JUNE 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1221

Notice to Mariners, No. 18 of 1899.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th June, 1899.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Port Adelaide River.

THE attention of pilots, shipmasters, and others is directed to clause 5 of By-law No. 2, General Regulations, which requires that all ships anchored in the vicinity of the Inner Bar, Port Adelaide, must be kept to the eastward of the cutting between Snapper Point and the harbour, and to the northward of the cutting between Snapper Point and the lighthouse; and notice is hereby given that this regulation will be strictly enforced.

The master or pilot of any vessel anchoring south of the line between the respective light-beacons (Nos. 1 to 7) will be prosecuted, and will, in addition, be held liable for any damage done to the electric cable.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 17th May, 1899.

North Coast of Australia.—Approach to Dundas Straits.

The master of the s.s. “Chingtu” reports that his vessel, drawing 15 ft., grounded on a shoal (apparently sand), with Cape Crocker, bearing S.S.E., distant about nine miles.

This affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 1042 and 1044.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President, Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 2nd June, 1899.

QUEENSLAND.
Wide Bay Bar.

Notice is hereby given that the square beacons leading across Wide Bay bar must now be kept open to the northward once their own width, when a depth of 17 ft. at low-water spring-tides will be maintained.

Charts affected: Nos. 1030 and 1068; and Australia Directory, Vol. ii.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department,
Brisbane, 2nd June, 1899.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads through Porangahau and Mangamaire Blocks, Tautane 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 roads described in the Schedule hereto were, on the 30th May, 1896, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 13th February, 1896.

SCHEDULE.
ROADS IN PORANGAHAU AND MANGAMAIRE BLOCKS.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Napier, in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 21st day of June, 1899.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice as to Day for Closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the local authorities mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto have duly notified to me that the days upon which the shops in their districts shall be closed, pursuant to the provisions of “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” are the days set opposite their names in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the said Act, I, Richard John Seddon, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint that the said days shall be the days upon which all shops within the said districts shall be closed.

SCHEDULE.

Campbelltown (Bluff) Borough .. Wednesday.
Alexandra South Borough .. Thursday.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Result of Road Board Election.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1899.

THE following notice of election of members of a Road Board has been received at this office, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Akaroa-Wainui Road District, County of Akaroa:
Robert Latter.
Ashton Wachsmann.

Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 21.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Wesleyan Methodist Church.

The Reverend Robert Purcell Keal.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act, the assessed value of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of June, 1899.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 38 perches, more or less, being Section 214, situate in the Town of Greymouth, in the Provincial District of Westland, having a frontage to Preston Road of 100 links.

Also all that parcel of land, containing 39 perches, more or less, being Section 228, situate in the said Town of Greymouth, having a frontage to Preston Road of 100 links.