THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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The bearings are magnetic. Variation 2° 30' | to the northward. Vessels should now anchor in 5
easterly in 1878.
By direction of the Government of India.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. late I.N.
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 3rd January, 1879.

(No. 3.)—BAY OF BENGAL—GODAVERY DISTRICT—
COCANADA.
Revolving Light at Vakalapudi.

WITH reference to this Department Notice to
Mariners, No. 27, of 8th December, 1878, on the
intended exhibition of a revolving light at Vakalapudi,
telegraphic information has this day been received
that the light was exhibited on the 15th instant, and
that on the same night the small light formerly
shown on the north side of the entrance to Cocanada
River was discontinued.

The light is a revolving white light of the fourth
order, flashing at intervals of 20 seconds, elevated 80
feet above high water, and should be visible in clear
weather from a distance of 14 miles in every direc-
tion seaward.

The light tower—a white column 76 feet high
from base to vane—is situated to seaward of the
cocoanut trees, about 2½ cables from the shore, and
4.6 nautic miles N. by E. $\frac{3}{4}$ E. from the old light-
house at Cocanada.

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.

This light is intended to lead vessels clear of the
shoals to the north of Point Godavari (Gordeware),
when coming into the Cocanada anchorage from the
southward and eastward.

In rounding the point, vessels should not come
under 10 fathoms till the Vakalapudi light bears to
the westward of W.N.W., and the fixed light on
Hope Island bears S. by W., when the anchorage,
which is in 5 fathoms, may be safely approached.

The bearings are magnetic: Variation 2° 0′ easterly
in 1879.

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, 16th January, 1879.

(No. 4.)—BAY OF BENGAL, COAST OF ORISSA.
Intended Alteration in False Point Light.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended shortly to
substitute, for the present very inefficient light at
False Point, a first order dioptric fixed light, which
will illuminate 200° of arc, and be visible at a dis-
tance of about 20 miles.

The present light will be shown until the new light
is exhibited, due notice and details of which will be
given.

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, 17th January, 1879.

(No. 5.)—INDIA—WEST COAST—MALABAR COAST.
Shifting of the Entrances to Honore (Honawa) and
Mangalore.

1. Honore (Honawa), North Canara.—Notice is
   hereby given that the entrance to Honore (Honawa)
   has, since the last survey, shifted half a nautic mile
   or 6 fathoms, mud, with the monument in line with
   the river mouth bearing about E. $\frac{3}{4}$ N.

2. Mangalore, South Canara.—Also, that the en-
   trance to the Mangalore River has shifted nearly one
   nautic mile to the northward. Vessels should now
   anchor in 5 or 6 fathoms, mud, with the lighthouse
   bearing E. $\frac{1}{2}$ S.

The bearings are magnetic. Variation, 0° 45′
easterly in 1879.

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, 17th January, 1879.

(No. 6.)—INDIA—WEST COAST—GULF OF CUTCH.
Fixed Light at Roji (Nowa-nugag).

OFFICIAL information has been received in this
Department that a light is now—and has been since
the year 1867—exhibited on Roji Island, south shore
of the Gulf of Cutch.

The light is a fixed white light, elevated 42 feet
above high water, and should be visible in clear
weather from a distance of 7 miles, through an arc
of 120°, or between the bearings of S.E. by E. $\frac{1}{2}$ E.,
round by the south to S.W. by W. $\frac{1}{4}$ W.

The light tower is round and white-washed, is 50
feet high from base to vane, and is situated near the
west corner of Roji mata (temple), which lies on the
north-east point of Roji Island, at the entrance to
Nowa-nugga Creek.

The illuminating apparatus consists of a lantern
with three burners and reflectors.

Position (Admiralty Chart): Latitude 22° 32′
50″ N., longitude 70° 1′ 30″ E.

The bearings are magnetic and from seaward.
Variation 1° 0′ easterly in 1879.

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, 17th January, 1879.

(No. 7.)—INDIA—WEST COAST—GULF OF CUTCH.
Fixed Light at Entrance to Toona Creek.

INFORMATION has been received from the Political
Agent at Cutch Mandvee that a light was exhibited,
on the 5th September, 1878, from a lighthouse
recently erected on the swampy land south of Tekra
Island, as a guide to vessels making for Toona,
north shore of the Gulf of Cutch.

The light is a fixed white light, shown from an
ordinary lantern elevated 17 feet above high water,
and should be visible in clear weather from a distance
of 6 miles.

The light tower—which is built of stone, and 23
feet high—stands on the eastern edge of a low man-
grove swamp about three-quarters of a mile south of
Tekra Island, Toona Creek. At high tides this
swamp is overflowed, which gives the lighthouse the
appearance of being built in the water.

Position (Admiralty Chart): Latitude 22° 55′ 30″
N., longitude 70° 7′ 10″ 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, 20th January, 1879.