2898
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

Ships with masts over 100 feet in height are warned of
the existence of a telephone wire stretching across the New-
castle Island Passage, near “Stone Quarry” marked on
the chart.

Vancouver Island—East Coast—Stuart Channel—Escape
Reef—Beacon established.—A pyramidal wooden beacon,
12 feet square at the base, surmounted by a staff carrying a
lattice-work drum 8 feet high and 8 feet in diameter, the
whole painted white, and showing 20 feet above high-water
mark, has been erected by the Government of Canada on
Escape Reef, Stuart Channel.

Approx. position: Lat. 48° 56′ 46″ N., long. 123° 39′ 40″ W.
The reef covers 4 feet at high water. The beacon stands
on a bed of concrete 2 feet deep.

Vancouver Island — East Coast — Stuart Channel—Danger
Reef—Light on Beacon.—Referring to Notice to Mariners
No. 22 (1100) of 1903, the Canadian Government has given
further notice that in consequence of the threatened collapse
of the wreck of the steamer “Miami” the light shown
therefrom was on 1st October, 1904, discontinued, and has
been replaced by a similar light shown from the summit of
a small wooden tower, painted white, standing on a wooden
framework foundation painted black.

The light is shown from a 31-day Wigham lamp fixed
inside the framework of the wooden beacon.

Approx. position: Lat. 49° 3′ 42″ N., long. 123° 42′ 43″ W.

The light is a fixed white light, elevated about 24 feet
above high-water mark, and should be visible nine miles
from all points of approach by water.

The illuminating apparatus consists of a pressed glass
lens.

The light is unwatched. When passing to southward it
should be given a berth of at least 600 yards.

AFRICA.

Cape Colony—Table Bay—Hydrographic information.—
Lieutenant G. W. Logan, U.S. Navy, navigating officer of
the U.S.S. “Castine,” furnishes the following hydrographic
information regarding Table Bay and the Port of Cape-
town:—

Breakwater.—The breakwater as indicated by dotted lines
on H.O. Chart No. 1558 is now completed, and a further
extension has been undertaken. This extension, upon which
considerable progress has already been made, consists in
prolonging the north horn of the breakwater for a distance
of 1,050 feet in its present direction, about N. 73° E. true
(E.S.E. ½ E. e’ly mag.).

Lights.—The fixed green light which formerly marked the
extremity of the north horn of the breakwater, and which
was reported destroyed (see Notice to Mariners No. 23 (867)
of 1904), will probably not be re-established until the com-
pletion of the extension of the breakwater, when it will be
placed on the outermost point.

The triangle of white lights which was shown from the
south pier has been discontinued since the completion of the
breakwater.

A fixed white light is now shown on the south-east side of
the entrance to the basin, on the extremity of the now com-
pleted south pier.

The buoy which formerly marked the position of a wreck
lying N. 10° E. true (N.E. ½ N. mag.), distant 0·8 mile from
the extremity of the north breakwater, has been withdrawn,
a careful survey having shown that there is a least depth of
7 fathoms over the wreck.

Notifying Land in the Southland Land District subject to
“The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 6th December, 1904.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settle-
ments Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that
the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as
the Edendale Settlement, which has been acquired under
the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

EDENDALE SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing
19,784 acres, more or less, being Lot 267 on D.P. No. 229;
Lots 232, 233, 234, 253, 254, 260, 261, and 262 on D.P. No. 128;
parts of Lots 231a, 231b, and 231c on D.P. No. 161; Lots
207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 216, 222, 223, and 224, and parts of
Lot 213, on D.P. No. 107; Lot 266, and part of Lot 265, on
D.P. No. 146; Lots 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 25, 26, 29, 32, 33, 35, and
part of Lot 23, on D.P. No. 172; Lot 7 on D.P. No. 13; Lots
69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89, and 90 on
D.P. No. 106, deposited in Land Transfer Office, Invercar-
gill, and being Sections 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
18, 19, 20, 37, 47, 55, and parts of Sections 4, 6, 7, 17, 29, 30,
31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,
53, and 54, Block I., and part of Section 1, Block III., Mataura Hundred; Sections 3 and 4, and parts of Sections 2,
5, and 6, Block XI., and parts of Sections 7 and 13, Oteramika Hundred; and parts of Blocks 38, 40, 60, 62, and 64,
Lothian Hundred, together with parts of closed roads
therein; Lots 4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42, and
part of Lot 30, on D.P. No. 175; Lots 5, 6, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19a, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and part of Lot 10, on D.P. No. 174a;
Lots 268, 269, and 270 on D.P. No. 229; Lot 2a and part of
Lot 1 on D.P. No. 173; Lot 237 and parts of Lots 235 and
236 on D.P. No. 128; Lots 239, 240, 247, 248, and part of
Lot 245, on D.P. No. 129, and being Sections 7, 23, 25, and
parts of Sections 26 and 27, Block V., and parts of Blocks
9, 15, 21, 26, 50, 52, 54, 55. and 57, Lindhurst Hundred;
Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
and 21, Block III., and part of Block 60, Lothian Hundred;
Sections 18, 21, 22, and parts of Sections 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 17, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, and 28, Block III., and parts of
Sections 1 and 13, Block II., Mataura Hundred, and also
parts of closed roads therein; also part of Lot 38 on D.P.
No. 175, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, Invercargill, being part of Blocks IX. and XV., Lindhurst Hundred, and also part of Section 22, Block III., Lothian
Hundred, the same being now known as Sections 1e, 2e, 3e,
4e, 5e, 6e, 7e, 8e, 9e, 10e, 11e, 12e, 13e, 14e, 15e, 20e,
and gravel reserve, Block IX., and Sections 16e, 17e,
18e, 19e, 21e, 22e, 23e, 24e, 25e, 26e, 27e, 28e, 29e, 30e,
31e, 32e, 33e, 34e, 35e, 36e, 37e, 38e, 39e, 40e, 41e, 42e, 43e,
44e, 45e, 124e, 126e, 127e, and 129e, Block X., Lindhurst
Hundred; Sections 85e, 86e, 87e, 88e, 89e, 90e, 91e, 92e, 93e,
94e, 95e, 96e, 97e, 98e, 99e, 100e, 101e, 102e, 103e, 104e,
105e, 106e, 107e, and 108e, Block I., Sections 46e, 47e, 48e, 49e,
50e, 51e, 52e, 53e, 61e, 62e, 63e, 64e, 65e, 66e, 67e, 68e, 69e,
70e, 71e, 72e, 73e, 74e, 75e, 76e, 77e, 78e, 79e, 80e, 81e, and
82e, Block III., Mataura Hundred; Sections 54e, 55e, 56e,
57e, 58e, 59e, and 131e, Block III., and Sections 60e, 83e, 84e,
109e, 110e, 132e, 133e, 134e, and 135e, Block V., Lothian
Hundred; Sections 111e, 112e, 113e, 114e, 115e, 116e, 117e,
118e, 119e, 120e, 121e, and 122e, Block XI., Oteramika
Hundred; also Sections 7, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 80,
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89, 90, 253, 254, 260, 261, and 262, Township of Edendale: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19299, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

R. J. SEDDON,
For Minister of Lands.

“The Shops and Offices Act, 1904.”—Notice specifying Combined Districts.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 8 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904,” I, Richard John Seddon, the Minister of Labour, do hereby specify each combined district and the respective boroughs and town districts comprised therein as follows—that is to say:—

The combined district of Auckland, comprising the City of Auckland and the Boroughs of Parnell, Newmarket, and Grey Lynn.

The combined district of Wellington, comprising the City of Wellington, the Boroughs of Onslow, Karori, and Miramar, and the Town District of Johnsonville.

The combined district of Christchurch, comprising the City of Christchurch and the Boroughs of Woolston, Sumner, Lyttelton, and New Brighton.

The combined district of Dunedin, comprising the City of Dunedin and the Boroughs of South Dunedin, St. Kilda, Mornington, Roslyn, Maori Hill, North-east Valley, West Harbour, and Port Chalmers.

The combined district of Invercargill, comprising the Boroughs of Invercargill, East Invercargill, North Invercargill, South Invercargill, Avenal, and Gladstone.

The combined district of Ashburton, comprising the Borough of Ashburton and the Town Districts of Hampstead and Tinwald.

The combined district of Petone and Lower Hutt, comprising the Boroughs of Petone and Lower Hutt.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of December, 1904.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in Borough of Greytown.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing signed by a majority of the owners of all the shops in the Borough of Greytown (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”) has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops in such borough