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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(No. 11.)-EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO-CELEBES ISLAND
-NORTH COAST.

Shoal Coral Ground in Strait of Banka.
THE Netherlands Government has given notice of
the existence of two coral shoals lying nearly in the
fairway of Strait of Banka, north coast of Celebes
Island:-

1. A shoal, on which the least water found was
   3 1/2 fathoms, lying with the following bearings, viz :-
   Cape Coffin ... S. 56° E.
   Likoepang Flagstaff ... S. 39 1/4° W.
   North Cape ... N. 80° W.
2. A shoal, on which the shoalest depth obtained
   was 6 1/2 fathoms, situated 9 cables north-west of the
   above shoal, and lying with the following bearings,
   viz.:-
   Cape Coffin ... S. 54 1/4° E.
   Likoepang Flagstaff... S. 31° W.
   North Cape ... N. 85 1/4° W.
   NOTE. -The south point of Nain Island just open
   of North Cape leads northward of this shoal ground.
   The bearings are magnetic. Variation 1 1/4° 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, 20th February, 1879.

Registration of a Friendly Society cancelled.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1879.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of
Friendly Societies has, pursuant to section 11
of "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877," by writing
under his hand dated the 3rd day of April, 1879,
cancelled the registry of "The Right Worthy Grand
Lodge of New Zealand, Independent Order of Odd-
fellows" (Register No. 111), with a view to registra-
tion (as a Society having branches) of the Society of
which it is the central body, viz.: "The Independent
Order of Oddfellows of New Zealand."
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar.

Society registered under "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1877."

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1879.
"THE Independent Order of Oddfellows of New
Zealand" is registered as a Friendly Society,
under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877," this 3rd
day of April, 1879.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branches registered under "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1877."

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1879.
THE following Lodges are registered as branches
of "The Independent Order of Oddfellows of New
Zealand," under "The Friendly Societies Act,
1877," this 3rd day of April, 1879:-
No. 1. "Loyal Pioneer Lodge," situated at Dun-
edin.
No. 2. "Loyal Star of Canterbury Lodge," situated
at Timaru.
No. 3. "Loyal Mount Ida Lodge," situated at
Naseby.
No. 4. "Loyal Alexandrovna Lodge," situated at
Temuka.
No. 5. "Loyal Unity Lodge," situated at South
Dunedin.
No. 6. "Loyal Point Lodge," situated at Pleasant
Point, Timaru.
No. 7. "Loyal Avon Lodge," situated at Christ-
church.
No. 8. "Loyal Southern Cross Lodge," situated at
Wellington.
No. 9. "Rangitikei Lodge," situated at Bull's.
No. 10. "Winchester Lodge," situated at Win-
chester.
No. 11. "Loyal Wanganui Lodge, No. 2," situated
at Wanganui.
No. 12. "Alfred Lodge, No. 8," situated at Oamaru.
No. 13. "Green Island Lodge, No. 22," situated
at Green Island.
No. 14. "Ravensbourne Lodge, No. 25," situated
at Ravensbourne.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1879.--NOTICE No. 6.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1879.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information:-

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend John Lothian.
Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Otter Christoffersen.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regula-
tions made under that Act for the granting of leases
for gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it
is intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such lease.
Objections to granting such lease, stating the
grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and
lodged with the Warden at Lawrence on or before
the 9th day of May, 1879.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Lawrence.

SCHEDULE.
APPLICANTS: John C. Arbuckle and others. Style
under which it is intended to conduct the business:
"The St. Lawrence Cement and Quartz Gold-Mining
Company." 10 acres, at Tuapeka East, in the Tuapeka
Mining District.
Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this twenty-
ninth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.
J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)