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Vessels drawing over 12 feet should not come to
the south of a line between the vessel and the
northern face of the jetty at low water.
There is 13 feet close to the light vessel at low-
water spring tides.
H. A. ATKINSON.

By following these directions a vessel will not
have less than 16 feet at low water.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 25th September, 1879.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 51 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th October, 1879.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Marine Board, Hobart Town, Tasmania, is
published for general information.
H. A. ATKINSON.

EXHIBITION OF REVOLVING LIGHT AT KING ISLAND.
NOTICE is hereby given that the light at Currie
Harbour, on the west coast of King Island (the
preliminary notice of its erection was made 26th
October, 1878), will be completed and exhibited
from and after the 1st day of March, 1880.

The following corrected description of the tower,
light, and position is given for general informa-
tion :-

Tower. Is an iron tower, 70 feet high, sup-
ported by six cast-iron colomns, the lower ends ter-
minating in screw piles. It has a wrought-iron
light room, and central tube for staircase. It will
stand on an eminence about 70 feet high on the
south side of Currie Harbour, in lat. 39° 56' 45" S.,
long. 143° 51' E.

Light. Is of the first order, dioptric, holophotal,
revolving, with flashes every twelve seconds, viz.,
five flashes and eclipses alternately in a minute, and
will illuminate an arc of 180°, viz., from New Year's
Islands on the north to Point Cataraque on the
south. The light is 150 feet above the sea level, and
will be seen in ordinary weather at a distance of
seventeen or eighteen miles.

Caution. Mariners approaching King Island are
particularly directed to note the distinction between
Currie Harbour Light and that on Cape Otway on
the Victorian coast:—

Currie Harbour Light shows five bright flashes
every minute.
Cape Otway Light shows one bright flash every
minute.
E. K. BARNARD,
Master Warden.
Marine Board Office, Hobart Town,
27th August, 1879.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 52 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th October, 1879.

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

MIDDLE CHANNEL, MORETON BAY.

VESSELS entering the port by the Middle Channel
must cross the East Banks with the lighthouse on
Cape Moreton open to the southward of the Yellow
Patch Lighthouse a distance equal to one-third of
the height of the cape, and keep them in that
position until nearing the Venus Bank Spit, when
the line of lights must be crossed, and the spit
rounded with the Cape Moreton Lighthouse open a
similar distance to the northward.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 53 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 9th October, 1879.

NOTICE is hereby given that a rock, having only
6 feet of water on it at low water, has been
discovered about 100 feet E.N.E. of Pinnacle Rock,
Poverty Bay. Vessels should not anchor within a
cable's length of the Pinnacle Buoy, which marks the
position of both rocks; and, if bound for the river,
they should bring it to bear well to the eastward
before hauling up.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Appointment in Survey Department.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 8th October, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
RICHARD WITHER
to be a Cadet in the Survey Department of New
Zealand. Appointment dating from the 22nd Sep-
tember, 1879.
W. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th October, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease cancelled; and
that the ground is now open for application as if no
lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
Horace Debney Monk and others (Kaipapa
Claim); 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches, Queen Char-
lotte Sound Mining District.
R. OLIVER.

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th October, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-
mentioned special claim in the Nelson South-West
Gold Fields cancelled; and that the ground is now
open for application as if no lease of the said
ground had ever been applied for:—
George Wise, for the Anderson's Extended Com-
pany; 34 acres 2 roods 28 perches, District of Mur-
ray Creek, Inangahua.
R. OLIVER.