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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

New Caledonia.

Port Muéo.—The following buoys have been placed in the port: (a.) A black can buoy, moored in 3½ fms., in approx. 21° 23′ S., 164° 58½′ E., with S. pt. of Didot Isl. N. 71° E., 2³⁄₁₀ miles, and Observation Rk. N. 20° W. (b.) A black can buoy, moored in 4½ fms., in approx. 21° 23³⁄₄′ S., 164° 57¼′ E., with S. pt. of Didot Isl. N. 57° E., 3³⁄₁₀ miles, and Observation Rk. N. 3° W. The beacon 2 miles S. of Observation Rk. has been removed. [Note.—Mariners proceeding to New Caledonia should understand that, Nouméa being the only port for entry and clearance, as stated in Pacific Isls., Vol. i., Part ii., page 56, merchant ships must proceed there to obtain leave to visit any other port. There are no pilots elsewhere.] April.

Port Nouméa Approach.—The beacons marking the Prévoyante Shoal (22° 20½′ S., 166° 33′ E.) and Thisbé Shoal (22° 27′ S., 166° 28′ E.), in the approach to the port, have been perm. removed; a black buoy is moored in approx. 20° 20′ S., 166° 38′ E., on the srn. edge of Oliver Bank. July.

Nouméa.—On 15th April, 1899, a F. red Lt., elev. 59 ft. above H.W., R. about 8 miles, is to be exh. from a pyra., 6 ft. high, to the srd. of Ducrot Summit, Dubouzet or Nu Isl., and has been charted in 22° 16¼′ S., 166° 26′ E., near the water’s edge, 1½ cables S.S.E. from Ducrot Summit Lt., in line with which it leads between Île Maître and Île aux Canard. April.

Fiji Islands.

Vanua Levu.—Cocoanut Pt.—A reef, square in area and about ½ mile in extent, carrying depths of 3 ft. to 4 fms. L.W. springs, lies with its centre in approx. 17° 1³⁄₄′ S., 178° 42¼′ E., with Cocoanut Pt. N. 17° W., 1⁹⁄₁₀ miles, and Vuya Pt. N. 56° E. June.

Friendly or Tonga Islands.

Tongatabu.—A shoal patch, about 10 yds. in extent, with 2 fms. least water, marked by a red can buoy on its wrn. edge, lies in approx. 21° 2¼′ S., 175° 15¼′ W., in Egeria Chan., Tongatabu harb. entr., with E. extr. (Δ 93) of Atatá S. ¾ E., 5½ cables, and Malinoa Δ E. by N. March.

Nomuka Group.—The srn. and ern. sides of Nomuka Bank have been recently defined by H.M.S. “Penguin,” and a line of dangers discovered extending in a sly. direction from Telekitonga Isl. for 11½ miles to 20° 35′ S., 174° 86′ W. Erd. of these dangers the depths increase rapidly to over 100 fms. May.

A shoal is reported to exist between 30 and 40 miles S.-erd. of Uiha, Haapai Group. As this locality was not exam. during the recent survey, a shoal, marked P.D. has been charted in 20° 23′ S., 174° 3′ W. June.

Outlying Dangers.—The following reported dangers in the vicinity of the Tonga Isls. have been searched for unsucc., and expunged from the Admiralty charts: 1. North Star Reef, in 20° 49′ S., 174° 40′ W. 2. Sandbank, in 19° 52′ S., 174° 7′ W. 3. Disney Reef, charted as P.D. in 19° 15′ S., 173° 40′ W. 4. Bethune Patch, in 19° 34′ S., 174° 20′ W. 5. Reef, in 18° 0′ S., 17° 28′ W. [Note.—The charts of the Tonga Isls. are undergoing large corrections, and will be issued in due course.] May.

Sandwich Islands.

Hawaii.—Hilo or Byron Bay.—A F. red Lt. is exh. at the boat wharf, Waiakea; and the colour of Paukaa Lt. (19° 46¼′ N., 155° 5½′ W.) has been altered from white to green. Sept.*

Oahu.—Leahi (Diamond) Head.—On 1st July, 1899, a F. Lt. showing white from S. 83° W., through N., to N. 89° E.; red from N. 89° E., through E., to S. 80° E.; and obsc. in other directions; elev. 145 ft. above H.W., R. 15 miles, was to be exh. from a white stone tower 40 ft. high, on the head, in 21° 15¼′ N., 157° 48½′ W., in the approach to Honolulu. Sept.*

South America.

Rio de la Plata.—The s.s. “Madeleine,” sunk on 18th March, now lies in approx. 34° 44½′ N., 57° 34¼′ W., about 4 miles N. 75° W. of the Chico Bank Lt.-V. Nov.

On 13th July, appar. a small sailing-vessel with a mast proj. about 10 ft., in approx. 34° 28¾′ S., 57° 54¼′ W., between San Gabriel and Farallon Isls., Colonia approach, with Farallon Lt.-H. S. 74° W., 10¼ cables, and W. extr. of wrn. San Gabriel Isl. N. 9° W. Sept.

Members of House of Representatives elected.—General Election.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 27th December, 1899.

[THE Clerk of the Writs has received returns to the writs issued on the 22nd day of November, 1899, for the election of members to serve in the House of Representatives for the districts hereinafter specified, and by the indorsement of such writs it appears that the under-mentioned persons have been duly elected members for the said districts, viz.:—

Bay of Islands:
Robert Morrow Houston.
Marsden:
Robert Thompson.
Waitemata:
Richard Monk.
Eden:
John Bollard.
City of Auckland:
William Joseph Napier.
George Fowlds.
William Crowther.
Parnell:
Frank Lawry.
Manukau:
Sir George Maurice O’Rorke, Kt.
Franklin:
William Fergusson Massey.
Thames:
James McGowan.
Ohinemuri:
Jackson Palmer.
Waikato:
Frederic William Lang.
Bay of Plenty:
William Herbert Herries.
Waiapu:
James Carroll.
Hawke’s Bay:
William Russell Russell.
Napier:
Alfred Levavasour Durell Fraser.
Waipawa:
Charles Hall.
Pahiatua:
John O’Meara.
Masterton:
Alexander Wilson Hogg.
Wairarapa:
John Thomas Marryat Hornsby.
Egmont:
Walter Symes.
Taranaki:
Edward Metcalf Smith.
Hawera:
Felix McGuire.
Patea:
George Hutchison.
Wanganui:
Archibald Dudingston Willis.
Rangitikei:
Frank Yates Lethbridge.
Palmerston:
Frederick Pirani.
Manawatu:
John Stevens.
Otaki:
Henry Augustus Field.*
Suburbs of Wellington:
Thomas Mason Wilford.
City of Wellington:
John Hutcheson.
Arthur Richmond Atkinson.
George Fisher.
City of Nelson:
John Graham.
Motueka:
Roderick McKenzie.
Wairau:
Charles Houghton Mills.
Buller:
James Colvin.
Grey:
Arthur Robert Guinness.
Westland:
Richard John Seddon.
Ashley:
Richard Meredith.
Kaipoi:
David Buddo.
Avon:
William Wilcox Tanner.
City of Christchurch:
William Whitehouse Collins.
Charles Lewis.
Henry George Ell.
Lyttelton:
George Laurenson.
Riccarton:
George Warren Russell.
Ellesmere:
Robert Heaton Rhodes.

*Since deceased.