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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Bearings are magnetic. Variation 2° 45′ easterly
in 1878.
By direction of the Government of India.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comd. late I.N.,
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.

This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:
Rangoon and Bassein or Negrais Rivers, No. 834;
Preparis North Channel, No. 152; Coronge Island
to White Point, No. 823; Cocanada to Bassein River,
No. 829; Bassein River to Pulo Penang, No. 830;
Bay of Bengal, Eastern Sheet, No. 70b; also Indian
Marine Survey Charts, Nos. 134 and 15c and d; and
Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. i., page 496.

If this notice is received on board ship, the substance
of it should be inserted on the charts affected by it,
and introduced into the sailing directions to which
it relates.

Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 4th December, 1878.

BAY OF BENGAL—GODAVERY DISTRICT—COCANADA.
Intended Exhibition of Revolving Light at
Vakalapudi.

NOTICE is hereby given that, owing to the extension
of the mud deposits from the Godavery River, and
the consequent removal of the anchorage to the
northward, the light at present shown on the north
side of the entrance to the Cocanada River is of
little use, and that, on and after the 15th of January,
1879, this light will be extinguished, and a new light
exhibited at Vakalapudi, which lies 4·6 nautic miles
N. by E. 3/4 E. from the present lighthouse.

The light will be a revolving white light, showing a
flash every 20 seconds, elevated 80 feet above high
water, and in clear weather should be visible from a
distance of 14 miles in every direction seaward.
The illuminating apparatus is catadioptric, or by
reflectors and lenses of the fourth order.
Position: Latitude 17° 0′ 40″ N., longitude 82°
16′ 30″ E.

Further notice will be given when the light is
exhibited.
The bearing is magnetic. Variation 2º easterly
in 1878.
By direction of the Government of India.

R. C. CARRINGTON,
Chief Civil Assistant,
(for A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comd. late I.N.,
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.)

This notice affects the following Indian Marine
Survey Charts: Coringa or Cocanada Bay, No. 113;
Narsapur Point to Palmyras Point, No. 1172; Cape
Comorin to Cocanada, No. 156; and Admiralty
Charts of Coringa or Cocanada Bay, No. 81; Coro-
mandel Coast, No. 71a; Cape Comorin to Cocanada,
No. 828; Cocanada to Bassein, No. 829; Bay of
Bengal, western part, No. 70a; Indian Ocean,
northern portion, No. 748b; also Indian Marine
Survey and Admiralty Light Lists for 1878; and
Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. i., page 464.

If this notice is received on board ship, the sub-
stance of it should be inserted on the charts affected
by it, and introduced into the sailing directions to
which it relates.

Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 18th December, 1878.

Members of Harbour Boards appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th February, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of

section 23 of "The Harbours Act, 1878," made the
following appointments :—

James Thomas Boylan,
William Crush Daldy, and
Levi Woodworth Eaton,
to be Members of the Auckland Harbour Board;

William Craig and
Thomas Pratt
to be Members of the Bluff Harbour Board;

Thomas Uppadine Cook,
Francis Loudon, and
Ernest Stephen Thynne,
to be Members of the Foxton Harbour Board;

The Hon. Edward Richardson, M.H.R., and
Peter Cunningham,
to be Members of the Lyttelton Harbour Board;

Joseph Reid Bremner,
Neil Campbell,
David Campbell Dunbar,
Andrew McKerrow,
William Murcott, and
Andrew Riddell,
to be Members of the Moeraki Harbour Board;

John Buchanan,
William Common, and
The Hon. John Nathaniel Wilson,
to be Members of the Napier Harbour Board;

Frederick Alonzo Carrington, M.H.R., and
Robert Thompson,
to be Members of the New Plymouth Harbour
Board;

The Hon. Robert Campbell, M.L.C.,
The Hon. Henry John Miller, M.L.C.,
John Reid, and
Samuel Edward Shrimski, M.H.R.,
to be Members of the Oamaru Harbour Board;

Alexander Burt,
Hugh McNeil, and
Peter Logan,
to be Members of the Otago Harbour Board;

George Francis Sherwood
to be a Member of the Patea Harbour Board;

Theophilus Daniel,
Edward Mitford Hankinson,
Samuel Hodgkinson, M.H.R., and
John Petchell,
to be Members of the Riverton Harbour Board;

Fulbert Archer,
Edward Elworthy,
Thomas Williamson Hall, and
Richard Turnbull, M.H.R.,
to be Members of the Timaru Harbour Board;

Thomas Bayley,
William Halse, and
Burton Charles Lawrence,
to be Members of the Waitara Harbour Board;

John Beharrell and
George Herbert Wearing
to be Members of the Waimakariri Harbour Board;

David Lundon
to be a Member of the Wanganui Harbour Board; and

George Burton and
Matthew Robertson Miller
to be Members of the Wairoa Harbour Board.

G. GREY.

Receiver of Land Revenue appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILSON HEAPS, Esq.,