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housed without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely,—

Port of Invercargill.

The warehouse known as

INSTONE’S BOND,

as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 303, of the 22nd day of May, 1888.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 611.]

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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 Invercargill.

Portion of a wooden building, roofed in iron, situated on the Railway Reserve and fronting Liddel Street, to be known as

MACKERRAS AND HAZLETT’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 612.]

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Notice to Mariners, No. 13 of 1899.

OTAGO HARBOUR ENTRANCE. — EXHIBITION OF LIGHTS ON MAIN CHANNEL BEACONS, AND DISCONTINUANCE OF LIGHTS ON ORIGINAL BEACONS ON SANDSPIT.

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Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 20th April, 1899.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners, No. 40 of 1898, issued by this department on the 6th December, 1898, the Otago Harbour Board notify that on and after Thursday, the 15th June, 1899, two fixed white lights, visible seaward five to six miles distant, will be shown from sunset to sunrise from the Main Channel leading-beacons. The front beacon is 20 ft. high, and stands on Harrington Point; the back beacon is 30 ft. high, and stands on a site east of the Maori Kaik Jetty, the front beacon-light being 30 ft. and the back beacon-light 60 ft. above sea-level at low tide. The beacons are 6,600 ft. apart, and bear from each other S. by E. ½ E. and N. by W. ½ W. respectively, and are painted white. The Harbourmaster has supplied the following information for the guidance of mariners:—

1. The depth of water at low tide on this line of beacons is 32 ft.

2. Directions for entering Otago Harbour on this line: When two miles off the entrance bring the beacons in line on a S. by E. ½ E. bearing; then steer in on this course, keeping the beacons in line until the outer end of the mole or training-wall is brought abeam; then steer for Harrington Point, which may be safely passed half a cable distant, continuing a mid-channel course between the buoys, leaving the red buoys on the starboard side and the black buoys on the port side.

On and after the above date of Thursday, the 15th June, 1899, the lights on the original beacons on Sandspit marking the old channel will be discontinued. These beacons will, however, remain, and mark the old channel by daylight. Mariners are, however, warned that this old channel has a depth of 21 ft. 6 in. only, and is only considered safe when the bar is smooth for vessels drawing 19 ft., and when the bar is rough for vessels drawing 16 ft.

All bearings are correct magnetic, and the soundings are calculated for low water, spring tides.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 2411, 2532, and 2533; “New Zealand Pilot,” Chapter vii., page 305.

WM. HALL-JONES.

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Notice to Mariners, No. 14 of 1899.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 26th April, 1899.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

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ST. VINCENT GULF.—APPROACH TO PORT ADELAIDE.—SEMAPHORE ANCHORAGE.

Notice is hereby given that the red leading-light on the flagstaff has been removed to the south side of the Water Tower, the line of bearing between the two lights being S.E. ¼ S., the same as before.

NOTE.—This affects Admiralty Plan No. 1750.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 24th March, 1899.

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Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through Te Toiroa No. 1c, Opua whanga and Whangarei Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 10th May, 1898, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 12th September, 1898.

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SCHEDULE.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 19th day of April, 1899.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

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Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Block VI., Rotoiti Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 25th January, 1899, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 21st March, 1898.

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SCHEDULE.

TAHEKE BLOCK.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 27 acres 3 roods 9 perches, more or less, situate in Rotoiti Survey District, and being a road-reservation of a width varying from 100 links to 650 links, more or less, and lying within the boundaries of the Taheke Block No. 5516, the south-eastern angle of which being at a point on the northern side of the Rotorua Road at a distance of 471·7 links, more or less, to the westward of the Okere River crossing. Bounded towards the south by a line, 100 links; towards the west generally by lines, 1140·6, 70·2, and 4102·9 links respectively; towards the north by a line, 650 links; towards the east by a line, 4102·9 links; again towards the south by a line, 479·8 links; and again towards the east by a line, 1132·8 links, to the commencing-point: as the same is delineated on Map No. 5516A (in red), deposited in the office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

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Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1899.

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 intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of