Sept. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1041

Dated at Wellington, this sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.
J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situate at Te Oreore, in the District of Wairarapa, known by the name of “Okurupatu,” containing 5,600 acres, more or less, except thereout the portion of the said block lying to the south side of the main road from Masterton to the Upper Taueru, and excepting also all that piece of the said block, containing 20 acres, marked off for the use of the lessors.

Notice to Mariners, No. 32 of 1885.

EAST CAPE ISLET, NORTH ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd September, 1885.

OWING to several casualties to vessels having occurred in the vicinity of East Cape, the attention of masters of vessels is specially called to the under-mentioned directions in “The New Zealand Pilot,” viz. :—

“There is a channel nearly one mile wide between the cape and the islet, but, as the winds here are liable to die away suddenly, leaving a vessel at the mercy of the tides and swell, it cannot be recommended. There are several shoal patches off East Cape, which, together with the strong tides, make the passage between the cape and the islet not a desirable one. A shoal patch, with 3¼ fathoms water on it, on which the sea would break in heavy weather, lies off the north-east point of the cape, about two-thirds of a mile: this is the line of breakers reported by H.M.S. ‘Eclipse’ in 1864. There is another patch, nearly a mile S.E. ⅔ S. of the former, with 2½ fathoms water on it, at the entrance to the passage between East Cape and the islet.”

Masters are advised to avoid the passage between the islet and the mainland as unsafe.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

Notice to Mariners, No. 33 of 1885.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th September, 1885.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Hydrographer to the United States Hydrographic Office, and the Portmaster, Brisbane, are published for general information.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

“SOUTH AMERICA PILOT,” PART II., SUPPLEMENT, 1885.
Notice No. 2.

MAGELLAN STRAITS: SANDY POINT LIGHTS.—Sandy Point Road is lighted by—

1. A fixed white light, elevated 26 feet above the sea, and visible ten miles, at the end of the new pier.
2. A fixed white light, elevated 78 feet above the sea, and visible three miles, on the blockhouse.
3. A fixed red light, elevated 68 feet above the sea, and visible three miles, showing from a position to seaward of the blockhouse. These two lights in line lead a quarter mile eastward of the wreck of the “Dotorel.”

By order of the Bureau of Navigation.
J. R. BARTLETT,
Commander, U.S.N., Hydrographer.
Washington, D. C., 17th July, 1885.

SUNKEN REEF OFF ACHERON ISLAND, HALIFAX BAY.
Notice is hereby given that a sunken reef extends W.S.W. to a distance of one-third of a mile from the west end of Acheron Island.

G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 11th August, 1885.

GUADALCANAR, SOLOMON ISLANDS.—SUNKEN ROCK IN POPAU HARBOUR.
Notice is hereby given that a rock, upon which there is a depth of 9 feet at low water, is reported by Mr. Robertson, master of the “Flora,” to lie 6⅔ cables N. by E. ½ E. from the south-west point of Popau Harbour.

Vessels entering the harbour, which affords facilities for obtaining wood and water, must, with south-easterly winds, be careful to haul close up round the reef off the S.W. point, and anchor as near to the shore at the S.E. end of the bay as practicable.

G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 18th August, 1885.

Report of Court of Inquiry into Stranding of s.s. “Ino” confirmed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 7th September, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to confirm the following report of the Court of Inquiry into the stranding of the s.s. “Ino,” whereby the New Zealand Certificate of Competency as Master Ordinary, No. 312, held by James Anderson, the mate of the vessel, is suspended for two months from the 25th August, 1885. The casualty occurred at Waikawa Bay on the 18th July last.

W. J. M. LARNACH.

1. THAT the mate, James Anderson, who holds a certificate of competency, issued at Wellington, New Zealand, and numbered 312, was ignorant of the vessel’s position long previous to the vessel stranding.

2. That he showed ignorance of, or a neglect of due consideration of, the action of the tide on the vessel when he altered the course from west-south-west to west by north.

3. That he neglected the ordinary precaution of examining the compass from time to time to ascertain whether the vessel was steered the course he gave to the helmsman; and when the fog came on, and he ordered the course to be changed, to keep the vessel off the land and thus out of danger, from west by north to west-south-west, he was especially negligent in not looking at the compass to see whether the new course was made and kept,

4. The evidence leaves no doubt in our minds that the course last given was not kept, and this was the direct cause of the vessel being stranded. If the mate had observed the common precaution of checking the vessel’s steering, it is doubtless she would have kept out of the danger she was actually steered into.

5. The evidence shows that the vessel’s reckoning was kept by the master in a very unskilled and careless manner, that is, by observation of the land when practicable, and the estimated speed of the engines when not so. No log was used to ascertain the distance run, and no chart appears to have been consulted when the mate found himself uncertain of the vessel’s position, and no lead was used when the fog set in.

This appears to have been the ordinary manner of navigating the vessel, and, although not the direct cause of the vessel stranding, careless navigation by the master would tend to careless navigation by those under him. We are of opinion that the master, Peter Andrew Lyders, is deserving of censure for not navigating his vessel with more care.

The certificate of the mate, James Anderson, to whose negligence and careless performance of his duties the stranding of the vessel is directly attributable, is suspended for two calendar months.

Given under my hand this twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, at Dunedin, New Zealand.

E. H. CAREW,
Resident Magistrate.

I concur in the above report.

Wm. THOMSON,
Nautical Assessor.

Notice to Owners of Native Land under “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882.”

“TE Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” me te Ture Whakatikatika i taua Ture.

Ki te tangata nana, ki nga tangata ranei na ratou nga whenua kua whakahuatia i roto i nga rooru whakaatu i nga utu o nga whenua Maori, kua tukua atu nei ki nga poari takiwa e mau nei nga ingoa i roto i te Kupu Apiti ki tenei, i raro i nga tikanga o nga Ture kua whakahuatia i runga ake nei me era atu Ture katoa e pa ana e whai tikanga ana.

NOTEMEA kua tukua mai he tono ki ahau Te Minita Whakahaere i nga Moni o Niu Tirenī, e mau nei toku ingoa i raro iho nei, e nga poari takiwa e tetahi tangata ranei mo te taha ki a ratou, i raro i nga tikanga o “Te Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” kia utua nga reiti e meingatia ana kia utua i runga i nga tikanga o aua rooru :

He panuitanga tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata o koutou, kia mohio ai koutou kua takoto nga rooru o nga whenua Maori ki nga tari o aua poari takiwa ko aua rooru he mea tuhi ki te reo Maori, a e whakaatu ana hoki i nga utu o nga whenua Maori kua whakahuatia i runga i aua rooru.

Na he tono tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata hoki o koutou nga tangata na ratou aua whenua kia utua e koutou aua reiti a te 12 o nga ra o Hepetema, 1885, i mua mai ranei o taua ra, me utu e koutou aua moni reiti i te tari o te poari o te takiwa i takoto ai aua whenua, tena te whakaatu-ranga kei te Kupu Apiti.