JAN. 24.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 79

ISLAND OF AMBRYM, NEW HEBRIDES.
(Hydrographic Notice No. 28.)
3rd January, 1889.
H.M.S. "Orlando," at Auckland,

THE following information received from Captain Bosanquet,
H.M.S. "Opal," is hereby promulgated:----
Shoal water was observed about one and a half miles to
the southward of the Island of Ambrym, New Hebrides, and
two miles to the westward of the reef marked on the chart.
According to information received from an English trader,
there are only 2 fathoms of water on the shoal, which did
not exist previous to a violent eruption of the volcano of
Ambrym a few months ago.
No bottom was obtained at a distance of about two cables
from the shoal, which could not be examined as there was
no time available.
A reef is said to extend one and a half miles in a north-
easterly direction from the next point to the north-east of
Dip Point.
Charts, &c., affected: 1880, New Caledonia, New Hebrides,
and Loyalty Island; Pacific Islands, Sailing Directions,
Vol. i., pages 20 and 21.

H. FAIRFAX,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

Notice to Mariners, No. 3 of 1889.
Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th January, 1889.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Marine Board, Hobart, Tasmania, is published for
general information.

GEO. FISHER,
(For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.)

EXHIBITION OF FLASHING LIGHT ON EDDYSTONE POINT,
EAST COAST, TASMANIA.
WITH reference to the preliminary notice issued by this
Board, dated the 7th March, 1888, it is hereby notified that,
on and after the 1st May, 1889, from sunset to sunrise a light
will be exhibited from the lighthouse which has been erected
on Eddystone Point, the position and characteristics of which
are as follows:--
The Eddystone Lighthouse is situated in latitude 40° 50′ 40″
S., longitude 148° 20′ 50″ E. (approximate). The light will be
142ft. above the mean sea-level, and the bright part of it will
be visible in clear weather, at the height of 10ft., seventeen
and a half miles.
It is a first order dioptric flashing light, showing every
half-minute bright triple flashes from N. 22° W. (which will
clear the rocks off St. Helen's Point one mile) round easterly
to S. 3º W., which will clear the Salamander Rock one mile,
and red sectors will show from S. 3º W. to S. 48° E. (covering
the Salamander Rock, Eucalyptus Rock, and other dangers
in that vicinity), and from N. 22° W. round S. to N. 14° E.
A red subsidiary light, placed 60ft. to the eastward of
the tower, will also be exhibited at the same time, with a
radius of two and a half miles, at a height of 15ft. above the
mean sea-level. This will clear the Victoria Rocks one and
a half miles.

Marine Board Office, Hobart,
7th January, 1889.

A. G. WEBSTER,
Master Warden.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1888.
IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1890, the period of litera-
ture will be the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, and
the special books will be Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice,
and Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield.

GEO. FISHER.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road to Hikutaia
Station, on the Grahamstown-Te Aroha Railway.
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the pro-
visions of "The Public Works Act, 1882," to exe-
cute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of
a road to Hikutaia Station, on the Grahamstown-Te Aroha
Railway, and for the purposes of such public work the
land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be
taken; and notice is further given that the plan of the
said road and of the land so required to be taken is de-
posited in the Post Office at Hikutaia, and is 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 land shall, if they have any well-grounded
objections to the execution of the said public work or to the
taking of such land, 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 parcel of land mentioned hereunder :--

In the Provincial District of Auckland; as the said parcel
of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 16031, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured burnt sienna.
As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road to Hindon
Station, Otago Central Railway.
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the pro-
visions of "The Public Works Act, 1882," to execute a
certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in the
County of Taieri, and for the purposes of such public work
the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to
be taken; and notice is further given that the plans of the
said road and of the lands so required to be taken are
deposited in the Post Office, Hindon, 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 Otago; as the said parcels of
land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 15897, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured red, blue, and yellow.
As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-eight.

T. W. HISLOP,
(For the Minister for Public Works.)

Reward of £10,000 offered for the Discovery of New Gold
fields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1888.
REWARDS of £10,000 are offered for for the discovery of new
goldfields, upon the amended conditions set forth
hereunder.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
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 condi-
   tions is £5,000 for the North Island, and £5,000 for the
   Middle Island.
2. The newly-discovered goldfield must be situated not
   less than forty miles from any existing goldfield or any
   existing workings.