Mar. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 917

9. In case of fog, masters of vessels are enjoined to use the utmost care, and the examination anchorage itself should be approached with caution.

10. The pilots attached to the ports will be acquainted with the regulations to be followed.

PART III.
Ports or Localities referred to.

UNITED KINGDOM.

Barrow. Firth of Forth. Queenstown.
Barry. Harwich. Sheerness.
Belfast. Hull. River Tees.
Berehaven. River Mersey. River Thames.
Cardiff. Milford Haven. River Tyne.
Clyde. Newhaven. Alderney.
Cromarty. Plymouth. Guernsey.
Dover. Portland. Jersey.
Falmouth. Portsmouth.

CANADA.

Esquimalt. Halifax. Quebec.

MEDITERRANEAN.

Gibraltar. Malta.

INDIAN OCEAN.

Aden. Colombo. Mauritius.
Bombay. Karachi. Rangoon.

CHINA SEA.

Hong Kong. Singapore.

AFRICA.

Cape Town. Sierra Leone.
Durban. Simons Bay.

AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide. Melbourne. Sydney.
Brisbane. Newcastle. Thursday Island.
Fremantle.

TASMANIA.

Hobart.

NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland. Port Lyttelton.
Otago. Wellington.

WEST INDIES.

Bermuda. Kingston, Jamaica.

By command of their Lordships,

H. E. PUREY-CUST,
Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Department, Admiralty,
London, 1st January, 1914.

Notice to Mariners No. 25 of 1914.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—ERECTION OF DOLPHINS IN MECHANICS BAY.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th March, 1914.

THE Auckland Harbour Board have notified that they are erecting three temporary dolphins in Mechanics Bay for the purpose of mooring the dredgers when engaged upon the work of reclamation for the Railway Department at that spot. The dolphins will be removed as soon as the work is completed.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1970 and 1896; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii, page 39.

B. W. MILLIER,
For Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 26 of 1914.

NEW RAILWAY WHARF AT PICTON.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th March, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that on and after 16th March the new Railway Wharf at Picton is to be used for all shipping visiting the port, and that the Railway Department is going to pull up the old wharf. On the same date the fixed green light now exhibited from the new wharf will be discontinued, and a fixed red light will be exhibited in its place from the same elevation. The red light now exhibited from the old railway wharf will be discontinued, and during removal of this wharf a fixed green light will be exhibited. Masters of vessels are cautioned against anchoring in the fairway so as to obstruct the approach to or departure from the new wharf.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1509 and 2054; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter vi, page 177; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1914, pages 314 and 315 and plan facing page 314.

B. W. MILLIER,
For Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1914.—Notice No. 8.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1914.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend THOMAS CARTWRIGHT CULLWICK,

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend MORGAN RICHARDS.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Astronomical Tables.

Hector Observatory,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th March, 1914.

THE following astronomical tables are published for general information. They give the New Zealand Standard mean time when the sun is on the meridian of the Hector Observatory, Wellington, and the sun’s apparent right ascension at apparent noon, Wellington. The adopted position of the transit instrument at the Hector Observatory is longitude 11 h. 39 m. 4·3 s. east of Greenwich and latitude 41° 17′ 3·8″ south, height 418 ft. above 1909 mean sea-level.

APRIL, 1914, AT APPARENT NOON.