Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, November 8, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Notice.

By his Honor’s command,

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

DEVAAR LIGHTHOUSE.

THE Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses hereby give notice that a Lighthouse has been built upon the Island of Devaar, at the entrance to the Bay of Campbeltown, in the County of Argyll, the light of which will be exhibited on the night of Monday, 10th July, 1854, and every night thereafter, from the going away of daylight in the evening, till the return of daylight in the morning.

The following is a specification of the lighthouse, and the appearance of the light, by Mr. David Stevenson, Engineer to the Commissioners:—

The Lighthouse is in N. lat. 55 deg. 25 min. 45 sec., and W. long. 5 deg. 32 min. 16 sec.

The Devaar Light will be known to Mariners as a Revolving Light, which shows a bright white light once every half-minute.

The Light is elevated about 120 feet above the level of high water of ordinary spring tides, and may be seen at the distance of about 15 nautical miles, and at lesser distances according to the state of the atmosphere; to a nearer observer, in favourable circumstances, the light will not wholly disappear between the intervals of greatest brightness. The arc illuminated by this light extends from about S ¼ E by compass, to about W b N and faces northwards.

And the Commissioners hereby further give notice, that her Majesty by Order in Council, dated 29th December 1853, was pleased to order and direct that, upon the erection and lighting of the said Light upon the Island of Devaar, there should be paid, in respect thereof,

for every vessel belonging to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (the same not belonging to her Majesty, or being navigated wholly in ballast), and for every Foreign vessel which by any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, Convention or Treaty, shall be privileged to enter the Ports of the United Kingdom, upon paying the same Duties of Tonnage as are paid by British vessels, the same not being navigated wholly in ballast, which shall pass or derive benefit from the said light, that is, which shall arrive at or depart from any Port or Place in the Bay or Loch of Campbeltown, if the burthen of the same shall not exceed Fifty tons, Sixpence, and if the same shall exceed Fifty tons, for each additional Fifty tons, or part of Fifty tons, Sixpence.

And her Majesty was further pleased to order and direct, by the said order in Council, that in respect of the said Light on Devaar, and in respect of another light in Loch Ryan, on the south side of the Basin of the Clyde erected by the said Commissioners, there shall be paid by every Vessel before described, and under the exemptions aforesaid, which shall navigate on a distinct voyage within the Great Basin of the Clyde, bounded by a line drawn from the Point of Corsewall to Glenarm in Ireland, on the south-east, and from another line drawn from the Mull of Kintyre to Fairhead, in Ireland, on the north-west, and on all other sides by the coasts of Ireland and Scotland surrounding the said Basin, a similar rate of Toll to that above set forth, being at the rate of Threepence for each of the said Lights.

Double the said respective Tolls for every Foreign vessel not privileged as aforesaid.

Provided always, that vessels arriving at or departing from any port or place within Loch Ryan, or within Campbeltown Loch, and paying the rates for such respective voyages, shall not in addition be liable in payment of the rates for navigating the basin of the Clyde.

The above rates are, by another Order in Council, declared to be subject to the following abatements on payment:

• Over-sea Vessels, Twenty-five per cent.
• Coasting Vessels, Ten per cent.

By order of the Board,
ALEX. CUNINGHAM, Sec.

Northern Lighthouse Office,
Edinburgh, 1st June, 1854.

Printed at the “Spectator” Office.