1879.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1777

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers:---

Auckland Engineer Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant John Forster Saunders. Date of
resignation, 11th December, 1879.

Kakaramea Rifles.
Captain William Stanley Ginger. Date of resigna-
tion, 13th December, 1879.
JOHN HALL.

Resignation of Officer in Command of 3rd Battalion,
Otago Rifle Volunteers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
Major William Jukes Steward
as Officer in Command of the 3rd Battalion, Otago
Rifle Volunteers.
JOHN HALL.

Formation of Battalion.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
form

The Victoria Rifle Volunteers,
The No. 3 Auckland Rifle Volunteers,
The Hobson Rifle Volunteers, and
The Auckland Scottish Rifle Volunteers

into a battalion for drill purposes, under the desig-
nation of

The Auckland Rifle Battalion;
and to appoint Major James Derrom (New Zealand
Volunteers) to command the same.
JOHN HALL.

Governors of Timaru High School appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 29th December, 1879.

PURSUANT to section 3 of "The Timaru High
School Act, 1878," His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT ALEXANDER CHISHOLM, Esq., and
The Rev. WILLIAM GILLIES

to be Members of the Board of Governors of the
Timaru High School.
WM. ROLLESTON.

New Zealand Telegraphs.

New Zealand Telegraphs, Head Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1879.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
the official designation of the "General Manager"
of the New Zealand Electric Telegraph Lines has
been altered by "The Electric Telegraph Act Amend-
ment Act, 1879," to that of "Superintendent."
JOHN HALL,
Commissioner of Telegraphs.

Members of Napier Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th December, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of
the provisions of section 40 of "The Harbours
Act, 1878," been pleased to appoint

ANDREW WARDROP and
ALFRED NEWMAN

to be Members of the Napier Harbour Board, in
place of William Common, resigned, and John Bu-
chanan, who has forfeited his seat under the pro-
visions of section 43 of the above-mentioned Act
by being absent without leave of the Board from
four consecutive meetings thereof.
JOHN HALL,
(in absence of the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 68 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 30th December, 1879.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Hydrographer to the Admiralty, London,
and the Portmaster, Brisbane, are published for
general information.

JOHN HALL,
(in absence of the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

AUSTRALIA. - NORTH-WEST COAST. - REPORTED
EXISTENCE OF DANGEROUS ROCKS SOUTH-WEST
OF ROWLEY SHOALS.

THE following has been received from the Govern-
ment of Western Australia, on the authority of M.
Charles Pertis, master of the French ship "Eldo-
rado:"-

On 20th May, 1879, at 3 p.m., the weather being
cloudy with rain, wind from the northward, the ship
"Eldorado" (then proceeding to Lacepede Island),
in lat. 18° 24' S., long. 117° 47' E. of Greenwich,
sighted two rocks bearing N.N.W. distant five or six
miles, apparently extending in an east and west
direction. One of these rocks was of considerable
size, and estimated to be 16 or 18 feet high.

When first sighted the ship was hauled to the
wind, and a sounding of 105 fathoms obtained. A
course was then shaped for Lacepede Island, at
which place the ship arrived on 22nd May at 2.45
p.m.; light breezes from W. to S.S.W. having been
experienced in the interval.

The foregoing account places the rocks in (approxi-
mately) lat. 18° 20′ S., long. 117° 45′ E.

The bearing is magnetic. Variation 14° westerly
in 1879.

By command of their Lordships.
FREDK. J. EVANS,
Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,
10th October, 1879.

RED LIGHT, ISLAND POINT.

A FIXED red light of the fifth order is now exhibited
from the north end of Island Point. It stands 82
feet above high water, and is visible from a distance
of some eight miles between the bearings of W. by N.
and S.E. by S.

Vessels from the southward will be clear of the
Wentworth and Alexander Reefs, and vessels
approaching the anchorage at Port Douglas will be
clear of Morey Reef, while the red light is in sight.