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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Comboyuro Point Light is opened out, which will be the last
of the three, a vessel will haul to the westward, pass the
floating beacon, and bring the Tangaluma and Cowan Cowan
Lights in line. They will then keep in that position until
the Yellow Patch Light is obscured, when they will open
the leading lights slightly to the westward to clear the spit
extending south-westward from the Venus Bank, and carry
that line until past Comboyuro Point, when the usual direc-
tions will be followed.

Vessels from the northward will steer for the Yellow Patch
Light, being careful not to get within the north-east edge of
the red sector until they have reached the eastern edge of
the sector of Tangaluma Light. When on the eastern edge
of the Tangaluma Light they will enter the red sector and
steer along its south-western edge as usual until Comboyuro
Light opens out, when the two leading lights can be at once
brought into line as previously directed.

Vessels are cautioned that the line of Cowan Cowan and
Tangaluma Lights does not lead clear of the eastern edge of
the North Banks.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 15th January, 1885.

Report of Court of Inquiry into stranding of s.s. "Wallace"
confirmed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to con-
firm the following report of the Court of Inquiry into
the stranding of the s.s. "Wallace" on the Beef Barrels,
Tasman Bay, on the 17th January, 1885, while on a voyage
from Nelson to Wellington, by which the New Zealand
certificate of competency as master of a home-trade pas-
senger ship, No. 5280, held by the chief officer, William
Travers Paul, who was in charge of the vessel at the time of
the casualty, is suspended for three months.

Jos. A. TOLE,

(for the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

THAT the loss or damage appears by the evidence to have
been caused by the want of vigilance on the part of the chief
officer, William Travers Paul.

That no other person than the above-named William
Travers Paul was in any way to blame for the accident, and
this Court adjudges that his certificate, subject to the ap-
proval and assent of the Governor, be suspended for three
months.

Given under my hand, this nineteenth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, at
Nelson, New Zealand.

OSWALD CURTIS,
Resident Magistrate.

I concur in the above report.

W. KING,
Nautical Assessor.

Native School Site at Wai-o-matatini.

Education Department,
Wellington, 4th February, 1885.

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 Wai-o-matatini, in the County of Cook, appropriated
by them for the site of a school, having been adopted by the
Governor, is published in accordance with the said Act.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

REPORT UNDER "THE NATIVE SCHOOL SITES ACT, 1880."

His Excellency the Governor having been pleased, in pur-
suance of the above-recited Act, to appoint me to ascertain
the title of certain Natives to land known as Te Herenga, at
Wai-o-matatini, Waiapu District, proposed to be appro-
priated by them as a school site for that district, I beg leave
respectfully to report:-

1. I caused notice both in the English and Maori lan-
   guages to be inserted in the Poverty Bay Herald and in the
   Telephone that I would hold an inquiry at Wai-o-matatini
   on Thursday, the 15th day of January, 1885. I also sent the
   papers containing the notice in English and Maori to all the
   principal Natives in the Waiapu District.

2. On Thursday, the said 15th day of January, I held an
   inquiry at the place before mentioned, at which representa-
   tives of the Ngatihorowai Hapu of the Ngatiporou Tribe
   were present; the plan of the land proposed to be given for
   a school site was produced, and the provisions of the Act were
   explained by me.

3. The Natives unanimously agreed that the land shown
   on the plan produced as aforesaid was a portion of Te
   Herenga Block, and that such portion belonged to Pine

Tuhaka, Te Harawira Tu, Rihara Paipa, and Pirika te Hau;
and the said Pine Tuhaka, Te Hirawira Tu, Rihara Paipa,
and Pirika te Hau thereupon, in the presence of the hapu
aforesaid, declared their consent to the appropriation of
such land as a school site for the Wai-o-matatini Native
school in and for the district before mentioned, in accordance
with the above-recited Act.

Description of Land referred to.

All that parcel of land in the County of Cook, containing
by admeasurement 4 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less,
situated in Block X., Waiapu Survey District. Bounded
towards the North-east by a right line bearing 94° 24', 576
links; towards the South-east by a right line bearing 191°
58', 939.8 links; towards the South-west by a right line
bearing 300° 50', 700 links; and towards the North-west by
a right line bearing 20° 6', 644 links: be all the aforesaid
linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan
in the Survey Office, Auckland.

Given under my hand, at Gisborne, this twenty-third
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

JAMES BOOTH.

Despatch.-Cadetships at Royal Military College.

Education Department,
Wellington, 4th February, 1885.

THE following enclosure in a despatch from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies is published for general information. The regulations
relating to the subject were published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 29th September, 1881.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

War Office,
Pall Mall, S.W., 10th November, 1884.

SIR,-I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th September
last, forwarding copy of a despatch from the Governor of
New Zealand, together with enclosures, relative to increased
facilities being afforded to graduates and students of the
University of that colony who may be desirous of entering
the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

In reply I have the honour to inform you that, after refer-
ence to the Civil Service Commissioners, Lord Hartington is
of opinion that the first examination for the degree of B.A.
at the above University cannot be regarded as equivalent to
the examinations mentioned in clause 2 (b) of the regula-
tions issued with General Order 116 of 1884; but there
would be no objection to the benefits of this clause being
extended to students who have passed the whole of the
examination for the B.A. degree.

I have, &c.,
RALPH THOMPSON.
The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

THOMAS McDONNELL, Esq.,
Land Purchase Officer at Wanganui, to frank letters, tele-
grams, and parcels on the public service.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, 1885.

PRIZE ESSAYS.

Wellington, 29th December, 1884.

ONE gold medal and twenty guineas, one silver medal
and ten guineas, and one bronze medal and five
guineas will be awarded for essays on the present condition
and future prospects of the industrial resources of New
Zealand, and the best means for fostering their development.

In judging of the merits of the essays preference will be
given to those which are of a practical character, rather than
to mere abstract or theoretical disquisitions. The essays
must be sent in to the Secretary of the Exhibition, signed
with a motto and accompanied by a sealed envelope con-
taining the author's name and address, on or before the 1st
day of December, 1885. This late date is fixed to enable
the essayists, if they desire to do so, to utilize the informa-
tion which the Exhibition itself will supply.

The essays will be submitted to a Board of three persons,
to be hereafter appointed, on whose decision respecting the
merits of the essays the above prizes will be awarded; pro-
vided the essays reach a sufficiently-deserving standard of
excellence.

JULIUS VOGEL.