Nov. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1607

Notice to Mariners, No. 45 of 1883.

PORT OF WAITARA.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th October, 1883.

THE Waitara Harbour Board has given notice that, on and after the night of the 1st January, 1884, the following light and night signals will be shown:—

HARBOUR LIGHT.

Fixed white light on flagstaff, 70 feet above sea-level, erected on south side of entrance to river; shown from sunset to sunrise.

NIGHT SIGNALS FROM SHORE.

“Wait till Daylight.”—Red light on beacon erected seaward of the flagstaff; shown from sunset to sunrise when the bar is practicable.

“Bar dangerous.”—Green light, in lieu of red, on the beacon seaward of flagstaff; shown when the bar is unsafe to cross.

“Keep to Sea,” or “Put to Sea.”—Two white lights (one of which is the harbour light) horizontal on flagstaff, with a green light between them; to be used for ships at anchor or approaching.

“Take the Bar.”—A red and a green light on separate set of inner beacons, the green light seaward. These two lights, however, will only be shown when the tide serves; whilst the light on beacon seaward of flagstaff denotes whether the bar is safe.

NIGHT SIGNALS FROM SHIPS.

“Will wait till Daylight.”—Two lights vertical: upper, white; lower, red.

“Cannot wait.”—Two lights vertical: upper, red; lower, white.

“Cannot keep,” or “Put to Sea.”—Two white lights horizontal, with a green light between them.

In all cases of beacon lights on shore, of whatever colour, the lights will be so arranged as to serve for leading lights; the beacons being shifted in accordance with the shifting of the channel. Masters of vessels must, however, in all cases use their own judgment as to whether they will come in or not.

Vessels crossing the bar inwards at night must be careful to keep the flagstaff and the seaward beacon light in line until the red and the green lights on the inner set of beacons are in one, when the course must be altered promptly in that direction; the vessel will then be inside of the bar, when the master must be guided by the banks of the river.

The signal “Bar dangerous” means either that the bar is rough, a strong fresh running out, or that there is not sufficient water on the bar.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Notice to Mariners, No. 46 of 1883.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th November, 1883.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Secretary for Harbours and Navigation, Melbourne, is published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

HOBSON’S BAY.

Caution.—Torpedo Practice.

MASTERS of vessels, boatmen, and others are hereby informed that lines of electric cables and experimental mines have been laid in Hobson’s Bay, in close proximity to the Breakwater Pier, Williamstown, and within bearings from the outer end of the said pier to the Gellibrand Point Lightship, and from the said lightship to the old Gellibrand Lighthouse.

Mariners, and more particularly boatmen, are hereby warned not to anchor within the above-mentioned bearings, or to interfere in any way with the buoys, mines, moorings, or electric cables.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Engineer in Charge of Ports and Harbours.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 4th October, 1883.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

The TRAFFIC CLERK of the RAILWAY DEPARTMENT at NEW PLYMOUTH

to frank, free from the prepayment of postage, letters and parcels posted on the public service on the business of the Railway Department.

RICHARD OLIVER,
Postmaster-General.

Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th September, 1883.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £6,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 31st January, 1884, and no claim will be considered that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, before the 22nd January, 1884.

Every public library maintained by rates will be entitled to share in the distribution according to its income from rates; and every library maintained by subscriptions and voluntary contributions will be entitled to share according to its income from subscriptions and voluntary contributions: Provided in either case that the income for the year has not been less than £2; and that admission to the library, if within a borough, is open to the public free of charge.

The income of each library may be stated either for the year ending 31st December, 1883, or for the year ending with that day in the year 1883 on which the annual accounts of the library were made up.

The distribution will not be in proportion to the several incomes of the libraries; but a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each income, and the vote of £6,000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented, but so as that no institution shall receive more than £50, and that no payment shall be made in respect of income derived from endowments or grants from Borough or County Councils, or of moneys received for building purposes and not simply for the library itself.

Application to share in the distribution must be made in the form of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made; and such declaration shall be in the following form:—

DECLARATION.

I [Name], of [Place of abode], [Occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary, or Treasurer] of the [Name of institution]; that during the year ending the day of , 1883, the income of the aforesaid institution for the purposes of a library only was as follows: From rates levied by a local governing body under “The Public Libraries Act, 1869,” pounds shillings and pence; and from the subscriptions of members, pounds shillings and pence; and from voluntary contributions other than members’ subscriptions, pounds shillings and pence; and that the attached statement is a true copy of the audited statement of the accounts of the institution for the year herein specified; and that by the rules of the institution admission to the reading-room is open to the public free of charge.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

Signature:

[Here affix and cancel a stamp at 2s. 6d.] Declared at , this day of , 188 , before me—

Justice of the Peace
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

[NOTE.—The words relating to free admission may be struck out if the library is not in a borough. The words in brackets are not part of the form, but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

Copies of the form of statutory declaration may be obtained on application to the Secretary for Education, Wellington, or to the Secretary of any Education Board.

THOMAS DICK.

Officiating Ministers for 1883.—Notice No. 25.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1883.

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 Robert Twiddy Batchelor.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Henry Bowers.
The Reverend Thomas Walshe.

Baptists.

The Reverend Thomas Harrington.

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