614
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

passing this buoy no difficulty will be experienced in
reaching the anchorage off Buick's, the sand-banks on
either side being well defined.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
15th April, 1879.

BAY OF BENGAL—BRITISH BURMA.
Sunken Dangers between Alguada Reef and Diamond
Island.

NOTICE is hereby given that a recent examination of
the approaches to the Bassein River, made by the
Superintendent of Marine Surveys, exhibits five
separate shoal ridges—on which are rocky patches
with from 4 to 13 feet water on them—lying in a
N.E. and S.W. direction, between Alguada Reef and
Diamond Island, Bassein River entrance.

The least water discovered was on the Hugh Rose
Rock, which lies N.N.E. + E., distant 2 1/2 miles from
Alguada Reef lighthouse. This rock, on which the
ship "Inchmarnock" struck in April, 1877, has only
from 3 to 4 feet water on it at low water.

Also that the Alguada Reef lighthouse lies S. 9° 30′
W. (true), distant 15 1/2 miles from the pagoda on
Pagoda Point, and S.W. by W., distant nearly three
quarters of a mile from the position at present
assigned to it on the charts.

Mariners are cautioned that the passage between
Alguada Reef and Diamond Island is absolutely
barred, and is most dangerous.

Bearings are magnetic, except where otherwise
noted. Variation 2° 30′ E. 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.)

This notice affects the following: British Admiralty
Charts, Nos. 152, 834, 823, 829, 830, and 70b; Indian
Marine Survey Charts, Nos. 134, 15c, and 15d; Taylor's
Sailing Directory, Vol. i., page 496.

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,
10th March, 1879.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 23 of 1879.

FLAGSTAFF AT OAMARU, EAST COAST OF MIDDLE
ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 7th May, 1879.

THE Oamaru Harbour Board have given notice
that the danger signals are now shown at the
Port of Oamaru from a flagstaff erected on the Cliff
immediately south of the breakwater.

The following signals are shown in accordance with
the provisions of the Harbour Regulations :—

PUT TO SEA OR KEEP TO SEA,—

Day.—Two balls horizontal on yard, on either
side of mast.

Night.—Two white lights horizontal, with a red
light between them.

In bad weather the green light at the end of the
breakwater cannot be shown. Masters of vessels in
the roadstead will have to exercise judgment as to
the practicability of getting their vessels to sea, as
these signals have at times to be exhibited during
calm weather.

J. BALLANCE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 24 of 1879.

HARBOUR LIGHT AT PATEA, WEST COAST OF NORTH
ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 7th May, 1879.

NOTICE is hereby given that, on and after the
night of Monday, the 9th June, 1879, a Har-
bour Light will be exhibited from a Lighthouse
erected on the eastern side of the Patea River.

The light will be a fixed red light, the apparatus
being one of Messrs. Chance Brothers and Co.'s
sixth-order port lights.

The light, which will show all round seaward, will
be elevated about 133 feet above the level of the sea,
and will be seen in clear weather at a distance of
about five to six nautic miles.

J. BALLANCE.

Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint JOSEPH G. BAKER,
of Motueka, to be an Interpreter under the twelfth
section of "The Native Land Act, 1873."

JOHN SHEEHAN.

Assistant Surveyor appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 30th April, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint DAVID WATT, Esq.,
to be an Assistant Surveyor in the Survey Depart-
ment of New Zealand, from 28th March, 1879.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Ranger of Crown Lands appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint JOSHUA RUTLAND
to be a Ranger of Crown Lands within the Land
District of Marlborough.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1879.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
tenderers is published for general information.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

ASHBURTON BRANCH RAILWAY.—ASHBURTON
CONTRACT.

John Frazer and Co., Christchurch
John Black, Dunedin
C. Wady and Co., Dunedin
E. G. Wright, Dunedin
Charles Abbot, Dunedin

Accepted.
£ s. d.
11,503 18 5

Declined.
11,924 16 7
12,732 18 5
13,929 0 0
15,779 0 0