Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 5th April, 1865.

IT is hereby notified that I have appointed

Mr. W. JOHNSTON,

to be an Inspector of Cattle in the Province of Southland, under the provisions of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

JOHN R. CUTHBERTSON,
Deputy Superintendent.

IT is hereby notified that I have appointed the undermentioned members of the Police Force to be Inspectors of Slaughter Houses for the districts set opposite the names of each respectively:

Invercargill District.—Sergeants Michael O’Keefe and William Stone Pardy.

Campbelltown District.—Sergeant Wm. Edward Shury.

New River District.—Sergeant Edward Morton.

JOHN R. CUTHBERTSON,
Deputy Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 4th April, 1865.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1865.

THE following Notice to Mariners received from the Government of the Cape of Good Hope is published for general information.

FRED. A. WELD.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

TABLE BAY NEW LIGHTS AND FALSE BAY BEACON.

Robben Island Light.

A Lighthouse has been erected on the Southernmost (and highest) hill of Robben Island, Minto Hill, at an elevation of 154 feet above the sea, a light from which will be exhibited on the 1st of January, 1865.

The Lighthouse is in Latitude 33° 48’ 52” S., Longitude 18° 22’ 33” E.

The building is a cylindrical shaft, 60 feet high, painted in horizontal Red and White bands, exhibiting a White fixed light of the 1st order, dioptric. It is visible all round the horizon, and can be seen from a ship in clear weather 19 or 20 miles.

Changes in the Green and Mouille Point Lights.

The two fixed lights in the Green Point square tower will be abandoned on the above date and a White light of the 3rd order dioptric, flashing at intervals of 10 seconds, substituted. It is 65 feet above the sea, and can be seen in clear weather from a ship 13 miles.

Mouille Light.

The old pyramidal building which carried this light will be demolished, and replaced by a cylindrical shaft, 30 feet high, painted in alternate Black and White bands, and carrying a Red light of the 4th order, dioptric. It stands at an elevation of 44 feet above the sea, and can be seen about 10 miles in clear weather.

Sailing Directions.

Ships bound for Table Bay from the southward should not shut in the Cape Point light with the land at Slangkop Point until the Roben Island light—which will be seen before the one on Green Point—bears N.E. ½ E., when they may steer for it; and when the Green Point light bears east, an E.N.E. course may be followed until the red light on Mouille Point comes open to the northward of Green Point light, bearing S.E. by S. This course will lead clear of the Vulcan Rock and the reefs that lie to the northward of it. The course may now be altered to S.E. by E. ½ E., which will carry them one mile outside Mouille Point, and within this distance no stranger should round the point at night. When the Mouille light bears S.S.W. a S. by E. course for the anchorage may be shaped, anchoring as soon as the Green Point light is shut in with the hillocks near Mouille Point, or with Mouille Point light bearing N.W. about one mile off, in from 6 to 8 fathoms. Small vessels may steer S. by E. ½ E. for the anchorage in 4 or 5 fathoms, and anchor with the Mouille light bearing about N.W. by N.

Ships bound for Table Bay from the northward must not take too great liberty with Robben Island on account of its light, for the Island is low, and the dangerous Whale Rock lies S. 17 W., only 1 4-10ths mile from the Lighthouse and 9-10ths of a mile from the nearest point of the Island.

Having sighted the Robben Island light, a ship should haul to the S.W., if the light bear anything to the westward of south, until the flashing light on Green Point bears S. by E. or S.S.E., when she may steer for it until Robben Island light bears N.E., when she may steer S.E. by E.; and when Mouille light bears S.S.W. steer, as before directed for the anchorage.