APRIL 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 533

No. 2. “An Act to incorporate the Congregational Union of New Zealand.”

No. 3. “An Act to validate an Expenditure of certain Moneys on Buildings by the Corporation of Christ’s College, Canterbury, and to enable the said Corporation to expend Further Sums in Buildings for the Use of the College, and for better defining the Trusts and Purposes upon which certain Lands are held in connection with the said College.”

No. 4. “An Act to enable the Napier Gas Company (Limited) to supply the Town of Hastings and the surrounding Districts with Gas.”

I have, &c.,
GRANVILLE.

Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B., &c.

Despatch.—Marshall, Brown, and Providence Islands placed under German Protection.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1886.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(New Zealand, No. 15.)
Downing Street, 20th February, 1886.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Government, a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, enclosing a translation of a note from the German Ambassador at this Court, notifying officially to Her Majesty’s Government that the Marshall, Brown, and Providence Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, have been placed under the protection of the German flag.

I have, &c.,
GRANVILLE.

Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B.

The Foreign Office to the Colonial Office.

Foreign Office, 8th February, 1886.

SIR,—I am directed by the Earl of Rosebery to transmit to you herewith, to be laid before Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, a translation of a note from the German Ambassador at this Court, notifying officially to Her Majesty’s Government that the Marshall, Brown, and Providence Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, have been placed under the protection of the German flag.

I have, &c.,
J. PAUNCEFOTE.

The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

[Translation.]
4th February, 1886.

THE undersigned has been instructed to notify officially to Her Majesty’s Government that the groups of the Marshall, Brown, and Providence Islands have been placed under the protection of His Majesty the Emperor, by virtue of treaties concluded with the native chiefs, due regard being had to justly-acquired rights of third parties, and that, as a sign of possession, the German flag has been hoisted there.

In now carrying out these instructions the undersigned avails himself, &c.

V. HATZFELDT.

The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., &c.

Notice to Mariners, No. 11 of 1886.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 21st April, 1886.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine Board, Hobart, Tasmania, is published for general information.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Minister having Charge of the Marine Department.)

Marine Board, Hobart, 27th March, 1886.

SIR,—I have the honour to report that on the 17th February, 1886, the steamship “Waihora,” from this port, and bound to Melbourne, struck on a sunken rock off Eddystone Point. This rock the master of the “Waihora” reports as not being marked on the chart; and, as it is in the track of vessels passing through Banks Straits, I would respectfully recommend that a notice be issued warning mariners of this supposed danger.

I have, &c.,
JAMES RIDDLE,
Harbourmaster.

The Master Warden, Marine Board, Hobart,

NOTICE TO MARINERS.—A SUNKEN ROCK OFF EDDYSTONE POINT.

CAPTAIN McGEE, of the Union Company’s steamship “Waihora,” reports striking a sunken rock (not shown on the chart) in the following position: Eddystone Rock, S.W. ½ W. (magnetic); George’s Rock, N.W. by W. (magnetic).

The rock is alleged to be about 14 feet under water, and is in the track of vessels from the southward passing through Banks Straits.

JAMES RIDDLE,
Marine Board Offices,
Hobart, 30th March, 1886.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Defence Works at Watts Peninsula, Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and “The Public Works Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1885,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of works for the purpose of defence at Watts Peninsula, near Wellington, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plans of the said works and of the lands so required to be taken are deposited in the Public Works Office at Wellington, and are there open for inspection: And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13746, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon edged pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of March, 1886.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Kirimangu and Te Amo te Kehu, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Uru te Angina and Aromona te Whio, as Trustees under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said lands may be leased by the said Trustees for twenty-one years from the 10th February, 1886.

Dated at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situated in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing by admeasurement sixty-one and one-half acres, more or less, being that part of the section numbered 80 on the plan of the Waitotara District which lies to the north of the main road from Whanganui to Waitotara, running through the said section. Bounded towards the North by the Koheroa Stream; towards the East by Section No. 79; towards the South by the said main road; and towards the North-west by the Waitotara River.