✨ Maritime and Legal Notices
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
PENCARROW LIGHTHOUSE.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th January 1859.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on and after the First day of September next, the Light exhibited since the first day of January last, on Pencarrow Head, at the entrance of Port Nicholson, (Wellington), Cook’s Strait, New Zealand, will be a fixed Light, and not subject to eclipses at intervals of two minutes, as described in the following notice bearing date the 7th December 1858.
William Fitzherbert,
Provincial Secretary.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
PENCARROW LIGHTHOUSE.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th December 1858.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on and after the First day of January next, a New Light will be exhibited on Pencarrow Head, at the entrance of Port Nicholson, (Wellington), Cook’s Strait, New Zealand.
The New Light will be of the second order, (Catadioptric system) with eclipses at intervals of two minutes; it will be 420 feet above high water mark, and visible in ordinary weather at a distance of thirty English miles.
The following are the magnetic bearings and distances of the site of the new Lighthouse:
- From Baring Head, N.W. by N., 3 ¼ miles.
- From Sinclair Head, E. by N. ½ N., 6 ¾ miles.
- From Outer Rock of Barrett’s Reef, S.E. by E. ½ E., 1 mile.
- From Steeple Rock, S.S.E., 2 miles.
- From Cape Campbell, N.N.E. ¼ E., 33 miles.
The Lighthouse is in Latitude 41° 22' 0" S.
Longitude 174° 51' 15" E.
William Fitzherbert,
Provincial Secretary.
all Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes, and all and singular other the Premises, you diligently apply yourselves, and that, at certain days and places duly appointed or to be appointed for these purposes, into the Premises to make enquiry, and all and singular the Premises hear and determine and perform and fulfil them, doing therein what to justice appertains according to the Law and Custom of England and of the said Province.
And we command all Our Sheriffs in the said Province, at certain days and places appointed or to be appointed, to be aiding by all lawful means in the performance and due execution of the Premises.
In testimony whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent and the Seal of our Colony to be hereunto affixed.
Witness our Trusty and Well-beloved Thomas Gore Browne, Esquire, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at Government House, at Auckland, in New Zealand aforesaid, this 22nd day of January, in the 22nd year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Thomas Gore Browne.
By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Printed for the Provincial Government by Daniel Campbell, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1859, No 83
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🚂 Change in Pencarrow Lighthouse Lighting
🚂 Transport & Communications26 January 1859
Lighthouse, Pencarrow, Fixed Light, Wellington, Port Nicholson
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary
🚂 Establishment of Pencarrow Lighthouse
🚂 Transport & Communications7 December 1858
Lighthouse, Pencarrow, New Light, Wellington, Port Nicholson
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary
⚖️ Letters Patent for Justice Administration
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement22 January 1859
Justice, Law, Custom, Province, Sheriffs
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford