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do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned
warehouse, viz. :-

Port of Poverty Bay.
A portion of a cellar situate on Section 373,
Read's Block, Gladstone Road, Gisborne, and to be
known as
COMMON'S BOND,
-to be a warehouse for the reception of goods
under bond.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of February, one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Customs.

Commissioner's Order No. 130.]

Notice to Mariners. - No. 9 of 1880.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1880.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
Portmaster, Brisbane, are published for general in-
formation.

H. A. ATKINSON.

SPENCER GULF.

NOTICE is hereby given that the s.s. "Governor
Musgrave," whilst proceeding from Franklin Har-
bour towards Salt Creek Cove, struck a rock, having,
it is supposed, about 10 feet water over it. It was
nearly low water at the time, and soundings taken
gave 3 fathoms. Approximate position of the rock,
lat. 33° 48′ 30″ S., long. 136° 52' 15" Е.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President of Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 10th January, 1880.

SUNKEN PATCH, PRINCE OF WALES CHANNEL,
TORRES STRAITS.

THE sunken patch in the Prince of Wales Channel,
upon which the "Canon Harrison" touched, has
been found to lie in the following position: Beacon
on Ipili Reef, E. N.; south-west extreme of Goode
Island, S.E. S.

The patch, which is of coral, is 200 feet in length
by 100 in width, and has on it a depth of 16 feet at
low-water springs.

The black buoy recently placed off the south end
of d reef is now laid on this sunken patch.

G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 27th January, 1880.

NORTH-WEST CHANNEL, MORETON BAY.

A LARGE beacon is now placed at the back of the
beach on Bribie Island, which, when in a line with
the South-east Glasshouse on a S.W. by W. bearing,
leads through the channel between the North Banks
and the Hamilton Patches in not less than 6
fathoms at low water.

The northern half of the beacon is painted white,
and the southern half black, the latter colour ren-
dering the beacon more distinguishable when the
Sun is to the westward.

G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 4th February, 1880.

Notice to Mariners. - No. 10 of 1880.

DISCONTINUANCE OF HARBOUR STAFF AND LIGHT AT
WAIKOUAITI, EAST COAST OF MIDDLE ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th February, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that, from and after the
first day of April next, the harbour establish-
ment at Waikouaiti, and the white harbour light at
present exhibited there, will be discontinued.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Notice.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1880.

IT is hereby notified for public information that,
concurrently with the establishment of the new
fortnightly mail service between Europe and
Australia vid Brindisi and Colombo, the Imperial
Government has decided to abandon the route via
Southampton.

For the future, therefore, only a mail via Brindisi
will be made up for the United Kingdom by the
Suez route.

The rates of postage on correspondence from
New Zealand for the United Kingdom via Brindisi
will remain as at present, viz. :-

Letters ... ... ... 8d. per ounce.
Books ... ... ... 2d. per ounce.
Newspapers ... ... 2d. each 4-ounce paper,
and 1d. for each ad-
ditional 4 ounces.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Name of Telegraph Station changed.

Telegraph Department,
(Head Office,)
Wellington, 12th February, 1880.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
the Telegraph Station hitherto known as Alex-
andra, Vincent, will, from and after the 1st March,
1880, be known as Manuherikia.

JOHN HALL,
Telegraph Commissioner.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1880.

THE Loyal Mosgiel Lodge is registered as a
Branch of the Otago District of the Manchester
Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows Friendly
Society, under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877,"
this 25th day of February, 1880.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Deaf and Dumb Institution, Sumner, Canterbury.

Education Department,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1880.

THE Government having secured suitable accom-
modation at Sumner, Canterbury, for the pro-
posed Institution for the Education and Training of
Deaf-mutes, Mr. and Mrs. Van Asch will be prepared
to receive pupil-boarders at the Institution on the
1st March, 1880. Full information may be obtained
on application to the undersigned, or to the Secre-
taries of the several Education Boards.

By order.

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.