MAY 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 651

CAUTION.—ELECTRIC LIGHTS.

At the present juncture the Defence Department may at any time exhibit one or more electric lights from the vicinities of Queenscliff and Point Nepean. Such lights will be at least 60 feet below any of the present lights, and must not be taken as guiding lights, as they will be dangerously misleading for navigating purposes, their object being a means of guarding the entrance to Port Phillip.

G. D. LANGRIDGE,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Report of Court of Inquiry into Wreck of s.s. “Thomas Russell” confirmed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 15th May, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of the provisions of section 44 of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” to confirm the following report of the Court of Inquiry into the wreck of the s.s. “Thomas Russell,” by which the New Zealand Certificate of Competency as master ordinary, No. 33, held by Charles Frederick Helander, is suspended for six months from the 17th ultimo.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

THAT the loss was caused by the master’s default. I consider that he ought, when coming on deck, underway as he believed between Cape Runaway and the anchorage under Oreti Point, to have ascertained his exact position before putting the ship full speed ahead. He must at that time, in my opinion, have been much nearer Oreti Point than he supposed. His true position could have been determined by the lead, and the ship might have been stopped to enable him to take a cast. When the man at the lead reported 9½ fathoms the master ought to have anchored. The ship at that moment must have been close to the rocks, but the master seems to have trusted implicitly to the soundings reported by Thompson, and in so doing failed to take necessary precautions for the safety of his ship, especially when everything depended upon the accuracy almost of a single cast. On this point I accept as substantially correct the master’s evidence, and place no reliance upon that of Thompson. I have suspended the master’s certificate for six months and ordered him to pay the cost of this inquiry.

Given under my hand this seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, at Auckland, New Zealand.

H. G. SETH SMITH,
Resident Magistrate.

I concur in the above report.

W. FRAZER,
Nautical Assessor.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1885.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

WELLINGTON-NAPIER RAILWAY (NAPIER-WOODVILLE SECTION).—TAMAKI CONTRACT.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Mullinger and Brett, Auckland .. .. 35,550 0 0

Declined.
Carr and Campbell, Napier .. .. 38,752 1 4
H. McKenzie and Co., Woodville .. .. 39,995 18 0
Alexander and McFarlane, Wanganui .. .. 41,955 19 1
D. Glendinning, Napier .. .. 43,000 0 0
Cameron and O’Brien, Auckland .. .. 43,687 0 0
Martin and Edgar, Auckland .. .. 44,096 9 0
Larkins and O’Brien, Auckland .. .. 47,733 1 9
Martin Danaher, Wellington .. .. 48,573 0 0
W. G. Bassett, Wanganui .. .. 51,307 0 0

FOXTON-NEW PLYMOUTH RAILWAY.—MOTUROA CONTRACT (FORMATION AND PERMANENT-WAY).

Accepted.
£ s. d.
G. J. Newman, New Plymouth .. .. 8,990 0 0

Declined.
James C. George, New Plymouth .. .. 9,315 13 4
Murphy and Carmody, Wanganui .. .. 10,252 8 1
Larkins and O’Brien, Auckland .. .. 11,793 11 3
J. J. O’Brien, Auckland .. .. 12,199 0 0
Adam Wilkie, Wanganui .. .. 12,332 5 0
Mace and Bassett, New Plymouth .. .. 13,799 0 0
Parsons and Spence, New Plymouth .. .. 14,691 9 0
D. Scally and J. O’Connor, Wanganui .. .. 16,046 18 0
W. G. Bassett, Wanganui .. .. 17,345 10 0

Levée in Honour of Her Majesty’s Birthday.

Government House,
Wellington, 19th May, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor will hold a full-dress Levée at Government House, on Monday, the 25th May, at 11 a.m., in honour of Her Majesty’s Birthday. Gentlemen attending the Levée will wear uniform or evening dress, and are requested to bring with them two visiting-cards, their names legibly written or printed thereon; one card to be left at the entrance hall, and the other to be given to the Aide-de-Camp.

By His Excellency’s command.

CHARLES V. ECCLES,
Major, A.D.C.

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

IN compliance with the provisions of the 61st section of “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1881,” I hereby notify that

HORI KEREI TAIAROA, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives for the Southern Maori Electoral District, and that his telegram of resignation was received by me on the 11th day of May, 1885, and that the said seat is vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Penrose, the 11th day of May, 1885.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE, Kr.,
Speaker.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1885.

PATENT for Improvements in Weighing Machines.

PERCIVAL EVERITT, of London, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 30th day of July next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 15th day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1436.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1885.

PATENT for Improvements in Gas Lamps and Burners.

FRANCIS HERBERT WENHAM, of 238, Goldhawk Road, Shepherd’s Bush, in the County of Middlesex; England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 30th day of July next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 15th day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1437.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1885.

PATENT for the “Eclipse” Broadcast Seed-sowing Machine.

HENRY REYNOLDS, of Woodlands, Waikato, Auckland, Farmer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 30th day of July next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 15th day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1438.

Officiating Ministers for 1885.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th May, 1885.

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