisions of the one
hundred and forty-eighth section of "The Land Act,
1877," to change the specific purpose of the land
described in the second column of the Schedule
hereto, for which the land was heretofore set apart
as a reserve, as specified in the first column of the
said Schedule, to the specific purpose specified in
the third column of the said Schedule.