Dec. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3709

Eastern Entrance.-An unwatched intermittent white acetylene light, elevated 51ft. above high water and visible 12 miles over an arc of 210° from 260° 30' to 56° 30', on the northern side of the eastern entrance to the channel on the first prominent point eastward of Langford Point.

The light is exhibited from a beacon consisting of a steel cylindrical tank standing on a steel truss, and surmounted by a pyramidal steel frame supporting the lantern, the whole painted black.

Foul ground extends about 600 yards seaward of the light, and is marked by kelp.

Approx. position: Lat. 52° 9' 30" N., long. 131° 0' 45" W.

Western Entrance.-An unwatched intermittent white acetylene light, elevated 80 ft. above high water and visible 14 miles over the entire horizon, except where obscured by the high land of Anthony Island, on the summit and near the eastern end of Flat Rock, western side of the western entrance to the strait.

The light is exhibited from a beacon consisting of a cylindrical steel tank standing on a steel truss, and surmounted by a pyramidal steel frame supporting the lantern, the whole painted red.

There is a good and safe channel between Flat Rock and the western Gordon Islet.

Approximate position on H.O. Chart No. 1770, latitude 52° 6' 30" N., longitude 131° 11' 30" W.

STRAIT OF GEORGIA.-ACTIVE PASS.-GEORGINA POINT LIGHT-STATION.-INTENDED CHANGE IN FOG-SIGNAL.-PROVISIONAL SIGNAL.-Alterations are being made to the fog-alarm building on Georgina Point, Active Pass, British Columbia, and a diaphone fog-alarm is being installed.

About 1st October, 1911, the operation of the present fog-horn will be discontinued, and a temporary steam-whistle will be maintained until the permanent diaphone fog-alarm is ready for use.

Further notice will be given.

Approx. position: Lat. 48° 52' 25" N., long. 123° 17' 50" W.

VANCOUVER ISLAND.-VICTORIA HARBOUR ENTRANCE.-MCLAUGHLIN POINT.-INTENDED FOG-SIGNAL.-Through the State Department information has been received from the American Consul at Victoria, British Columbia, that a fog-signal is being established on McLaughlin Point at the entrance to Victoria Harbour.

No description of the signal is given, but further information will be published when received.

CEYLON.

COLOMBO HARBOUR.-LIGHTS ESTABLISHED.-The following information concerning the establishment of lights in Colombo Harbour, Ceylon, has been received from H.B.M.S. "Odin":-

Two fixed green lights, vertically placed, the upper light 25 ft. and the lower light 19 ft. above high water, have been established on an iron pillar, on the outer end of the pier, on the northern side of the entrance to the Graving Dock, 1,650 ft. 157° from the North-east Breakwater light.

NOTE.-The outer end of this pier extends about 50 ft. farther westward than shown on existing charts.

A fixed red light is exhibited from buoy No. 52, situated 1,300 ft. 220° from the North-east Breakwater light.

A fixed green light is exhibited from buoy No. 33, situated 2,250 ft. 185° from the North-east Breakwater light.

Approximate position of North-east Breakwater light: Latitude 6° 57' 30" N., longitude 79° 51' 15" E.

CALIFORNIA.

ANO NUEVO LIGHT-STATION.-LIGHT MOVED.-HEIGHT AND INTENSITY INCREASED.-Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 32 (2253) of 1911, further notice is given that on 10th September, 1911, the fixed white light on Año Nuevo Island, sea-coast of California, was moved about 90 yards 50° from its former position and re-established 65 ft. above high water on the top of a white hexagonal tank-house. The light was at the same time changed from a lens lantern to a 4th-order light with incandescent petroleum vapour as an illuminant.

Approx. position: Lat. 37° 6' 20" N., long. 122° 20' 10" W.

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.

TONGA OR FRIENDLY ISLANDS.-TONGATABU ISLAND.-SUBMERGED VOLCANO NORTH-WESTWARD.-An active submerged volcano, over which the least depth is 40 fathoms, is reported by H.B.M.S. "Torch" to exist about 19 miles north-westward of Tongatabu Island, Tonga or Friendly Islands, in (approximately) latitude 20° 50' S., longitude 175° 33' W.

NOTE.-This is probably the cause of the discoloured water reported by Captain Percy Holford, of the steamer "Tofua." See N.Z. Notice to Mariners No. 66, 1911.

WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON SOUND.-ROSARIO STRAIT.-PEAPOD ROCKS LIGHT.-CHARACTERISTIC CHANGED.-Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 34 (2413) of 1911, further notice is given that on 15th September, 1911, the fixed white post-lantern light on Peapod Rocks, Rosario Strait, was replaced by a flashing white lens-lantern light showing 1 flash every 3 seconds-thus, flash 0.3 second, eclipsed 2.7 seconds.

The new light is shown from a framework on top of a square wooden house.

The illuminant is acetylene gas.

Approx. position: Lat. 48° 38' 30" N., long. 122° 44' 30" W.

MALACCA STRAIT.

PULO PISANG.-WRECK SOUTH-WESTWARD.-The wreck of the steamer "Mersing," with mast showing above water, lies sunk in 4 fathoms 1 mile 234° from Pulo Pisang Lighthouse, Malacca Strait.

Approximate position of lighthouse, latitude 1° 28' 15" N., longitude 103° 15' 30" E.

Notice to Mariners No. 152 of 1911.

THE NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE TABLES FOR 1912 AND SUPPLEMENT TO THE "NEW ZEALAND PILOT," EIGHTH EDITION, 1908.

Marine Department,

Wellington, N.Z., 11th December, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Marine Department has now published the New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables for 1912, with supplementary information to date relating to the "New Zealand Pilot," eighth edition, 1908.

The work contains about 380 pages, twenty-six folded plans of New Zealand Harbours and Wharves, five coloured maps of New Zealand, one illustrating the different kinds of lighthouses, two showing separately on North and South Islands the magnetic variation curves for 1908, and the other two showing the railway and steamer communication up to date for both Islands. The work also contains much information relating to the principal ports and harbours of New Zealand and of value to mariners.

The publication may be obtained at the Government Shipping-offices at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, at the Customhouses in other ports, and from the booksellers who stock it. Price, 2s. 6d.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice to Mariners No. 155 of 1911.

ISSUE OF NEW NAUTICAL TABLES.

Marine Department,

Wellington, N.Z., 13th December, 1911.

A NEW edition of Captain Blackburne's Tables for Azimuths and Great Circle Sailing has just been published by the Marine Department. About fifty pages of the new matter has been added to the 5s. edition of these tables, and the tables for the reduction to the meridian which are used in conjunction with the A and B correction, and were published in the larger 7s. 6d. work of Tables for Azimuths and Reduction to the Meridian, have been published in this edition; but the new edition does not contain the calculated reductions and azimuths of circumpolar stars which are given in the 7s. 6d. edition. Price, 6s.

Published by Marine Department, New Zealand Government, Wellington, New Zealand, and sold in New Zealand at the Shipping-offices. Sole Agent in United Kingdom: James Brown and Son, 52-56 Darnley Street, Glasgow.

J. A. MILLAR.

Despatch.-Foreign Boats fishing in French Waters.

Marine Department,

Wellington, 4th December, 1911.

THE following despatch, received from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.