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tion: Summit N.E. Cockburn Island, N. 28° W.; summit
N. Home Island, S. 64° W.; summit N. Sir Charles Hardy
Island, N. 78° E. Lat. 11° 55½' S., long. 143° 19' E.

The same officer reports that the shoal off Cape Bowling
Green is one and a half miles long, lying in a N.W. and
S.E. direction, and about one and a half cables wide. The
shoal is composed of sand, and is steep-to. The depth over
it at low-water springs is three fathoms, with from nine to
eleven fathoms close-to.

Vessels should not approach Cape Bowling Green within a
distance of five miles.

From its N.W. end Cape Bowling Green Lighthouse bears
S. 69° W., distant 3·4 miles. From its S.E. end Cape
Bowling Green Lighthouse bears S. 89° W., distant 4·2
miles.

All bearings are magnetic.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 13th January, 1892.

VICTORIA.—PORT PHILLIP BAY.—CHANGE OF BUOY, SOUTH CHANNEL.

MARINERS and others are hereby notified that on and after
Monday, the 1st February, 1892, No. 11 black buoy in the
South Channel will be replaced by a gas buoy, from which
will be exhibited a green light at an elevation of 10ft. above
the sea-level, visible in ordinary weather three nautical
miles distant.

ALEXR. WILSON,
Engineer in Charge, Ports and Harbours.
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 29th December, 1891.

VICTORIA.—NAVIGATION OF PORT PHILLIP HEADS.

THE following extract from the Australia Directory (Vol. i.,
1884, page 347) is republished, by request of the Marine
Board of Victoria, for general information.

GEORGE TURNER,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Department of Trade and Customs,
Melbourne, 30th December, 1891.

Caution.—Causes of Wreck at the Port Phillip Heads.

A careful inquiry into the casualties which have occurred
at the entrance of Port Phillip has shown that in nearly
every case they have taken place in consequence of the
vessels either attempting to enter the Heads at night with-
out a pilot or against a strong ebb stream, which, it must be
remembered, runs partly athwart the entrance with great
force, frequently at the rate of seven knots, causing a high,
confused, tumbling sea, which, in southerly or westerly
gales, often breaks from point to point. The mariner must
not suppose that because he has a fine fair wind outside the
Heads he can always force his vessel against the ebb. To
this error is attributable the loss of several vessels. The
wind, although fresh outside, frequently falls light just as
the vessel gets into the tide-ripple between the Heads, when
she becomes unmanageable; and even with a strong breeze
vessels often shear athwart the tide, which hereabouts forms
a series of strong irregular eddies.

Notice to Mariners, No. 5 of 1892.

SIGNALS FROM DREDGE, GREYMOUTH.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd February, 1892.

THE following Notice to Mariners, relative to signals to
be shown from the dredge at Greymouth, is published
at the request of the Greymouth Harbour Board.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister having charge of the
Marine Department.

Notice is hereby given that, while dredging operations are
proceeding at the Port of Greymouth, the following signals
will be shown on the dredge: On the side of the dredge that
all vessels should pass a red flag will be shown by day and a
red light by night. A white light will also be shown on the
side opposite to the red light.

Masters of steamers passing the dredge at night are
requested to stop their engines when practicable, in order to
avoid fouling the moorings.

JOHN CONNOR,
Harbourmaster.

Regulations (Amended) for Admission of Patients to the Rotorua Sanatorium.

Lunacy and Charitable Department,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1892.

THE following regulations for the admission of patients
to the Rotorua Sanatorium are published for general
information.

A. J. CADMAN.

REGULATIONS.

1. APPLICATIONS for admission of persons shall be addressed
   to the Resident Medical Officer of the Sanatorium, Rotorua.

2. No person shall be admitted (unless in accordance with
   Regulations 5 and 6) except on the recommendation of the
   Hospital or Charitable Aid Board of the district to which he
   belongs, or of the Trustees of the benevolent society or
   hospital (if separate institutions) of the town in which he
   lives.

3. The charge for maintenance and treatment is 21s. a
   week.

4. The Board or Trustees, in making such recommenda-
   tion, shall guarantee the cost of such patient, shall send him
   or her at their own charge to Rotorua, be responsible for his or
   her return-passage, and provide a sufficient supply of clothing.
   They shall also furnish a report on the case by a duly-
   qualified medical practitioner, in order that it may be seen
   whether the case is one that is likely to profit by treatment
   at the Sanatorium.

5. When all the beds are not occupied by patients ad-
   mitted under Regulation 2, the Resident Medical Officer
   may, at his discretion, admit persons, being bonâ fide
   hospital cases, and who have undertaken to pay 30s. a week
   for maintenance and treatment.

6. When all the beds are not occupied by patients ad-
   mitted under Regulations 2 and 5, persons may be admitted
   on the following conditions:—
   (1.) That the Resident Medical Officer has certified that
   each such person is likely to be benefited by
   treatment at the Sanatorium.
   (2.) That the expenses to and from Rotorua are provided
   by each such person, together with a sufficient
   supply of clothing.
   (3.) That not more than four such persons shall be
   resident at the Sanatorium at any one time.

7. The stay of each patient is limited to three months, but
   the Resident Medical Officer can, at his discretion, extend
   the period to six months.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1891.

IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1893, the period of litera-
ture will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books
will be Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macaulay's Essays on
Bacon and Walpole.

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1892.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in-
tituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.
The Reverend Henry George Gould.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend William McGregor.

Baptists.
The Reverend Thomas Bray.

Church of Christ.
Mr. Edmund Harvey Taylor.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.