May 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1111

That for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £75 authorised to be raised by the Ekatahuna County Council under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the formation and metalling of that part of Bright Street, in the Township of Parkville, Ekatahuna County, between Septimus Street and Cullen Street, the said Ekatahuna County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 3d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the Bright Street Special Rating District, comprising Sections 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, of Block V., Mangaone Survey District; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off. The interest and other charges on the loan to be paid at the rate of 3½ per centum per annum. The cost of raising the loan and the first year’s interest to be paid out of the loan.

I hereby certify that the above special order was made by resolution at a special meeting of the Council held on Saturday, the 12th day of April, 1902, and confirmed at a special meeting held on Saturday, the 10th day of May, 1902.

F. C. TURNER,
Chairman, Ekatahuna County Council.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Ekatahuna was impressed hereon by Francis Collison Turner, Chairman of the Ekatahuna County Council, in my presence.

R. S. McLEAN,
County Clerk.

10th May, 1902.

Special Order made by the Manawatu County Council.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 21st May, 1902.

THE following special order, made by the Manawatu County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Treasurer.

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

THE following is a copy of a special order passed by the Manawatu County Council at a special meeting held on the 9th April, 1902, and confirmed by the Manawatu County Council at a special meeting held on the 14th May, 1902:—

“That in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by ‘The Counties Act, 1886,’ the Manawatu County Council hereby resolves as follows: That for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £900 authorised to be raised by the Manawatu County Council under the provisions of section 14, subsection (1), of ‘The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,’ for paying off liabilities for the construction of a tramway (the Sanson–Carnarvon Tramway Extension), the said Manawatu County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1½d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property within the County of Manawatu; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of June and the 1st day of December in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.”

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and the Inhabitants of the County of Manawatu was affixed in the presence of—

JAMES G. WILSON, Chairman.
THOMAS CLARK, Councillor.
F. PURNELL, Clerk.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a special order passed by the Manawatu County Council at a special meeting held on the 9th April, 1902, and confirmed at a special meeting held on the 14th May, 1902.

F. PURNELL,
County Clerk.

Sanson, 14th May, 1902.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Onslow.—Notice No. 702.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th May, 1902.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Onslow Borough Council has, by special order, declared Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, and ragwort to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under its jurisdiction.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Notice to Mariners No. 33 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th May, 1902.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.

Port Phillip Bay.—Altona.

REFERRING to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 1st June, 1898, page 77, it is hereby notified that on or about the 7th May, 1902, it is intended that, in lieu of the present western buoy, the black beacon which marks the outer end of the reef to the eastward of Altona jetty shall be the western boundary-mark in connection with the rifle ranges, the present middle buoy being shifted to the westward, midway between the abovementioned beacon and the buoy marking the eastern boundary in connection with the rifle ranges.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Department of Ports and Harbours, Port Officer.
Melbourne, 14th April, 1902.

Notice to Mariners No. 34 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th May, 1902.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Chief Harbourmaster, Fremantle, Western Australia, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

(Preliminary.)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—WEST COAST.

Fremantle Harbour.—North and South Mole Lights.

THE Government of Western Australia desire to give notice that the present lights shown from the extremities of the north and south moles, at the entrance of the river harbour, are in process of alteration, as follows:—

North Mole Light.

The present fixed white light will be altered to a dioptric fixed green light of the 4th order.

It will be displayed from a circular iron tower painted white, the height of focal plane above H.W. being 46 ft.

The light will be visible from seaward all round the horizon at a distance of twelve miles in clear weather.

South Mole Light.

The present 5th order occulting light will be altered to a dioptric white occulting light of the 4th order.

It will be also displayed from a circular iron tower, the height of focal plane above H.W. being 44 ft.

The total period will be five seconds, the duration of the light being three seconds, and the eclipse two seconds.

The dates of exhibition of the lights will be given in a future notice.

Charts affected: No. 1058, Rottnest to Warnbro’ Sound, and No. 1700, Fremantle Harbour and Gage Roads.

C. R. RUSSELL,
Harbourmaster’s Office, Chief Harbourmaster.
Fremantle, 2nd April, 1902.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested, I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do, by this order under my hand, revoke and annul the appointment of the undermentioned warehouse for the reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely,—

Port of Wanganui.

The warehouse known as

SCLANDER’S BOND,
as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 499, of the 5th day of December, 1894.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 689.]