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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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shed at Wellington to be the place, for the first meeting of
the contributors to the Wellington Hospital.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(In the absence of the Premier.)

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

The ASSISTANT INSPECTOR OF POST OFFICES

to frank and receive letters and parcels, and frank telegrams,
on the public service.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Alterations and Additions to Scale of Fares and Charges
in force on New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with section 144 of “The Public Works
Act, 1882,” I, Edward Richardson, Minister for Public
Works, do hereby make the following alterations and addi-
tions to the scale of charges, to come into force from and
after the 18th January, 1886:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.

HURUNUI BLUFF SECTION.

Class H.—Wool.

Wool, undumped, from Culverden to Christchurch or
Lyttelton Stations will be charged 6d. per bale less than the
classified rates.

As witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land for the Construction of
Defence Works in the Kaiwarra Town District, Suburbs
of 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 in the Kaiwarra Town Dis-
trict, Suburbs of 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 Welling-
ton, 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.
13648, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public
Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Welling-
ton, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, this sixteenth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Minister for Public Works.)

Notice to Mariners, No. 1 of 1886.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th January, 1886.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the
Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, are
published for general information.

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

SPENCER GULF: GERMEIN BAY.—PORT PIRIE.

NOTICE is hereby given that a depth of 12 feet 6 inches water
at low water now exists from the shallows off Mount Ferguson
to the wharves at Port Pirie. The channel is marked by
light-beacons and buoys, painted red. These should be left
on the starboard hand, inwards, at a distance of 75 to 80 feet.

A black perch buoy is moored on the north side of the
channel (to denote the width of the same), opposite the
outer light-beacon. This beacon bears nearly west, magnetic,
from the summit of Mount Ferguson.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 18th December, 1885.

SPENCER GULF.—APPROACH TO PORT AUGUSTA.

NOTICE is hereby given that a tide-gauge has been erected
on the first black beacon, south of Curlew Point, to show the
depth of water in the channel leading to Port Augusta.

A perch buoy, painted red, has been placed on the edge of
a rocky projection on the east side of the channel nearly
opposite Brown Point; and three new tub-shaped buoys,
painted black, mark the west side of the new cutting to the
northward of Brown Point.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 19th December, 1885.

SPENCER GULF.—GERMEIN BAY.

IT is hereby notified that, in accordance with Notice to
Mariners, No. 11 of 1885, the recently-deepened channel
leading to Port Pirie will, on and after the 1st January, 1886,
be lighted up with five new beacon-lights. The first light,
in 14 feet at low water, lies nearly west, magnetic, from the
summit of Mount Ferguson, distant two and a quarter miles.
A tide-gauge has been placed on this beacon to show the
depth of water in the channel.

Vessels bound into Port Pirie should leave the beacons on
the starboard hand, and pass them at a distance of 90 to
100 feet.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 19th December, 1885.

Notice to Mariners, No. 2 of 1886.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 26th January, 1886.

THE following Hydrographic Notice, received from the
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, Australian
Station, is published for general information.

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

THE following is issued for general information and guid-
ance.

G. TRYON,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

“Nelson,” at Wellington,
20th January, 1886.

HYDROGRAPHIC INFORMATION WITH REFERENCE TO THE
VICINITY OF PORT MORESBY (NEW GUINEA).

H.M.S. “Lark,” November, 1885.

ALL bearings are magnetic.

Fairfax Harbour.—The depth of water in Fairfax Harbour
is, generally speaking, 1 fathom less than is marked on
the chart.

Port Moresby.—There is a patch having only 1½ fathoms at
low water in close proximity to the anchor placed on the
chart with the notification “Best anchorage for large vessels.”
This patch is 9½ cables from Paga Point, and lies just inshore
of the line joining that point and Ethel Island.

Vessels will find anchorage to the southward, in 7 fathoms,
between this patch and the coal-shed under Paga Hill; but
to the northward should not pass to the eastward of a line
joining the patch and the east point of Jane Island.

The northern portion of the reef marked “Dry at low
water” is only 6 cables N. by W. ½ W. from Paga Point,
not 8 cables as drawn on the chart.

Reef.—Four cables S.E. from Paga Point is the west
extreme of a reef which extends 6 cables in an easterly
direction. It is uncovered in places at low-water springs.

Pyramid Point.—There is a 2-fathom patch 5 cables S.W.
½ W., and another of 1½ fathoms three miles S.E. by E. ½ E.
from this point. Vessels are recommended to keep outside
the line joining Pyramid and Tupuselei Points.

Lily Island.—There is a patch of 1½ fathoms S. ¾ W. one-
and a half miles from the eastern point of this island, and
several others of 2 to 2½ fathoms. The passage inside the