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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Notice to Mariners.—No. 2 of 1883.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th March, 1883.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON.

SPENCER GULF, GERMEIN BAY.
(Bearings all magnetic. Approximate lat. 33° 3′ 45″ S., long. 137° 52′ E.)

NOTICE is hereby given that, on and after the night of the 1st March, 1883, a lightship showing a fixed white light, visible in clear weather for about seven to eight miles, will be moored in mid-channel leading to Germein Bay anchorage, on the following bearings from the lightship: Ward Spit Beacon, N.W. by W. ¼ W.; North End Eastern Shoal Beacon, S.W. by W. ¾ W.; North Side Cockle Spit Beacon, E. ¾ N.

For ships from the southward and passing to the westward of eastern shoal, bound to Germein Bay anchorage, bring the light to bear E. by N.; steer on this course for the light-vessel, passing at a reasonable distance. The same course will lead into the anchorage.

Masters of steamships, coasters, and others well acquainted with the locality may take the deep channel to the eastward of the eastern shoal, and in this case the light may be approached on a N.E. by N. bearing from the southward.

The light-vessel is painted red, with one mast, and during daylight has a red ball at the masthead.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 25th January, 1883.

Prison Officer dismissed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 15th March, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to dismiss Assistant-Warder WILLIAM HENRY WARD from the Prison Service of the colony.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Assessor under the Licensing Act elected.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th March, 1883.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hand of the Returning Officer, that

WERAHIKO PERA

has been duly elected to be the Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Omataroa.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Acting Under-Secretary.

Notification of Resignation of Seat in the House of Representatives for Electoral District of Inangahua.

IN compliance with the provisions of the sixty-first section of “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1881,” I hereby notify that

THOMAS SHAILER WESTON, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Inangahua, and that his letter of resignation was received by me on the 17th day of March, 1883, and that the said seat is vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Wellington, the 17th day of March, 1883.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE,
Speaker.

Abstract of Accounts of the Queenstown Cemetery, County of Lake.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1883.

THE following abstract of the accounts of the Queenstown Cemetery is published in accordance with “The Otago Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance, 1864.”

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

BALANCE-SHEET of the QUEENSTOWN CEMETERY TRUST, for the Year ending 31st December, 1882.

RECEIPTS.
£ s. d.
1882.
1 Jan. To Balance in Bank of New Zealand … 21 17 11
1 Jan. } Land sold for graves … … 21 0 0
to Reopening graves … … 4 4 0
31 Dec. } Interment and registration fees … 8 3 0
4 Sept. C. E. Price, rent of unused ground … 5 0 0
5 Oct. ” ” ” … 5 0 0
£65 4 11

EXPENDITURE.
£ s. d.
1881.
10 Jan. By Salary to Secretary, J. L. Evans, to 1st December, 1881… … … 2 10 0
” J. L. Evans, stamps and minute-book … 0 5 0
3 May. ” salary to 1st May … 2 10 0
Stamp for affidavit … … 0 2 6
5 May } Amount paid to sexton for interments,
to reopening graves, and attendance … 8 0 0
31 Dec.
5 May. Sexton, for repairing fence … … 0 8 0
” Haines, rope and shovel … … 0 11 0
22 Aug. R. Burrill, planting quicks … … 8 10 6
” W. Shove, planting trees … … 1 0 0
” R. Cleare, 2,000 quicks … … 1 10 0
” Freight of quicks … … 0 7 0
” J. Rowell, 1,000 quicks … … 1 0 0
” Telegram … … 0 1 0
28 Oct. Birrell, contract planting and removing trees, and lawsuit costs … … 28 19 0
15 Nov. Williams and Archer, cartage … … 1 6 0
5 Dec. J. L. Evans, salary to 1st December, 1882 … … 2 10 0
22 Dec. J. Rowell, 900 box-plants … … 1 16 0
J. L. Evans, petty cash … … 1 0 0
Balance in Bank of New Zealand … 2 18 11
£65 4 11

ASSETS.
£ s. d.
1882.
31 Dec. Due for graves … … … 3 4 0
” ” rent of unused ground … … 5 0 0
” Tools and other material … … 2 0 0
” Balance in Bank of New Zealand … 2 18 11
£13 2 11

LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
Due sexton for two graves … … 1 10 0

Dated this 28th day of February, 1883.

H. MANDERS,
D. MATHESON,
M. MALAGHAN,
} Managers.

I have examined the books, vouchers, and accounts of the above trust, and certify that this is a correct return of the said trust.

Dated at Queenstown, this 28th day of February, 1883.

S. G. DANIEL,
Auditor.

Officiating Ministers for 1883.—Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend G. W. Sharp.

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

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1883.

PATENT for an Invention entitled “Baker’s Combined Gauging, Mixing, and Compressing Concrete Machine,” for the manufacture of concrete, and for the manufacture and compression in moulds of concrete blocks, slabs, mouldings, and other shapes.