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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

West Coast. — Abolition of Pilot-station at Rottnest Island (Port of Fremantle).

The Fremantle Harbour Trust Commissioners, with the concurrence of the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, hereby notify for general information and guidance of persons using the Port of Fremantle that on and after the first day of August next (1st August, 1903), the pilot establishment hitherto existing at Rottnest Island will be discontinued, and that the pilot service of the Port of Fremantle will thenceforward be worked from Fremantle.

The pilot-station at Fremantle will be worked as a shore-station, provided with a steam pilot-boat, launch, and sailing-lugger.

Rottnest Island is connected with Fremantle by telephone, and vessels bound for Fremantle will, on making Rottnest Island and requiring a pilot, signal for same to the signal-station situated at the main lighthouse on the island, and on this signal being made out it will be reported to the pilot-station at Fremantle, whence pilots will be despatched as required to board incoming vessels at the pilot boarding-ground (which is situated about five miles east of Bathurst Point, on Rottnest, as shown on new issues of Chart No. 1058).

Shipmasters are warned not to approach Rottnest nearer than three (3) miles, and to always pass in north of the island, and stand to the eastward till Fremantle time-ball tower (Arthur Head) bears S.E. (mag.), then steer S.E. towards boarding-ground.

Sailing-vessels working to the southward with a head wind, when east of Rottnest, not to stand closer than three miles to Rottnest Island or mainland.

When approaching Rottnest in the winter months, sailing-vessels must guard against getting embayed south of the island, as the winter gales generally commence at north with a falling barometer, and rapidly veer to the westward. Do not, under any circumstances whatever, heave to north, west, or south of Rottnest, but proceed to pilot boarding-ground.

At night after picking up the Woodman’s Point leading-light, stand east, through the red and into the bright sector, steer to the south-east towards boarding-ground, taking care to keep in bright ray.

The south passage at Rottnest is on no account to be attempted except by vessels whose masters hold pilotage exemption certificates.

Charts, &c., affected: 1058, Rottnest Island to Warnbro Sound; 1700, Fremantle Harbour and Gage Roads; 1033, Champion Bay to Cape Naturaliste; also Australia Directory Vol. iii., Chap. vii., Swan River to Cape Leeuwin.

Issued for and on behalf of the Fremantle Harbour Trust by

C. J. IRVINE,
Harbourmaster.
F. STEVENS,
Secretary.

Harbour Trust Office,
Fremantle, 24th March, 1903.

INDIA.

East Coast.—Vizagapatam.—Light intended.

Notice is hereby given that, from and after the 1st August, 1903, a fixed dioptric white light of the second order, visible twelve miles between the bearings of N. 10 W. through W. to S. 55 E., will be exhibited from a masonry tower near the flagstaff at Vizagapatam in latitude 17° 42′ N. and longitude 83° 18′ E.

T. G. R. FINNY, Commander, R.I.M.,
Presidency Port Officer.

Presidency Port Office,
Madras, 19th February, 1903.

This notice affects the following Admiralty charts: Bay of Bengal, Orissa, Coast, Narasapur River to Bimlipatam, No. 1711; also India (Sheet No. 4), Bay of Bengal, Cocanada to Bassein River, No. 829; and Chart No. 70 of Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal.

Bearing magnetic and from seaward.

West Coast.—Calicut Light.—Intended New Light.—Exhibition of Temporary Light.

Notice is hereby given that from 1st May, 1903, the present white light now shown on the beach at Calicut will be discontinued, and that during the progress of the work for installing a new occulting light a fixed white light will be exhibited from the new lighthouse-tower, situated half a mile north of old lighthouse and close to the flagstaff, visible in clear weather from a distance of 12 miles in all directions seaward.

Further notice will be given of the date on which the new permanent occulting light will be exhibited.

T. G. R. FINNY, Commander, R.I.M.,
Presidency Port Officer.

Presidency Port Office,
Madras, 27th February, 1903.

This notice affects the following Admiralty charts: India (Sheet 2), West Coast, Vengurla to Cape Comorin, No. 827; also Sheet X., West Coast of India, Malabar Coast, from Mt. Dilly to Calicut, No. 747; also Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Chart No. 70.

Declaring Natural Oyster-bed to be closed.

WHEREAS it is provided by the eighteenth section of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” that whenever any person shall, after the passing of this Act, have discovered on or near the coast of New Zealand a natural oyster-bed he may apply to the Collector at the port nearest to the place on or near the coast where such natural oyster-bed shall be for the issue to him of an exclusive license for the use of such oyster-bed or any part thereof; and that the Minister for the time being having charge of the Marine Department may declare such oyster-bed to be closed for a period not exceeding six months, or until such person’s claim has been settled:

And whereas Isaac Newton Harvey and Philip Hocquard, of Te Puru, in the Provincial District of Marlborough (hereinafter called “the applicants”), claim that they have discovered a natural oyster-bed on or near the coast of New Zealand—that is to say, situate in Anakoa Bay, south of Guard’s Bank, for the full width of the bay and for a mile and a half from its head or shore end—and the applicants have applied for an exclusive license for the use of such oyster-bed:

Now, therefore, I, William Hall-Jones, the Minister having charge of the Marine Department, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the said Act, do hereby declare that the natural oyster-bed hereinbefore described shall be closed for a period of six months as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, unless in the meantime the claim of the applicants be settled, and a notification thereof be published in the said Gazette.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 20th day of April, 1903.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister having Charge of Marine Department.

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

Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd April, 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 2nd September, 1901, declaring that Boatman’s Creek, with its tributaries, in the Provincial District of Nelson, shall 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.