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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 2 of 1878.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 15th January, 1878.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Portmaster, Brisbane, is published for
general information.

J. BALLANCE.

ALTERATION OF YELLOW PATCH LIGHT, MORETON
ISLAND.

ON after this date, the Fifth Order Light at the
Yellow Patch will be replaced by one of the Fourth
Order, intensified by vertical condensing prisms. It
will be visible as a white light from between the
bearings of S. W. and S.E. by E. E.; red, from
S.E. by E. E. to the Perch Buoy; and white thence
to E. N.

While the white light is kept in sight, a vessel will
be clear, on the one hand, of Hutchinson Shoal, and,
on the other, of the shoal water off the North Banks.

When the light changes from red to white on the
south-western edge of the red sector, she will be in
line with the Yellow Patch Light and the Perch
Buoy.

Directions.—Vessels from the northwards—in fine
weather and smooth water—entering Moreton Bay
by night, by the North Channel, should, after making
out the white light on Comboyuro Point, be careful
not to enter the red sector of the Yellow Patch
Light until the former light is obscured on a S. by
E. E. bearing.

On the Comboyuro Light being obscured, a vessel
should haul up gradually to the southward, enter the
red sector of the Yellow Patch Light, and again open
out the white light at Comboyuro Point, and steer
for it, keeping on the edge of the white light. When
the Yellow Patch Light is brought nearly into line
with Cape Moreton Light, she must be hauled
further to the westward, and the Cowan Cowan Light
opened out, which, if kept in sight, will lead in clear
of the Venus Bank.

On leaving the port at night by the North Channel,
a vessel after passing the line of leading lights for
the Middle Channel should keep on the eastern edge
of the white light at Comboyuro Point until the
white light at the Yellow Patch changes to red, when
she will be within a cable to the north-westward of
the Perch Buoy, and can then steer out to sea at
once.

These directions will take a vessel through the
North Channel with not less than 16 feet at low
water; while, by similarly keeping the eastern edge
of the white light on Cowan Cowan Point just open,
a vessel leaving the port will cross the banks in 19
feet. This light, however, being at a considerably
greater distance, is not so good a guide as that on
Comboyuro Point.

G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 20th December, 1877.

Authority to Frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

THE TRAVELLING INSPECTORS OF THE AUDIT
DEPARTMENT

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

J. T. FISHER,
Postmaster-General.

Alterations and Additions to the Rates for the Con-
veyance of Passengers, and Conveyance, Delivery,
and Storage of Goods, Parcels, &c., on all the New
Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Order in Council, dated
the 17th day of April, 1877, the following alterations
and additions to the rates for the conveyance of
passengers, and conveyance, delivery, and storage of
goods, parcels, &c., on all the New Zealand Railways,
are hereby declared to be fixed, and shall come into
force on and from the 11th day of January, 1878 :—

SCHOLARS.

Season Tickets at half ordinary fares will be issued
to students whose age does not exceed nineteen (19)
years, upon the production of satisfactory certificates
from the schoolmaster that the applicants are bonâ
fide scholars in attendance at school, and that their
age does not exceed the prescribed limits. Tickets
available only for travelling to and from school.

NEWS BOYS.

Season Tickets at half ordinary fares will be
issued to news boys for use in travelling on the
railways for the purpose of selling newspapers only,
upon the production of a certificate from the pro-
prietor of the newspaper that the tickets are required
and will be used for that purpose only, and that the
person who makes the application is engaged in his
service.

AUCKLAND SECTION.

Passenger fares from Auckland to and from Pen-
rose Junction and Onehunga to be—for first-class
single, one and sixpence (1s. 6d.); for second-class
single, one shilling (1s.); for first-class return, two
shillings (2s.); for second-class return, one shilling
and threepence (1s. 3d.)

Children under fourteen (14) years of age half
price.

TIMBER—SMALL LOTS.

Small lots of timber which can be conveyed in one
truck may be carried at double rates. Minimum
quantity, one hundred (100) superficial feet; mini-
mum charge, one shilling and twopence (1s. 2d.) per
hundred superficial feet.

STORAGE.

Two shillings (2s.) per ton per week, or fraction
of a week, will be charged on all goods at country
stations not removed within twelve (12) working
hours of arrival.

CLASS E.

Seeds, grass and other, in casks or cases carried as
Class E.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of January,
1878.

G. S. WHITMORE,
Minister acting for Minister for
Public Works.

Rewards offered to Discoverers of Payable Gold
Fields, and Payments for the Aid of Prospecting.

THE following terms and conditions on which
rewards will be paid for the discovery of new
gold fields, and payments made for the aid of pros-
pecting, are issued in pursuance of a resolution of
the House of Representatives passed on the 4th
October, 1877:—

CONDITIONS—GENERAL.

1. That person will be deemed the discoverer who
   shall first find gold and notify the same in writing to
   the nearest Warden or Resident Magistrate. In