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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 143

Authority to Frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The DRAUGHTSMAN in charge of LAND and SURVEY
OFFICES, GISBORNE,
to frank, free from the prepayment of postage, letters
and parcels posted on the public service.

JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to Frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The PROPERTY-TAX COMMISSIONER, and
The ORGANIZING INSPECTOR OF NATIVE SCHOOLS,
to frank and receive, free from the prepayment of
postage, letters and parcels posted on the public
service.

JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

Officers of Telegraph Department dismissed.

New Zealand Telegraph,
Head Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
direct that the under-mentioned officers of the
Department of the Electric Telegraph Commissioner
be dismissed from the public service of the colony,
viz. :-

LOUIS FREDERICK CLAYTON,
LEONARD ROSE JAGGAR,
ALFRED JAMES RENNER, and
CHARLES DURBRIDGE.

JOHN HALL,
Telegraph Commissioner.

Officer dismissed from the Public Service.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
dismiss from the public service of the colony
JAMES LOWRIE,
Harbourmaster and Pilot at Kaipara.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Notice to Mariners. -No. 8 of 1880.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 6th February, 1880.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the Marine Board, Sydney, is published for
general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

ALTERATION IN LIGHTS ON THE COAST.

ON and after the night of Monday, the 2nd February,
the danger arc of the Crowdy Head Light for clear-
ing the Mermaid Reef will be shaded red, in place of
being darkened, as described in the notification issued
from this office on the 5th November last.

2. On the same date (2nd February) the tempo-
   rary light at the Clarence River Heads will be
   discontinued, andithe fourth order dioptric fixed light
   exhibited instead. This will be visible in ordinary
   weather at a distance of ten or twelve miles from
   seaward.

3. The two bright temporary lights at the Rich-
   mond River Heads will also be discontinued on the
   2nd February, and a red fixed light exhibited, that
   will be visible from seaward at a distance of about ten
   miles in clear weather.

FRANCIS HIXSON,
President.

Office of Marine Board of New South Wales,
20th January, 1880.

Members of Kakanui Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of
the provisions of the sixth section of "The
Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1879," been pleased
to appoint

Robert Blair,
Francis Bromley,
Lewis George Fenwick,
Mathew Morton,
Robert Morton,
Alexander Thomson, and
William Henry Teschmaker
to be Members of the Kakanui Harbour Board.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Member of Dunedin Botanical Domain Board resigned.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of

Professor F. W. HUTTON
as a Member of the Dunedin Botanical Domain
Board.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Certain Land classed as Pastoral Land.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that the Commissioners
appointed in pursuance of the seventy-fifth
section of "The Land Act, 1877," have reported to
His Excellency the Governor that the land described
in the Schedule hereto shall be classified as pastoral
land, and the Governor has determined that the same
shall be disposed of as pastoral land upon deferred
payments, as provided by sections seventy-six to
eighty-five inclusive of "The Land Act, 1877."

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

SCHEDULE.

TUAPEKA EAST DISTRICT.
12 | IX. | A. R. P.
2 | XI. | 783 3 0
1 | XII. | 1,598 2 4
TABLE HILL DISTRICT.
10 | VIII. | 2,328 1 24
| | 512 1 3

Resignation and Appointment of Members of the
Oamaru Racecourse Trust.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of

W. J. STEWARD, Esq.,