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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Group, S. 39° E., 19 miles. Caution.—Mariners are warned that this reef is near the track followed by steamships between the Capricorn Group and High Peak Isl. May.

NEW ZEALAND.
Middle (or South) Island.

AWARUA OR BLUFF HARB.—The following alterations have been made in the dolphins on the Middle Ground, which in line lead to the harb.: (a.) The lower dolphin, prev. 1½ cables N. 7° E. from the ern. end of the Railway Wharf, has been moved 2¾ cables N. 64° W. to approx. 46° 36′ S., 168° 22′ E., with the ern. end of the Railway Wharf. S. 36° E., 3 cables. A green buoy marks the place it prev. occupied. (b.) The upper dolphin, prev. 2½ cables N. 29° W. from the ern. end of the Railway Wharf, has been moved 2¾ cables N. 64° W., with the wrn. extr. of the Railway Wharf, S. 12° E., 3¼ cables. Both beacons are Y-shaped, red and white hor. April.

PACIFIC OCEAN.
Tuamotu, or Low Archipelago.

ALTERED ASPECT OF ISLS.—It is reported that many of the trees and bushes on the isls. of the archip. have been destroyed by the cyclone which passed over this group in January, 1903, notably on Napuka, Takume, Raroia, Hikueru, Marokau, Ravahere, Hao, and Amanu, between the parallels of 14° and 19° S. lat. and the meridian of 140° and 143° W. long. Too much reliance must not therefore be placed on sighting these isls. at the dists. from which they were formerly vis. May.

SOUTH AMERICA.
East Coast.

RIO DE LA PLATA.—MONTEVIDEO.—On 1st May, 1903, a resurvey of the chan. between Piedras Pt. and Cuirassier Bank having been completed, the following alterations are to be made in the lt.-vs.: (a.) A lt.-v. named “Recalada,” hull red and black hor., marked “Recalada” on sides, three masts, exh. a F, white lt., elev. 42 ft., R. 12 miles, moored in 19 ft., in approx. 35° 14′ S., 56° 50½′ W., 20 miles N. 40° E. of the Tala Clump on Piedras Pt. (b.) India Pt. lt.-v. exh. an occ. white lt., moved 2 miles N. 10° W., and moored in 19 ft. on the S.-ern edge of the Cuirassier Bank about 11¼ miles N. 26° E. from N. grove on Indio Pt. (c.) The Chico Bank lt.-v. (34° 46′ s.. 57° 29¼′ W.) replaced b” a lt.-v., hull red and black hor. marked “Banco Chico,” two masts with a tower between, exh. a fl. white lt., elev. 42 ft., R. 12 miles. (d.) The Piedras lt.-v., exh. a F. white lt. (35° 29′ S., 56° 49¼′ W.), withdrawn. Also the following lt.-buoys are to be est.: (1.) A lt.-buoy, red, exh. a F. red lt., moored on the N.-wrn. extr. of Cuirassier Bank, 12¼ miles N. WE. from N. grove on Indio Pt. (2.) A lt.-buoy, red, exh. a F. red lt., moored in 18 ft., in approx. 34° 54½′ S., 57° 24¼′ W., on the S.-ern. extr. of the Chico Bank; it has been charted 9¼ miles N.E. from Embudo Pt. Note.—A new edition of Chart No. 1749 is to be issued.. May.

Notice to Mariners No. 43 of 1903.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 22nd June, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Marine Department has just issued some plane blank “Sumner” charts on a convenient scale for facilitating the “Sumner” problem in connection with Captain Blackburne’s Tables, published in the New Zealand Nautical Almanac. Every single chart is available for any latitude through the aid of the above-mentioned tables, by which greater accuracy of position is found, as well as a wider range for observation, than is given by the usually taught Sumner’s method. The charts may be “obtained at the Customhouses at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin at the price of 6d. each.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Streets in the Town of Bentinck, Wellington Land District, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th June, 1903.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of the main streets in the Town of Bentinck, Wellington Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Streets in the Town of Tahuna, Nelson Land District, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1903.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of the main streets in the Town of Tahuna, Nelson Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Waiwiri East Block, Block II., Waitohu 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 duly taken and laid off, in January, 1896, through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by Warrant dated 27th November, 1895.

SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Dated this 17th day of June, 1903.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Ohaumoko Block, Manganhero 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 duly taken and laid off in September, 1899, through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by Warrant dated the 1st day of December, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above noted, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Dated this 20th day of June, 1903.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.