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off the north-east point of Penrhyn Island, in about lat. 9° 3' S.
and long. 157° 50' W., and that it extends about five miles
off that point right in the track of vessels coming from Cali-
fornia or British Columbia. For the first two miles from the
point the sea breaks heavily over the reef; then there is
a channel about one and a half miles wide, in which no
bottom was found at 25 fathoms, and outside the channel
there is a rocky patch of about two or three cables in extent,
on which the sea breaks heavily in patches.

Note.—Probably this is the dangerous reef reported to
exist about four miles off the east side of the island. Sailing
directions, South Pacific, Vol. iii., page 114.

Captain Ohlson also reports that there is shoal water off
the north-west end of the island, but that the least water
found was 7 fathoms, half a mile off shore.

JOHN McKENZIE,
For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.

Notice to Mariners, No. 15 of 1891.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1891.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Marine Board of New South Wales, is published for
general information.

JOHN McKENZIE,
For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.

SMOKY CAPE LIGHTHOUSE.

REFERRING to the Gazette notice of the 12th November, 1889,
it is now notified, for general information, that on and after
the night of Wednesday, the 15th instant, a first order triple-
flashing dioptric white light will be shown from the tower
which has been erected on Smoky Cape, at an elevation of
420ft., in lat. 30° 56' S. and long. 153° 6' E.

This light will exhibit the following characteristics every
half-minute, viz.: Flash two seconds, eclipse two seconds,
flash two seconds, eclipse two seconds, flash two seconds,
eclipse twenty seconds, and will be visible all round from
seaward about thirty miles in ordinary weather.

By order.
GEO. S. LINDEMAN, R.N.,
Secretary.
Office of the Marine Board of New South Wales,
Sydney, 3rd April, 1891.

Geological Survey Department.

Colonial Laboratory,
Wellington, 20th April, 1891.

BY direction of the Hon. the Minister of Mines the
following scale of fees will be charged for such
analyses performed in the Colonial Laboratory, for private
persons and public departments, as are required in relation
to commercial contracts. All such analyses as will assist in
developing the natural resources of the colony, or add to
knowledge that is of general and useful application, will be
reported FREE of charge, such reports being published for
general information:—

£ s. d.
Qualitative analysis and simple determination .. 0 5 0
Coal .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 10 6
Minerals: Rocks and ores .. .. .. Free.
Waters: Sanitary analysis .. .. .. 0 10 6
Bread or flour .. .. .. .. 0 10 6
Milk .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 5 0
Butter .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 5 0
Tea, coffee, and cocoa .. .. .. 0 10 6
Wine, beer, and spirits, for alcohol .. 0 10 6
Wine, beer, and spirits, complete .. 1 1 0
Medical analysis: General and microscopic .. 1 1 0
Medical analysis: Complete .. .. 3 3 0
Drugs, chemicals, &c. .. .. .. 1 1 0
Poisons: Detection of mineral poison .. 1 1 0
Poisons: Detection of alkaloids and vegetable
poisons .. .. .. .. 2 2 0
Complete determination of poisons in organic mix-
tures .. .. .. .. 5 5 0
Soils and subsoils .. .. .. .. Free.
Sheep-dips, artificial manures, guano, and food-
stuffs .. .. .. .. .. 0 10 6
Miscellaneous, according to scale.

JAMES HECTOR,
Director.

Rainfall for March, 1891.

Meteorological Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1891.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of March
1891:—

Stations:
Pakaraka (Bay of Islands)
Auckland
Cuvier Island
Omokoroa (Tauranga)
Te Aroha
Rotorua
Gisborne
Mahia Peninsula
Matahiia (Gisborne)
Papatu Station (Poverty Bay)
Waipiro
Napier
Onepoto
Waimarama, H.B.
Mt. Vernon, H.B.
Gwavas, H.B.
New Plymouth
Inglewood
Ngatimaru
Opunaki
Manai'a
Kaponga
Hawera (Waipapa)
Wanganui
Feilding
Palmerston North
Ashurst
Manawatu Gorge
Masterton
Otahuaoo
Carterton
Featherston
Dry River (near Martinborough)
Summit
Upper Hutt
Taita
Petone
Wellington
Wainuiomata
Wellington Reservoir
Flaxbourne
Cape Campbell
Kaikoura
The Brothers
Farewell Spit
Lincoln
Rangiora
Hororata
Kapunatiki
Methven
Winchmore (Ashburton)
Dunedin
Greymouth
Milford Sound
Baleclutha
Bealey
Maheno (Otago)
Dipton
Invercargill
Puysegur Point
Queenstown
Chatham Islands

J. HECTOR, Director.