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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 6

Notice to Mariners No. 2 of 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th January, 1901.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the United States Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C., are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

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CHINA.

CHUSAN ARCHIPELAGO.—GUTZLAFF ISLAND.—STORM SIGNALS ESTABLISHED.

On and after 20th September, 1900, the signals of the Zikawei Typhoon- and Storm-warning Service will be exhibited from the flagstaff on the summit of Gutzlaff Island.

Whenever the Gutzlaff Station is in possession of a typhoon- or storm-warning, a black ball will be hoisted at the flagstaff-head, and the signal, according to the Zikawei code, will be exhibited to all vessels while within a distance of five miles from the island.

The Zikawei code of signals in use can be obtained gratis at the semaphore station on the French Bund, Shanghai.

(See Notice to Mariners No. 50 (1152) of 1897.)

(N. M. 48, 1900.)

(Notice to Mariners No. 120 (Special) Imperial Maritime Customs, Shanghai, 1900.)

British Admiralty Charts. (Issued to U.S. Vessels.)

Nos. 1262, 2412, 1199, and 1124.

H. O. Light List, Vol. ii., No. 135, page 21.

China Sea Directory, Vol. iii., 1894, page 379.

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NORTH-EAST COAST.—WEIHAIWEI HARBOUR.—ALTERATION IN LIGHT ON FLAGSTAFF POINT.

The new illuminating apparatus which has been established at Flagstaff Point, Weihaiwei Harbour, is group intermittent of the 4th order, showing white and red sectors over the same arcs as the old light.

The light is eclipsed twice every 14 seconds, thus: Light, 2 seconds; eclipse, 2 seconds; light, 8 seconds; eclipse, 2 seconds.

The light is elevated 53 ft. above the sea, and in clear weather the white light should be visible 12 miles, the red light 8 miles.

The new lighthouse stands on the site of the old one.

The tower and dwellings are painted white.

(N. M. 49, 1900.)

(Notice to Mariners No. 352, Imperial Maritime Customs, Shanghai, 1900.)

British Admiralty Charts. (Issued to U.S. Vessels.)

Nos. 1262, 2823, and 3025.

H. O. Light List, Vol. ii., No. 130, page 21.

China Sea Directory, Vol. iii., 1894, page 553.

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Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Awarua 3b No. 2 Block, Hautapu 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 August, 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 warrant dated the 27th March, 1895.

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SCHEDULE.

TUHOE ROAD.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above noted, deposited in the District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Dated this 10th day of January, 1901.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Block III., Hautapu Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 16 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 30th January, 1900, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by warrant dated the 16th August, 1899.

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SCHEDULE.

TUHOE ROAD.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above noted, deposited in the District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Dated this 10th day of January, 1901.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Waerenga and Taheke Blocks V., VI., IX., and X., 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 roads described in the Schedule hereto were, on the 3rd April, 1900, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by warrant dated the 26th June, 1899.

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SCHEDULE.

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

Dated this 10th day of January, 1901.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1903, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1904.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if