Notice to Mariners, No. 42 of 1895.

NAPIER BREAKWATER HARBOUR, HAWKE'S BAY.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 23rd October, 1895.

THE Napier Harbour Board has notified that the position
and description of the leading lights, beacons, and
buoys for approaching the Steamer and Breakwater Wharves
at Napier Breakwater Harbour are as follow:

On and after the night of the 1st November, 1895, a red
light showing all round as far as the land will allow will be
exhibited from a standard, 25ft. above high-water mark,
erected on the Breakwater Wharf at 146ft. from its eastern
extremity. A red beacon will be exhibited from the same
position during daylight. On and after the same date a
green light showing from S.E. by S. round to E. ½ N. will be
exhibited from the end of the Steamer Wharf at the Break-
water. A green beacon will be exhibited from the same
position during daylight. The light and the beacon will be
both 25ft. above high-water mark. Vessels entering the
Breakwater Harbour should keep the green and red lights or
beacons in line. The line of these leading lights and beacons
bears S.E. ¼ E., and covers the extreme point of the main-
land at Cape Kidnappers. All bearings are magnetic and
from seaward.

A black conical buoy is placed on the Auckland Rock, 4½
cables north of Ahuriri Bluff; vessels should keep well to
the northward of this buoy. A black cask buoy is placed
clear of the north-western extremity of the Auckland Rock
patch. Vessels entering the Breakwater Harbour should
keep this buoy on the port side.

Two cask buoys painted black are placed within the
Breakwater to mark the east and west extremities of a
small patch with a minimum depth of 20ft. 6in. at low-
water ordinary spring-tides.

Vessels entering by the leading-lights or beacons must
keep both these buoys on the port side.

Three iron mooring-buoys painted with luminous paint,
which shows white in daylight, are placed as follows:
(a) 400ft. westward from end of Steamer Wharf; (b) 300ft.
northward from end of Steamer Wharf; (c) 450ft. north-
eastward from the end of Steamer Wharf.

The Breakwater is now extended about two cables' length
beyond the red light on the Breakwater Wharf, and the
surrounding rubble foundation is extended to about three
cables beyond the same light.

Vessels making for Napier Harbour in daylight should
keep well outside of the buoys at the Breakwater works and
the Auckland Rock. At night vessels should open the
white sector of the Eastern Pier light, bearing S.W., before
losing sight of the Ahuriri Bluff light, bearing S. by W.

The southern limit of the green light, bearing E. ½ N., is
immediately outside of the three-fathoms line of soundings
between the Breakwater Harbour and the entrance to the
Inner Harbour or Spit.

Bearings magnetic.

The red light at the end of the Breakwater Wharf, re-
ferred to in Notice to Mariners No. 20, of the 21st June,
1892, will be discontinued on and after the 1st November
next.

J. G. WARD.

Notice to Mariners, No. 43 of 1895.

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

J. G. WARD.

WIDE BAY BAR.

Notice is hereby given that vessels using the North Channel,
Wide Bay Bar, must now keep the beacons open once their
own width to the northward.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 23rd September, 1895.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

by all vessels when under way. In addition to the fore-
going, a white "flare-up" will be burnt at intervals not
exceeding fifteen minutes.

T. M. ALMOND,
Marine Department,
Brisbane, 3rd October, 1895.

Portmaster.

ST. VINCENT GULF.—PORT ADELAIDE RIVER.

Notice is hereby given that, in furtherance of the scheme
for lighting the river by electricity, alterations will be at
once commenced by removing No. 6 Beacon to a position on
the edge of the deep-water cutting 400ft. (approximately) in
a northerly direction from where it now stands.

While the structure is being taken down a temporary light
will be exhibited from a barge moored alongside, and such
barge and light will remain in the same position until the
new beacon is erected and the usual light shown therefrom.

As the erection of the beacon in the new position is pro-
ceeding, a temporary light will also be shown from the piles
until the work is completed.

This notice affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 2389, A and B,
Plan 1750.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President, Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
25th September, 1895.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence
(4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the
first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000lb.) of
good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impuri-
ties, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following con-
ditions, that is to say:-

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on
   or before the 31st March, 1897, and the remaining two-
   thirds on or before the 31st March, 1899.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one
   hundred thousand pounds (100,000lb.) of quicksilver has
   been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer
   to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose
   certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the
   required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named,
   inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when,
   if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a
   bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the
   quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall
   any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand
   pounds (100,000lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the
   aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Potassium Cyanide.

Department of Industries and Commerce,
Wellington, 17th January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1,000 will be
paid for the erection of a plant and the manufacture
in New Zealand of the first 200 tons of crude cyanide of
potassium from colonial produce.

1. The plant must be capable of producing at least 70
   tons of crude cyanide of potassium annually.

2. The crude cyanide of potassium so manufactured shall
   contain at least 70 per cent. of potassium cyanide.

3. The bonus will be paid in two equal instalments, the
   first instalment being payable on the production of the first
   100 tons, and the second instalment on the production of
   the second 100 tons, of crude cyanide of potassium contain-
   ing the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

4. On the completion of the plant, notice in writing must
   be sent to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Wel-
   lington, who will appoint an officer to inspect the same,
   together with the raw material then available from which
   the cyanide of potassium is proposed to be manufactured.

5. The officer so appointed shall from time to time inspect
   the process of manufacture, in order that he may satisfy
   himself that the whole of the cyanide of potassium is being
   manufactured from material of New Zealand production;
   and before any bonus is paid such officer will be required
   to certify that he is satisfied the crude cyanide of potassium
   is the product of New Zealand material only, and that it
   contains the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

6. The bonus must be claimed for the first 100 tons on or
   before the 31st March, 1897, and for the second 100 tons on
   or before the 30th September, 1898.

J. G. WARD.