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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

IN RE "THE PUBLIC PAYMENTS WITHOUT PRO-
BATE ACT, 1869."

Thomas Houghton Bartley, late of Stokes Point,
Auckland, formerly Speaker of the Legislative
Council, deceased.

UNDER the provisions of "The Public Payments
without Probate Act, 1869," and the Regu-
lations made thereunder, published in the New
Zealand Gazette, 1870, page 212, the Colonial
Treasurer intends to make a payment of money due
to the above-named deceased to persons not being
his legal representatives. All persons objecting to
such payment being made must give notice to the
Colonial Treasurer, at Wellington, within one calen-
dar month from the date of the Gazette containing
this notice, when their objections will be considered.

J. BALLANCE,
Colonial Treasurer.

Appointments, &c., in the Customs Department.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 8th March, 1879.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to the Com-
missioner of Customs by His Excellency the
Governor, the following appointments have been
made in the Customs Department :-

Robert Thompson, to be Collector at New Ply-
mouth. Appointment to date from 13th Febru-
ary, 1879.

Henry Blunt Farquhar, First Clerk and Ware-
housekeeper at the Port of Nelson, to be Col-
lector at Oamaru. Appointment to date from
14th February, 1879.

Alfred Carter, Clerk at Poverty Bay, to be Clerk
at the Port of Wellington.

George Prain, Clerk at Dunedin, to be Clerk at
the Port of Poverty Bay.

William Holmes, Jun., Locker at Wellington, to
be Junior Clerk at the Port of Nelson.

John Provis, Tide Surveyor at Auckland, to be
Clerk and Landing-Waiter at the Port of
Napier.

Henry Parker, Locker at Auckland, to be Tide
Surveyor at that Port.

Kenneth Bruce McIver, to be a Cadet at the
Port of Lyttelton.

John Hempton, to be a Cadet at the Port of
Wellington.

G. GREY.

Collector of Customs, New Plymouth, resigned.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 28th February, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that

JOHN BARLEYMAN, Esq.,

has tendered the resignation of his office of Collector
of Customs at New Plymouth, and that the same has
been accepted.

G. GREY.

Members of Waimakariri Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has, in pursuance of the provisions of
section 41 of "The Harbours Act, 1878," been
pleased to appoint

PHILLIP COLLIN THRELKELD and
FREDERICK DENTON

to be Members of the Waimakariri Harbour Board.

G. GREY.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 10 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th March, 1879.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, Mel-
bourne, is published for general information.

G. GREY.

North Coast of Tasmania.—Shoal Eastward of Petrel
Island.

CAPTAIN HUGHES, of the schooner "Eva," reports
that, when he was standing to the westward for the
anchorage, east of Petrel Island, he observed the 3-
fathom shoal marked on the chart, and shaped his
course to pass to leeward of it (wind S.S.W.). When
due.north of the shoal, and at a distance of about a
quarter of a mile from it, the centre-board of the
"Eva" touched the ground in 10 feet water, chart
giving 4 fathoms. Captain Hughes is of opinion
there is not more than 6 feet water on the shoal
marked 3 fathoms, and that the shoal is extending to
the northward.

CHARLES B. PAYNE,
Chief Harbourmaster.

Ports and Harbours Office,
Melbourne, 29th January, 1879.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 11 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th March, 1879.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Superintendent of Marine Surveys, Cal-
cutta, are published for general information.

G. GREY.

(No. 1.)-INDIA—BAY OF BENGAL.
Approach to River Hooghly.—Permanent Moorings
for Eastern Channel Light-Vessel.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in consequence of incon-
venience having been caused by the shifting of the
position of the Eastern Channel Light-Vessel—
hitherto occupying a S.W. or N.E. monsoon station
in each respective season—permanent moorings have
now been laid, and the light-ship will, in future,
remain in the following position all the year
round:-

The light-vessel is moored in 10 fathoms at low-
water spring tides, in latitude 21° 1' 19" N., longitude
88° 13' 0" E.

By direction of the Government of India.

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

Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 1st January, 1879.

(No. 2.)-BAY OF BENGAL—COAST OF TENASSERIM.
Sunken Danger in Mergui Archipelago.

MR. E. C. RUSSELL, Commanding the British India
Steam Navigation Company's steam vessel "Medina,"
whilst on his voyage from Rangoon to Penang vid
the Coast ports, discovered a dangerous patch of rock
and sand with rather less than two fathoms on it at
low-water spring tides; lying with—

Centre of Bound Island, bearing W. N.
South extreme of Cantor's Island, bearing S. W. S.
Position (Admiralty Chart): Latitude 12° 15' 0"
N., longitude 98° 19' 50" E.