the Superintendent of any Province, on such terms and conditions, and subject to such limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed in that behalf, all or any of the powers thereinbefore reserved to the Governor by the ninth clause of the said Act:

And whereas it appears to me expedient to delegate to Superintendents of Province the power of prescribing the roads and other public works upon which the persons in confinement as aforesaid may be employed from time to time.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, do hereby delegate to John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Otago, and to his Successors in office, the power specially above set forth to be exercised by him within the said Province during pleasure.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, this sixteenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

ROCKS OUTSIDE PORT PHILLIP HEADS.

THE following Notice to Mariners, describing the positions of sunken rocks near the entrance to Port Phillip Heads, and giving sailing directions for avoiding the same, is published for general information.

These dangers will be known hereafter as the “Ferguson Rocks.”

Robert S. Anderson,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Department of Trade and Customs,
Melbourne, 20th Dec., 1862.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Rocks Outside of Port Phillip Heads.

Masters of vessels, pilots, and others, navigating the entrance of Port Phillip, are hereby informed that two (2) patches of sunken rocks, not hitherto known, have been found to exist outside of Point Nepean.

The positions of these dangers have been accurately defined, their neighbourhood and the entrances thoroughly sounded over, by Commander Cox, R.N., Admiralty Surveyor.

These rocky patches are nearly one hundred and seventy (170) fathoms apart, and lie about N.W. by W. and S.E. by E. from each other; a line passing through the tidal flagstaff and the Point Lonsdale red ball beacon leads over the middle of both patches.

The eastern patch is about fifteen fathoms in extent, having not more than twenty-nine (29) feet over its shoalest part with seven (7) and eight (8) fathoms close to, and lies eight-tenths of a mile S.W. by W. from the red beacon on Nepean dry rock, and about one mile and four-tenths S.E. by E. from Point Lonsdale flagstaff.

The western patch is about one-third larger than the other, and is the most dangerous, being nearer the fairway, and having only sixteen (16) feet on the head of the shoalest rock, which rises abruptly out of eight (8) fathoms; about twenty (20) fathoms to the southward of it there is another rock with only twenty-four (24) feet over it.

The western patch lies about nine-tenths of a mile W.S.W. from the red beacon on Nepean dry rock, and about one mile and one-tenth S.E. by E. from the Lonsdale flagstaff.

To avoid these dangers, all vessels, whether bound in or out, except those of very moderate draught, should endeavor to keep to the westward of them both.

Directions to clear both patches.—Keep the new high lighthouse just open to the westward of the old low lighthouse until you open the telegraph station on Point Lonsdale well out to the northward of the tidal flagstaff when bound inwards, and well out to the southward of the tidal flagstaff when bound outwards.

Note.—When the lights are exhibited from the new lighthouses, of which due notice will be given, a stone obelisk colored red will be erected in the place of the old low lighthouse, and will then become the clearing mark for these dangers and the Corsair Rock.

All bearings are magnetic, and depths at low water, spring tides.

Charles Ferguson,
Chief Harbor Master.
Department of Ports and Harbors,
Williamstown, 20th December, 1862.

EXTENSION OF TIME

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Provincial Secretary, until 4 p.m. of Tuesday, the 13th January, 1863, for the construction of a Bridge across the Island Stream Otepopo. Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at the Police Office, Oamaru.

By Order, Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary,
Dunedin, 30th December, 1862.

TENDERS will be received until four (4) p.m. of Tuesday, 20th January, for the maintenance of Road “Dunedin to Taieri Ferry.” Specifications may be seen at the Road Engineer’s Office.

By Order, Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary,
20th December, 1862.