The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates.’ See Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

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NEW ZEALAND—FOVEAUX STRAIT.

REVOLVING LIGHT ON DOG ISLAND.

The Colonial Government at New Zealand has given Notice, that during the month of April, 1865, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on Dog Island, south-east of Bluff Harbour, Middle Island, Foveaux Strait.

The light will be a revolving white light, attaining its greatest brilliancy every half minute. It will be elevated 150 feet above the mean level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen at a distance of 18 miles.

The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the first order.

The tower is of gray stone, 118 feet high from base to vane, and stands in lat. 46° 39′ 35″ S., long. 168° 26′ East of Greenwich.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts: — New Zealand, No. 1212; Sheets 5, 11, Nos. 2553, 2054; and No. 2588. Also, New Zealand Pilot, pp. 117, 212.

COOK’S STRAITS.

FIXED LIGHT ON MANA ISLAND.

Also, that during the month of March, 1865, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on Mana Island, off the entrance to Porirua Harbour, on the eastern shore of Cook Strait.

The light will be a fixed white light, at an elevation of about 450 feet above the mean level of sea, and in clear weather should be seen at a distance of 29 miles.

The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the second order.

The tower is 70 feet high from base to vane, and stands on the north-west part of the island, in lat. 41° 5′ S., long. 174° 48′ East of Greenwich.

By command of their Lordships,

Geo. Henry Richards,

Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty,

London, 1st March, 1865.

IMPOUNDED in the Invercargill Public Pound, Tuesday, 30th May, 1865, one bay gelding pony, no visible brand, five years old.

If not claimed, will be sold at the Pound here, on Tuesday, the 11th day of July next, at noon.

William Cruickshank,

Poundkeeper.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of Daniel Brosnan, of the Nokomai, in the Province of Otago, a Debtor; and in the matter of the Petition of James Spence, of Invercargill, in the Province of Southland, being Creditor of the said Daniel Brosnan, to the extent of not less than Fifty Pounds, and in the matter of the “Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862.”

TAKE NOTICE that the above-named Debtor has, with the concurrence of the above-named James Spence, presented and filed his Petition for the Sequestration of his Estate, for the benefit of all his Creditors, according to the provisions of the “Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862,” and that the said Petition has been accepted by His Honor the Judge, who has appointed Wednesday, the twelfth day of July, A.D. 1865, at Ten o’clock in the Forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Invercargill, for the hearing of the said Petition, at which time and place all parties concerned are to attend.

Dated this eighth day of June, 1865.

S. M. South,

Dee-street, Invercargill,

Solicitor for the said Petitioner.

Printed for the Provincial Government by Hargrave & Co., Dee-street, Invercargill.