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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

Australia, and the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queens-
land, are published for general information.

THOMAS DICK,
(in absence of the Minister having charge
of the Marine Department.)

ALTERATION OF LIGHT ON CAPE NORTHUMBERLAND.

THE Marine Board hereby give notice that, on or
about the 1st day of April, 1882, the character of
the light at present shown at Cape Northumberland
will be altered from alternate flashes of red, white,
and green to a revolving light of the first order,
showing a bright flash every sixty seconds. The
lighthouse and keepers' cottages will be removed a
short distance to the eastward of the present posi-
tion. Further particulars will be given as early as
possible.

SPENCER GULF.—NEW LIGHT, CORNY POINT.

The Marine Board of South Australia hereby give
notice that, on or about the 10th day of January,
1882, it is proposed to exhibit a fixed bright light of
the third order from a lighthouse to be erected on
Corny Point, Spencer Gulf.

Further information will be furnished in due
course.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
11th January, 1881.

ADDITIONAL LEADING LIGHTS, LYTTON, BRISBANE
RIVER.

ON and after this date, lights will be exhibited from
the beacons on the south shore at Lytton, above the
boat-shed, the upper one being white, and the lower
one red.

These lights in line lead through mid-channel
between the red and black buoys off the Boat
Passage.

H. W. WYBORN,
Acting Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 18th January, 1881.

Alterations and Additions to the Rates for the Con-
veyance, Delivery, and Storage of Goods, Parcels,
&c., on the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Order in Council dated
the 6th January, 1881, the following alterations
and additions to the rates for the conveyance,
delivery, and storage of goods, parcels, &c., on all the
New Zealand Railways, are hereby declared to be
fixed and to come into force from the 21st February,
1881:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.

GOODS.

Ships' goods of Classes A, B, C, and D, consigned
from Picton to Blenheim, will be charged 10s. 6d.
per ton, including all charges for loading, unloading,
and wharfage.

Ships' goods, Class E, from Picton to Blenheim,
will be charged 8s. 6d. per ton, including all charges
for loading, unloading, and wharfage.

Flax (pressed) from Blenheim to Picton will be
charged 12s. per ton, including all charges for loading,
unloading, and wharfage.

Dated this 16th day of February, 1881.

JOHN HALL,
(acting for Minister for Public Works.)

New Postal District to be established.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 12th February, 1881.

IT is hereby notified for general information that,
from and after the 1st April next, the Post
Office at Gisborne will be constituted a "Chief
Post Office" within the meaning of clause 1 of the
Postal Regulations of the 29th December, 1874.
Following this decision, the under-mentioned new
postal district will therefore be established:—

GISBORNE.

The boundaries of the Gisborne Postal District
shall be the same as those of the County of Cook, as
defined in the first Schedule to "The Counties Act,
1876." The following Sub-Post Offices, which are
within the proposed new postal district, will hence-
forth be under the immediate control of the Chief
Postmaster, Gisborne:—

As the accounts of depositors in the Post Office
Savings Bank, which may have been or may be
opened prior to the 31st March next, cannot, after
that date, be operated upon at Gisborne until the
accounts are transferred, depositors resident within
the Postal District of Gisborne are requested, on or
before the 31st March, to forward their deposit-books
to the Chief Postmaster, Napier, with a notice that
they require their accounts transferred.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1881.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1881.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1880," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.

The Reverend John Lloyd Keating, M.A.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Joseph Loughlin Ahern.
" " John Donovan.
" " Thomas Keane.
" " Michael Walshe.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Civil Service Literary Prize, 1880.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 10th February, 1881.

THREE essays on "The Development of Constitu-
tional Liberty in England" were received under
the mottos "Bene que pacifice," "Satis imperat qui sibi
imperiosus est," and "Præ nuntia pacis."