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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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from a N.W. gale, the “Tutanekai” touched very slightly
on a rock which is not marked on the chart, and which
has 12 ft. water on it at low water spring-tides, the chart
showing 84 fathoms close to the danger.
The bearings from the rock are,–
Schooner Point, E. by S., quarter of a mile.
Seventy Fathoms Point, N. ½ E., quarter of a mile.
The rock is one cable’s length from the shore on the
south side of the Sound.
Bearings magnetic.
Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty charts Nos. 768 and
2591; “New Zealand Pilot,” Chapter ix., pages 372 and
373.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Marine.

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Notice to Mariners, No. 8 of 1898.

EXPLOSIVES WHARF, WESTPORT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th January, 1898.

THE Westport Harbour Board have notified the con-
struction of an explosives wharf, situated on the
eastern side of the Buller River, and about 1,850 ft. below
the coal-staiths at the Port of Westport, which is appointed
by the Board as the place at which all explosives must be
discharged on and after the 1st February, 1898.
Chart, &c., affected: Admiralty chart No. 2616; “New
Zealand Pilot,” Chapter ix., pages 397 to 401.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Marine.

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Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this
purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation
Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse
to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond,
namely,–

Port of Lyttelton.

Part of the top floor of a four-story brick building
fronting Packer’s Right-of-way, between Cashel and
Lichfield Streets, on Sections 893 and 894 of the City of
Christchurch, to be known as

WARDELL’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-eight.

W. C. WALKER,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 587.]

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Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 12th January, 1898.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination
of surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is
hereby notified that the following persons have been granted
certificates :–

Under Clause 19.
Strachan, James Robertson.

Under Clause 21.
Hanify, Hugo Page.
Sladden, Lewis Coster.
Johnston, James Walker.
Wilson, Donald Munro.
Jennings, John Henry.
Browning, John Samuel.

S. PERCY SMITH,
Chairman of the Board of Examiners.

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Examination for Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th November, 1897.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination
of surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is
hereby notified that the next examination thereunder will
be held on 29th March next.

T. M. GRANT,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

Officiating Ministers for 1898.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1898.

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-
titled “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 Venerable Archdeacon Harry Stocker, B.A.
The Reverend William Henry Browne.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Griffith Jones.

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend William Simpson Fernie.
The Reverend Edmund Charles Isaac.

Students of Truth.

Mr. Arthur Bently Worthington.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the
month of December, 1897. Altitude above the sea,
140ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Light showers of rain during the month, the
maximum fall recorded on 28th 0·38in., very small total fall ;
generally fine bright weather, though strong winds prevailed
from north-west. Maximum temperature in shade 76°·8,
minimum 42°; mean temperature of dew-point, 48°·8; mean
humidity, 69. Earth-shock on 8th, at 2·41 a.m., prolonged,
S. to N; also on 27th, at 8 p.m., slight.

R. B. GORE, Observer,