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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Taranaki.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 9th January, 1905.

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

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER made by Taranaki County Council on 7th November, 1904, and confirmed on 5th December, 1904:—
That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1903,” the Council of the County of Taranaki hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £2,000, authorised to be raised by the Council of the County of Taranaki, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and Acts amending the same, for the reconstruction of the following bridges—Waiongona Bridge, on Te Arei Road, £1,000; Waipuku Bridge, on Mountain Road, £500; Werekino Bridge, on South Road, £500—situate in the County of Taranaki, the said Council of the County of Taranaki hereby makes and levies a special rate of ⅛d. in the pound (being portion of special bridge rate of ⅛d. in the pound previously authorised) upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property comprised within the whole of the County of Taranaki; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 15th day of May in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, at 4 per centum per annum, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The foregoing is true copy of special order duly made by the Council of the County of Taranaki, 7th November, 1904, and duly confirmed on 5th December, 1904.

C. T. MILLS,
Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 5th January, 1905.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the City of Christchurch, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

I HEREBY give notice of the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal of the Christchurch City Council to raise a special loan of £12,500 for the purpose of purchasing from the Bank of New Zealand a piece of land, to be used for the purpose of widening that portion of Colombo Street lying between Hereford Street and Cathedral Square:—
For the proposal, 634; against the proposal, 797.
And I declare the proposal rejected.

C. M. GRAY,
Mayor.

City Council Chambers,
Christchurch, 7th December, 1904.

Notice to Mariners No. 87 of 1904.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1904.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Board of Trade, London, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

PACIFIC OCEAN.

Tuamoto or Low Archipelago.

MANIHI LAGOON.—A coral reef, about ½ cable in extent, carrying less than 1½ fms., exists in approx. 14° 28′ S., 146° 2′ W., in the entr. to the lagoon, thus rendering the passage unsafe. Nov.

Admiralty charts that have received large corrections:—
No. 764. S.W. Pacific, New Hanover, New Ireland, and New Britain, plans of anchorages. June.
No. 3439. New chart, Pacific, Solomon Isls., Ysabel (Bugotu) Isl., Austria Sound. Oct.
No. 980. N. Pacific, Caroline Isls. Sept.

SOUTH AMERICA.

East Coast.

RIO DE LA PLATA.—The time sig. in approx. 34° 52½′ S., 57° 54½′ W., at Port La Plata has been disc. Also, the standard time of the Argentine Republic is the meridian of Cordova, or 4 h. 16 m. 48·2 s. slow on Gr. M.T., and not as stated in the List of Time Sigs., 1904, p. 4. Nov.

Notice to Mariners No. 88 of 1904.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 29th December, 1904.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, and the Department of Navigation, Sydney, New South Wales, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.

Wreckage in Bass Strait.

MARINERS and others are hereby notified and warned that it has been reported that floating wreckage, 60 ft. long and 20 ft. broad, apparently consisting of a capsized vessel with the keel 12 ft. above water, was seen on the 5th instant at a point approximately 39° 26′ south and 145° 6′ east, 57 miles S. 18° E. from Cape Schanck.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Melbourne, 7th December, 1904.

VICTORIA.

Dredging Operations off Wilson’s Spit.—Port of Geelong.

It is hereby notified that the work of removing shoals which exist in the fairway between the gas and cone chequered buoy, off Wilson’s Spit, will be commenced by the dredge “John Nimmo” forthwith, and that there will be exhibited a basket ball by day, and two red lights one over the other by night, from the port or starboard side of the dredger, to indicate the side on which vessels are to pass the dredger. When such basket ball or red lights are amidships, vessels may pass the dredger on either side.

Two white mast-head lights will also be exhibited by night, one near the stem and one near the stern of the dredger.

The anchor punt, from which will be exhibited a white mast-head anchor light, will also be moored in the vicinity of the dredging operations.

Caution.—Mariners and others in charge of vessels passing the dredger must proceed at the slowest possible speed, and must stop propeller engines when passing the dredger’s chains.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Melbourne, 7th December, 1904.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Cape Byron Lighthouse.—Intended Alteration in Character of Light.

It is intended, on or about the 31st July, 1905, to alter the character of the light at Cape Byron Lighthouse (lat. 28° 37′ 30″ S., long. 153° 39′ 26″ E.) from one flash of one-fifth of a second’s duration every five and fifteen seconds alternately, as at present, to one flash of one-fifth of a second’s duration every five seconds, viz.: Flash, one fifth of a second; eclipse, four seconds and four-fifths. In all other respects the light remains as before.

By order of the Superintendent.

NORMAN C. LOCKHART,
Secretary.

Department of Navigation,
Sydney, 12th December, 1904.

Hawke’s Bay Land Board: Dates of Meetings during the Year 1905.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th December, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 48 of “The Land Act, 1892,” approved of the meetings of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board being held at Napier on the second Friday in each month, and at Gisborne on the Monday immediately following the second Friday in the months of January, April, July, and October, during the year 1905.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.