Strong Winds. —We strongly recommend the Government to place a Buoy, with a heavy anchor, some little distance beyond low water mark, with a shackle on the top ; so that in such weather as we have experienced the last two or three days, vessels driving from their anchors, or parting from their cables, could carry out a warp to the Buoy, and warp off from the shore. The Harbour-Master will see the necessity of this, as owing to a warp being carried out by the natives to two vessels, belonging to Captain Smale3 and Mr. Jackson, they were saved from beating to pieces under the Bluff at Belle Vue House. Small vessels, in case of losing an anchor, cannot always procure one in time to save loss. Land Sale. —We perceive by an advertisement in this day's paper, that Messrs. Mason and Paton have received instructions to sell a few Allotments in New and Hobson Streets, at an upset price of Seven Pounds an Allotment!
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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 61, 19 March 1842, Page 2
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