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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 22

INDIA.—EAST COAST.—NEGAPATAM.
It is hereby notified for the information of mariners that the alteration of the light at Negapatam, referred to in this office Marine Notice No. 68 of 1902, is postponed to 1st July, 1903.
T. G. R. FINNY,
Commander, R.I.M.,
Presidency Port Office, Presidency Port Officer.
Madras, 21st January, 1903.

Notice to Mariners No. 23 of 1903.

LIGHT ON JACKSON’S HEAD BEACON, ENTRANCE TO QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 23rd March, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Wigham beacon lamp, at a height of 37 ft. above high water, has been erected on Jackson’s Head beacon, and is to be lighted on the 21st April, 1903. It will show a fixed white light, and will be visible all round the horizon, except when obscured by the land about Cape Jackson, between the magnetic bearings of N. 35° E. and N. 5° W., and it should be seen in clear weather at a distance of five miles. As the elevation would make it possible for the light to be seen about eleven miles and a half, if sufficiently bright, it is probable that in very clear weather the light may be seen beyond the limit of five miles, as given in the notice.
WM. HALL-JONES.

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 Wellington.
The warehouse known as
LEVIN AND CO.’S BOND,
as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 80, of the 4th day of March, 1875.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three.
C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 710.]

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 Wellington.
The warehouse known as
LEVIN’S NO. 2 BONDED WAREHOUSE,
as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 276, of the 4th day of October, 1887.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three.
C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 711.]

24th May to be observed as “Empire Day.”

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1903.

IT is hereby notified that in future the 24th May will be observed as a holiday in the Government offices in the colony, and that the said day will be known as “Empire Day.”
R. J. SEDDON.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Lawrence.—Notice No. 766.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 25th March, 1903.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Lawrence Borough Council has by special order declared gorse and broom 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.

Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 18th March, 1903.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made thereunder on the 25th March, 1895, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th April, 1895, the following officers, at the addresses respectively set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorised to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :—
DELANY, JAMES, Postmaster, Lyttelton.
LOGIE, HERBERT, Chief Postmaster, Westport.
MILLER, DAVID, Chief Postmaster, Wanganui.
W. C. WALKER,
For Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

Notice altering Day for closing Shops in Borough of Napier.

WHEREAS the Napier Borough Council has, under the provisions of section 3 of “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act Amendment Act, 1895,” by special resolution, appointed Wednesday to be the closing-day in the Borough of Napier, in substitution for Saturday :
Now, therefore, I, James McGowan, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, do hereby notify that Wednesday has been substituted for Saturday as the day upon which all shops in the said Borough of Napier shall be closed.
JAS. McGOWAN,
For Minister of Labour.

Settlement of Claims for Compensation under “The Mining Act, 1891.”

Mines Department,
Wellington, 6th March, 1903.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 153rd section of “The Mining Act, 1891,” it is hereby notified that the claims for compensation enumerated in the Schedule hereto, in respect to a Proclamation issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor and the Public Seal of the Colony on the 13th day of February, 1903, declaring the Main and Branch Totara Rivers, with their tributaries, in the Land District of Nelson, to be watercourses into which tailings, &c., may be discharged, have been settled by agreement, as provided by the said Act.
JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.

Notification of Settlement of Claims for Compensation under “The Mining Act, 1898.”

Mines Department,
Wellington, 21st March, 1903.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 240th section of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is hereby notified that the claims for compensation enumerated in the Schedule hereto,