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Notice to Mariners.

DOG Island Lighthouse is situated on the small
Island of that name in Foveaux Strait, off the
entrance to the Bluff Harbor, in 46° 39' 35" South
latitude, and 168° 26' East longitude, as measured on
the Admiralty Chart.

The light, which will be permanently exhibited on
and after the 1st day of August, 1865, is a Holophotal
Dioptric Revolving White Light of the first order,
shewing a flash every half minute.

It is elevated 150 feet above the level of the sea,
and will be visible in clear weather at a distance of
18 nautical miles.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office, Wellington,
18th July, 1865.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, August 17, 1865, No. 32.)

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Authorising additional Postal Regulation for the
Transmission by Post of Patterns of Merchandise.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, on the
fifth day of August, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the "New Zealand Post Office Act,
1858," power is given to the Governor in
Council from time to time to make rules and regula-
tions for the managing of the several Post Offices
within the said Colony, for the receiving, despatching,
conveying, and delivering of letters (including the
imposition of fees for private boxes and deliveries);
for the detaining, opening, and return, or other dis-
posal of irregularly posted, unclaimed, and refused
letters, or as such as from any cause whatsoever cannot be
delivered or forwarded, and the contents thereof res-
pectively, and for the publication of the lists of the
same; for the making, custody, and sale of postage
labels; for the receiving and paying of money in
connection with the said Postal Service, and for the
conduct of Post Officers; and any such rules and
regulations at any time in force to alter, vary, or
revoke; and for the purpose of giving effect to the
rules and regulations so to be made, further power is
given to the Governor in Council by the said Act to
impose any penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds for any
one offence against such rules and regulations.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby make the
following additional Post Office Regulation, and doth
declare that the same shall be in force from and after
the fifth day of August, 1865.

PATTERN POST.
Regulation 85.

A system of Pattern Post will be established be-
tween places within the Colony of New Zealand, and
also between the Colony and the United Kingdom,
and the Colonies of Victoria and New South Wales,
whereby patterns of merchandize, of no intrinsic value,
may be sent by post under the same regulations and
at the same rates of postage as those of the Book
Post.

(1.) No packet of patterns must exceed twenty-four
ounces in weight.

(2.) The patterns must not be of intrinsic value:
—This rule excludes all articles of a saleable
nature, and indeed, whatever may have a value
of its own apart from its mere use as a pattern;
and the quantity of any material sent osten-
sibly as a pattern must not be so great that it
can be fairly considered as having on this
ground an intrinsic value.

(3.) There must be no writing or printing other
than the address of the person for whom the

packet is intended, the address of the sender,
a trade-mark and number, and the prices of
the articles.

(4.) The patterns must be sent in covers open at
the ends, so as to be easy of examination.

(5.) In all other respects, the regulations of the
Book Post will apply to the Pattern Post.

(6.) Any packets not in accordance with the above
regulations will be treated as letters.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice to Mariners.

CAPTAIN DECK, of the Government steam-vessel
"St. Kilda," has furnished the following report
of a Sunken Rock on which Her Majesty's ship of
war "Eclipse" struck when drawing 12 feet water:

The Rock is about seven miles to the southward
of East Cape, and is out of the usual course of
vessels drawing so much water as Her Majesty's ship
"Eclipse."—Lat. 37° 46' 20" South; Long. 178° 30'
40" E. The bearings of East Cape Island N. 10° E.;
Village Te, S. 63° W.; Wharariki Point, S. 35° W.,—
all magnetic.

CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office, Wellington,
1st August, 1865.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, August 19, 1865, No. 33.)

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

G. GREY, Governor,

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of August, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the "Court of Appeal Act, 1862,"
it is enacted that the Court shall hold its
sittings at such times and places as shall be from time
to time fixed by the Governor in Council, and pro-
claimed in the Government Gazette sixty days at
least before the times so fixed respectively:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, doth hereby fix that a sitting of the
Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within
the Supreme Court, in the City of Wellington, and
the Province of Wellington, upon the twenty-fourth
day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1865.

THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT are able to dispose of, by
private sale a few copies of Dr Hooker's "Hand-
book of the New Zealand Flora."

The price is 15s. per volume for two volumes.

The first volume only is at present published.

Purchasers will be required to pay for both volumes,
and the second will be forwarded to them as soon as it
is received by the Government.

Application to be made at this Office.

By command,
W. GISBOURNE,
Under Secretary.

THE Advertisement Sheet may be seen at every
Post Office, Police Station, Hotel, &c.,
throughout the Province, and any person leaving their
name and address will have it sent to such address
gratis.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by DANIEL CAMPBELL, of Dunedin, New Zealand
Printer to the said Provincial Government for the time being.