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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

NAVIGATION OF THE WEST CHANNEL. - KNOLL NEAR
THE SWAN LIGHTSHIP.

PILOTS, masters of vessels, and others are informed
that a shoal has again formed in the vicinity of the
lightship at the Swan Spit. It bears N.E. $\frac{1}{2}$ N. (magnetic) from the lightship, from which it is dis-
tant $1 \frac{1}{2}$ cables' length. This knoll is a cable's length
to the westward of that reported in a Notice to
Mariners dated the 18th February, 1874.

The shallowest water now found on this knoll is
14 feet 4 inches at low-water springs. Owing to its
being found directly in the fairway, and great incon-
venience to steamers having previously been ex-
perienced from the screws fouling the moorings, it is
not intended to mark its position with a chequered
buoy as heretofore.

Point Nepean well open to the eastward of the
Swan Spit Lightship will lead clear of the shoal,
but during the night vessels should not approach the
lightship nearer than 2 cables' length in passing.

CHARLES B. PAYNE,
Officer in Charge of Harbour Department.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 9th February, 1882.

Approving and appointing a Kerosene Bonding
Warehouse.

CUSTOMS. - In exercise of the powers in me for
this purpose vested by "The Customs Regula-
tion Act, 1858," I, the Commissioner of Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under mentioned
warehouse, viz.,-

Port of Auckland.

A building partly of iron and partly of concrete,
with iron roof, situate in Stanley Street, on part of
Allotment 19, Section 9, City of Auckland, to be
known as

WINTER'S KEROSENE BOND

-to be a warehouse for the reception and storage
of kerosene and other oils under bond.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
sixth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two.

JOHN HALL,
Commissioner of Customs.

Commissioner's Order No. 159.]

Authority to frank.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 1st March, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

THOMAS HOPE LEWIS, Esq.,

Medical Officer, Rotorua, County of Tauranga, to
frank, free from prepayment of postage, letters and
parcels posted on the public service.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Postmaster-General.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 6th March, 1882.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
a Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be
opened at

STRATFORD (Chief Office, New Plymouth),

on the 16th instant,

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Sale of Pastoral Leases of Crown Lands in the Land
District of Nelson. - Preliminary Notice.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1882.

ONE hundred and seventy thousand three hundred
acres of pastoral Crown land in the Amuri
District of Nelson, divided into twenty runs, in areas
of from 3,000 to 17,000 acres, will be offered for
lease by public auction, at the Lands Office, Nelson,
early in the month of May next.

Maps of the country to be leased will be published
in the beginning of April, and further particulars
respecting the runs will appear in future advertise-
ments.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Native School Site at Te Kao.

Education Department,
Wellington, 8th March, 1882.

THE following report of the person appointed by
the Governor, under the provisions of "The
Native Schools Sites Act, 1880," to ascertain the
title of certain Natives to land at Te Kao, appro-
priated by them for the site of a school, having been
adopted by the Governor, is published in accordance
with the said Act.
THOMAS DICK.

Resident Magistrate's Office,
Mangonui, 21st February, 1882.

SIR, - With reference to your letter of the 4th
October, 1881, informing me that His Excellency the
Governor had, in pursuance of "The Native Schools
Sites Act, 1880," appointed me to ascertain the title
of certain Natives to land at Te Kao, near Parenga-
renga, appropriated by them for the site of a school,
I have the honor to report that, after having given
notice by advertisement published in the Auckland
Weekly News, copies of which advertisement I
forwarded to the leading chiefs throughout this
district, I visited Te Kao on the 11th instant, and,
after due inquiry, at which the whole of the leading
chiefs in the neighbourhood were present, am satisfied
as to the ownership of the land and the willingness
of the Native owners to appropriate the same for the
site of a school, in accordance with the requirements
of "The Native Schools Sites Act, 1880."

A tracing and description of the land so dealt with,
authenticated by my signature, is forwarded herewith.
I have, &c.,
GEORGE KELLY.
District Superintendent, Native Schools.
The Secretary, Education Department,
Wellington.

DESCRIPTION.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 6 acres and 19 perches, more or less,
called or known as Native School Reserve at Te Kao,
near Parengarenga, Mangonui County. Bounded
towards the North by a line, 510 links; towards the
East by a line, 1200 links; towards the South by a
line, 510 links; and towards the West by a line,
1200 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or
less.
GEO. KELLY.
21/2/1882.

Survey Office,
Auckland, 21st January, 1882.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th March, 1882.

PATENT for a Wheel-making Machine and Table-
lifting Attachment for a Jugular or Drunken
Saw.