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During flood-tide a red burgee is flown from a detached pole near the flagstaff, and at night a red light is shown to the northward of the permanent white line.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 2nd March, 1886.

CUTTING THROUGH BAR AT ENTRANCE TO ENDEAVOUR RIVER, AND ALTERATION IN POSITION OF LEADING-LIGHTS.

NOTICE is hereby given that a cutting, in which there is a depth at low water of 13 feet, has been made through the bar of the Endeavour River. The line of the cutting is denoted by two triangular beacons placed on the bank abreast the township, which, when in line, lead through the centre of the channel on a S.W. southerly bearing.

On and after the 10th instant the red leading-lights for entering the port at night will be exhibited from these beacons instead of from their present positions on shore.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 2nd March, 1886.

CORAL SEA: REEF REPORTED SOUTH OF HOLMES REEFS.

NOTICE is hereby given that a reef has been reported by Mr. J. B. Robertson, master of the schooner “Flora,” as lying ten miles south of the southern extreme of Holmes Reefs, as shown on the chart, and in long. 147° 48′ east. The schooner passed some two miles south of this danger.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 8th March, 1886.

LIGHTSHIP NEAR TIMANDRA BUOY.—DISCONTINUANCE OF NORTH LIGHT, LITTLE SEA HILL, AND ALTERATION OF LIGHTS AT PILOT-STATION AND LITTLE SEA HILL, KEPPEL BAY.

ON and after 15th April a lightship, painted red, and carrying a white fixed light, visible at a distance of eleven miles, will be moored in 7 fathoms at low water, 3 cables N.E. ½ N. from the position of the Timandra Buoy, as shown on the chart.

During the flood-tide a red flag will be shown by day and a white light by night from a staff on the lantern gallery.

The northern light at Little Sea Hill and the two leading-lights at the pilot-station will be discontinued after the above date; but a light will be shown from the pilot-station, visible between the bearings of S.W. by W. ½ W. and S.W. by S., that is, between the Cottier Buoy and the Keppel Rocks.

The high light at Little Sea Hill will, after this date, show red when bearing northward of N.E. ¾ E.

The Timandra Buoy will be shifted from its present position into 3 fathoms, off the N.W. extremity of the Timandra Bank.

Directions by Night: When entering the bay from the eastward, with the Cape Capricorn leading-lights in line, and when abreast the Cottier Buoy, which will be denoted by opening the light at the pilot-station on a S.W. by W. ½ W. bearing, steer for the lightship, being careful not to bring it to the northward of a west bearing. When abreast the Keppel Rocks the light at the pilot-station will be shut out. Continue a westerly course for 3½ cables past the lightship, when the Balaclava lights will be brought into line and the usual directions may be followed.

Vessels arriving requiring pilots, whether or not they have made the usual signal when off the cape, should, if not already boarded by a pilot, make the signal for a pilot when approaching the lightship, which will be answered as follows: By a white flare-up, when the pilot will be put on board from the lightship; by two white lights vertical, when the pilot is coming off from the station, and the boat is to be looked out for; by a white light over red, when vessels are to proceed, keeping Balaclava lights in line, and to look out for the pilot on the line of lights; by a red light over white, when a pilot will be obtained at Sea Hill; by two red lights vertical, when there is no pilot available, and the vessel is to anchor, or proceed on with Balaclava lights in line for better shelter. By day the foregoing signals will be made by flags of similar colours.

Pilots may be put on board the lightship by outward-bound vessels not further requiring their services.

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

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 23rd March, 1886.

Rewards offered for the Discovery of New Goldfields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1885.

REWARDS are offered for the discovery of new goldfields, upon the conditions set forth hereunder, payable out of the parliamentary vote of £2,500.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. THE maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved discovery of a new goldfield in accordance with these conditions is £500; but, if the total sum claimed as rewards in any one year exceeds the parliamentary vote, the amount available only will be divided equally.

2. The newly-discovered goldfield, if in alluvial ground, must be situated not less than ten miles from the nearest alluvial gold-workings, or, if in quartz, not less than five miles from the nearest existing quartz-mines.

3. No grant will be paid upon any application until it shall have been proved that not less than 20,000 ounces of gold have been extracted from the new goldfield within two years from the registration of the discovery, if in alluvial workings, and, if in quartz-workings, proof of a similar yield from this source within three years from such registration will be required.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being desirous of obtaining a reward, shall immediately forward a written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to the Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within which such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or Resident Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an application for reward.

5. No prospecting is allowed upon Native land without the approval in writing of the Native Minister, or of some one appointed by him in that behalf.

Prospectors going upon Native land without the consent of the owners are liable to the penalties imposed by the Acts relating to goldfields, and will forfeit all claim to reward.

Bonus for Canned and Cured Fish for Export.

Treasury Department,
Wellington, 10th November, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that bonuses under “The Fisheries Encouragement Act, 1885,” as set forth in the following sections (Nos. 8, 9, and 10) of that Act, will be paid subject to the conditions named therein, and in the regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

JULIUS VOGEL.

8. In order to encourage the production and curing of fish for export, the Colonial Treasurer shall during the next seven years after the passing of this Act, without further appropriation by Parliament, pay out of the Consolidated Fund to any person who shall prepare canned and cured fish