Notice to Mariners No. 30 of 1900.

DREDGING OPERATIONS, PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 7th June, 1900.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Lyttelton Harbour Board, is published for general information :

The Lyttelton Harbour Board direct special attention to the dredging operations now proceeding at Lyttelton, and caution all masters of steamers and sailing-vessels to pass the dredge and her moorings on the side on which a black ball is shown in the daytime, and two red lights which will be shown at night.

Attention is also directed to Harbour Regulation No. 34 : "Steamships about to pass any dredging-machine at work in any harbour, river, or channel, or any licensed ferry, or public work in progress, must slow their engines to less than half speed for at least one hundred yards before arriving abreast of any such dredge, ferry, or work."

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 31 of 1900.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th June, 1900.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, are published for general information.

VICTORIA.—PORT OF PORT PHILLIP.—St. KILDA.

REFERRING to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 1st June, 1898, page 85, it is hereby notified that the pier at St. Kilda has been extended seawards a distance of 500 ft., with an L end of 200 ft., into a depth of 11 ft. at low water.

The fixed green light is now exhibited from the inner angle of the new extension with the new L end.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Harbour Office, Customs,
Melbourne, 8th May, 1900.

PORT OF GEELONG.—HOPETOUN CHANNEL.

Referring to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 1st June, 1898, page 74, masters and others in charge of vessels proceeding outwards from Geelong are hereby cautioned not to leave the Hopetoun Channel before being well clear of the outer Red Beacon which marks its termination, as accidents are liable to occur through the course of vessels being altered and the channels left by steering towards the Wilson Spit Gas Buoy after passing No. 1 Black Beacon, and before passing the outer Red Beacon, of such channel.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Harbour Office, Customs,
Melbourne, 11th May, 1900.

PORT OF GEELONG.—NO. 6 BEACON, HOPETOUN CHANNEL.

Referring to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 1st June, 1898, page 71, masters and others navigating vessels through Hopetoun Channel are hereby informed that the re-erection of No. 6 Beacon of such channel is now in progress, and are also warned to cause vessels under their charge to proceed at a slow rate of speed when passing such beacon while repairing operations in connection therewith are being carried out.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.
Harbour Office, Customs,
Melbourne, 14th May, 1900.

PORT OF PORT ALBERT.—EASTERN CHANNEL.

Referring to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 1st June, 1898, page 105, mariners and others are hereby informed that Clonmel Island, as mentioned in the description of the Eastern Channel, Port of Port Albert, has disappeared, and other changes in the channel referred to have occurred, and it is also notified that the shifting nature of such channel, more especially during easterly winds, renders it necessary to frequently alter the number and positions of the buoys marking the entrance-channel. The outer entrance to the channel is now indicated by a fairway-buoy, within which the channel has red buoys on the starboard side and black buoys on the port side, and vessels proceeding to Port Albert should endeavour to pass close to these buoys until reaching the mouth of the river, which is marked with beacons on each side, when a course may be steered between such beacons.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.
Harbour Office, Customs,
Melbourne, 22nd May, 1900.

Notice to Mariners No. 32 of 1900.

TORY SHOAL, ENTRANCE TO KAIPARA HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 12th June, 1900.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 25 of 1900, issued by this department on the 30th ultimo, it is hereby notified that the Harbourmaster at Kaipara reports that two buoys have been placed in their former positions on the western edge of Tory Shoal, at the entrance to that harbour.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads through Awarua Block, Pukeokahu and Ohinewairua Survey Districts.

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, in January, 1899, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by warrants dated the 23rd day of October, 1895, and the 12th day of May, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate Area Being Portion of Survey Shown on Coloured
of Land Awarua Block District. Plan marked on Plan
taken. Block

A. R. P. V., IX. Pukeokahu 178/1HB Brown.
17 3 34 2c No. 2
42 2 15 2c I., II., V. 178/2HB
32 1 20 " I., V. 178/3HB
" IV., VIII. Ohinewairua
36 2 12 " VIII.,XII. 178/4HB
27 0 0 " XI., XII. 178/5HB
22 2 12 3A No. 2 XI. " Neutral
" tint.
5 1 16 3D No. 3, X. " Red.
Sec. 1
2 1 37 3D No. 3, " " Purple.
Sec. 2
69 0 0 2c VII., XI., XII. 178/6HB Brown.
47 2 35 " VII.,VIII. 178/7HB

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 Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 8th day of June, 1900.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through Awarua Blocks 3a No. 2e, d, k, f, g, i, h, Ohinewairua 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, in July, 1899, 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 23rd October, 1895.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate Area Being Portion of Survey Shown on Coloured
of Land Awarua Block District. Plan marked on Plan
taken. Block

A. R. P. XI. Ohinewairua 184 Purple.
3 3 17 3A No. 2D
16 2 5 3A No. 2E XI., XV. " Red.
20 3 20 3A No. 2F XV. " Purple.
8 0 20 3A No. 2K " " Yellow.
2 2 13 3A No. 2G " " Red.
4 0 5 3A No. 2I " " Purple.
1 1 35 3A No. 2H " "

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 Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 8th day of June, 1900.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.