1879.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

to be an Interpreter under the twelfth section of
"The Native Land Act, 1873."
G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Native Minister.)

Native Agent appointed.
Native Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
EDWARD SWARTZ MAUNSELL, Esq.,
to be Native Agent in the Wairarapa District.
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Resignation of Constabulary Officer.
Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by the under-mentioned officer :-
New Zealand Armed Constabulary Force.
Surgeon Henry Thomas Hugh Chapman.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Cadets appointed.
General Survey Department,
Wellington, 1st September, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
NORMAN HURSTHOUSE MACDONALD and
HUGH RONALD ATKINSON
to be Cadets in the Survey Department of New
Zealand. Appointments dating from 2nd July, 1879.
G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 44 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th August, 1879.
THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
are published for general information.
G. S. WHITMORE,
(for Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

AFRICA-EAST COAST. - ZANZIBAR HARBOUR.-
BUOYS AND BEACONS.
THE Hydrographic Department of the British Ad-
miralty has published the following information,
received from Captain H. E. G. Earle, H.M.S.
"London," relative to alteration in the buoyage of
Southern Pass, and in the leading mark and buoy-
age of English Pass, approaches to Zanzibar Har-
bour:-
Southern Pass.-Mtwana Shoal buoy, conical and
painted black, now lies one cable S.S.W. of its for-
mer position, with the shoalest spot of Outer Mtwana
Shoal bearing E. by S., distant two cables.
The buoy marking the eastern edge of Kisiki
Bank is now painted black and white in vertical
stripes, with staff and square.
English Pass.-Walleso House being hidden by
trees, and no longer available as a leading mark, two
beacons have been erected on the shore in front of
Mtoni Palace, which, kept in line with a white door
in the centre of the palace, bearing S.S.E. E., lead
through the northern portion of English Pass.

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The beacons, 30 feet high, consist of poles painted
black and white; the outer beacon is surmounted by
a square painted white, the inner by a triangle
painted white.
The buoys marking the eastern edge of Chapani
Reef are now cask-shaped and painted red.
The bearings are magnetic. Variation, 10 1/2° wes-
terly, in 1879.
By direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR,
Comdr. (late I.N.),
Superintendent, Marine Surveys of India.
Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 17th June, 1879.

BAY OF BENGAL-COAST OF ORISSA.-ALTERATION
OF FALSE POINT LIGHT.
WITH reference to this department Notice to Mari-
ners No. 4, dated 17th January, 1879, it having been
found impracticable to exhibit the present light from
False Point Lighthouse, during the improvements to
the lantern and lighting apparatus:
Notice is hereby given that, from the 1st of No-
vember, 1879, the light now exhibited at False Point
will be discontinued, and a blue light, immediately
followed by a rocket, will be burnt from the upper
part of the lighthouse every quarter of an hour, from
sunset to sunrise, and will continue to be thus burnt
for a period of three months from that date.
Due notice will be given of the details of the new
dioptric light about to be established.
By direction of the Government of India.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR,
Comdr. (late I.N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
Marine Survey Department,
Calcutta, 19th June, 1879.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 45 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th August, 1879.
THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, are published
for general information.
G. S. WHITMORE,
(for Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

RIVER MURRAY.
As the Road Board have intimated that they are now
unable to exhibit the light recently shown from a rock
near the Swanport Ferry, River Murray, notice is
hereby given that the Marine Board do not consider
the light necessary, and that its exhibition will in
future be discontinued.
Marine Board Offices,
R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.
Port Adelaide, 23rd June, 1879.

GULF OF ST. VINCENT. - CHANNEL LEADING TO PORT
ADELAIDE.
REFERRING to Notice No. 6, issued from this office
on the 11th June, 1879, mariners are hereby informed
that, owing to unforeseen circumstances, the gas
lights in the channel leading to Port Adelaide will
not be exhibited before the 1st day of August next.
R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 14th July, 1879.