The New Zealand Gazette

Directions for Vessels Entering the Inner Harbour

The following directions are for the guidance of vessels entering the inner harbour. Approaching from the Southward, bring Foul Point light to bear West, distant 2 miles; then steer N. W. until Round Island light bears W. S. W.; then steer direct for it until the extreme point of *Chapel Hill bear North; then steer W. by N. until Round Island light bears S. by E. ¼ E.; then steer N. by W. ¼ W., passing midway between Osterberg point and sober Island, and keeping Round Island light bearing S. by E. ¼ E., anchor immediately when the water is shoaled to 12 fathoms.

Approaching from the Northward, when Foul Point light is made, bring it to bear S. by E. ¼ E., and steer direct for it until Round Island bears S. W. ¼ W.; then steer direct for it until the extreme point of Chapel Hill bears N. by E. ½ E., and then follow the directions already given for approaching from the Southward after Chapel Hill bears North.

The Red light is intended to direct vessels clear of the dangers of Foul Point and Chapel Rock; therefore vessels working into the harbour should be careful to keep within its limits.

James Donnan,
Master Attendant.

Master Attendant’s Office,
Colombo, 19th Dec., 1863.

• Chapel Hill being a high bluff headland, may be easily distinguished in the darkest night as when brought to bear N. or N. by E. ½ E. it will be only 1¼ mile distant, and will be the extreme point of land visible in that direction.

† The Lead should be kept going after passing Osterberg Point, as the water shoals rapidly from 26 to 12 fathoms.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 10, March 25th, 1864.]

Attorney-General’s Office,

Auckland, 12th March, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint The Honble. Thomas Bannatyne Gillies to be Registrar-General of Land.

Fred. Whitaker.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 10, March 25, 1864.]

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation duly made and issued under the Seal of the Colony, on the twenty-third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the “Otago and Southland District” was constituted under the “Supreme Court Act, 1860,” and was assigned to Christopher William Richmond, Esquire, a Judge of the said Court, and times and places were appointed for the holding of Circuit Courts in the said District: And whereas in consequence of the great increase of business of the said Court in the said District it has become necessary to appoint another Judge thereto:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, in pursuance of the power for this purpose vested in me under or by virtue of the said Act, Do hereby proclaim and declare that I have assigned the said Otago and Southland District unto the said Christopher William Richmond, Esquire, and Henry Samuel Chapman, Esquire, a Judge of the said Court.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-third day of March, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. Grey,
By His Excellency’s Command,
Thomas B. Gillies.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 9, March 12, 1864.]

POSTAL.

Contract for Mail Service between Melbourne and Dunedin.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 29th February, 1864.

THE following Articles of Agreement, with Messrs. M’Meekan and Blackwood, for Conveyance of Mails between Melbourne and Port Chalmers, are published for general information.

Thomas Bannatyne Gillies,
Postmaster-General.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made this ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, between James M’Meekan and John Hetherington Blackwood, of Melbourne, in the colony of Victoria, merchants and ship-owners, and who are hereinafter styled “the contractors” of the one part, and Her Majesty’s Postmaster-General of the colony of New Zealand, on behalf of the said colony, in pursuance of the provisions of “The New Zealand Post-office Act, 1858,” of the other part, witness, that for the considerations hereinafter mentioned, the said contractors, for themselves, their heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant, and each of them, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, covenants with the said Postmaster-General and his successors in office, as follows:—

1. The steamships “Aldinga” and “Alhambra” shall, at the commencement of the contract service hereby provided for, and during the continuance of the same, be tight, staunch, and strong, properly manned and equipped for sea, and shall be employed, as hereinafter mentioned, in the mail service between Melbourne aforesaid and Port Chalmers in New Zealand.

2. One of the said steamships shall, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of the European mail at the port of Melbourne aforesaid, in each month, leave that Port for Port Chalmers aforesaid, and shall, unless prevented by tempestuous weather, call at the Bluff Harbour to land and receive mails, and shall deliver the mails at Port Chalmers within one hundred and fifty-six hours from the hour of departure from Melbourne. Provided, that neither of the said steamships shall be required to wait at Melbourne for the European mail more than twenty-six hours after its due date for arrival there, and that one of the said steamships shall leave Melbourne for Port Chalmers at the expiration of