Dec. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3375

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1908, will be held at the Courthouse, OAMARU, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m.:—
Wednesday, 3rd February.
Wednesday, 1st September.

SITTINGS IN BANCO AND IN CHAMBERS.

Sittings of the Court in Banco will be held at the Courthouse, AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, CHRISTCHURCH, and DUNEDIN, every Wednesday, at half past 10 o'clock in the forenoon, except during vacation or the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers will be held at the Judge's Chambers, in the Courthouse, AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, CHRISTCHURCH, and DUNEDIN, every Tuesday and Friday, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, except during vacation or the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers at other times and in vacation, in respect of urgent business, may be held at such times and places as may suit the convenience of the Judge.

In all other cities and towns in which sittings of the Court are held, such business in Banco and in Chambers as the Judge shall allow may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint.

PROVISION AS TO HOLIDAYS.

If any of the days above appointed for sittings shall be a public holiday, the sitting shall commence on the first day after the day so appointed which is not a holiday. It shall be lawful for any one or more Judges of the Supreme Court to order that the Supreme Court and the offices thereof at any place shall be closed for any public or proclaimed holiday in the district.

Given under our hands at Wellington this 22nd day of October, 1925.
ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
W. A. SIM, J.
J. R. REED, J.
ALEX. S. ADAMS, J.
H. H. OSTLER, J.
Approved in Council.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice to Mariners No. 89 of 1925.
PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE TABLES FOR THE YEAR 1926.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 7th December, 1925.

THE Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables for the year 1926 has been published, and may now be purchased from all Government Shipping Offices throughout this Dominion.

The contents of this publication embrace : Astronomical Ephemeris used in navigation and nautical astronomy;

Right Ascension of the Mean Sun; The Sun's Declination and the Equation of Time at every two hours of Greenwich Mean Time; The Sun's Semi-diameter at Greenwich Mean Noon; The Moon's Age and Upper Meridian Passage in New Zealand Mean Time at every day throughout the Year, and the Moon's Phases in New Zealand Civil Mean Time.

The times of sunrise and sunset for Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington are given for every day, from which the times of sunrise and sunset for Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Westport may be easily found.

The times of rising, setting, and meridian passage of planets and bright stars seen at Wellington at each mid-monthly period, in New Zealand Civil mean time, are included.

Positions of the principal stars used in navigation for the Ist of January, also the times of their meridian passages for the middle of each month, the more important astronomical phenomena, &c., for 1926; and some useful nautical tables, and a lengthy explanation of the various elements, are provided.

Tide Tables giving daily times of high and low water and their heights are provided for the ports of Auckland, Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Westport. Also time differences, by the application of which the approximate times of high and low water at various places within the Dominion may be obtained.

Tidal-stream predictions, showing the approximate times when the streams are slack at Tory Channel and at French Pass are given for each tide throughout the year.

The book contains courses and distances between the main ports of the Dominion, and between the principal Dominion ports and many places overseas; magnetic variation throughout the Dominion for the year 1928; a catalogue of the several Admiralty charts of this Dominion's coasts, &c., showing the last year of correction; Dominion time service for chronometer rating purposes; Dominion standard time; general harbour and storm signals; general information of use to navigators and others; a list of customs controlling ports; railway distances and a railway map; and important Notices to Mariners issued by the Imperial Board of Trade.

The principal ports of the Dominion are described from latest information, which has been revised by the several harbour authorities; and some plans of harbours and berthage accommodation are given.

Several important changes which have taken place since publication of the Admiralty “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, are included for the use of mariners.

Greenwich Mean Time: The attention of mariners is drawn to the times styled G.M.T. (Greenwich mean time) which are now reckoned from midnight as in Civil usage; but up to and including the year 1924 these were reckoned from noon in accordance with the then usual custom of astronomers. Therefore, all references to G.M.T. in this book refer to Greenwich mean time, which now commences at midnight (0 h. = midnight).

Published by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Marine. Price 3s. 6d.

Early application for copies is advisable owing to a limited number only being available.
G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Certificates of Naturalization granted.
Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 7th December, 1925.

It is hereby notified, for public information, that certificates of naturalization, in accordance with the provisions of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Act, 1923, have been granted to the persons named and described hereunder.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

SCHEDULE.