NOTICE TO MARINERSAUSTRALIA.—- BAST COAST. REVOLVING LIGHT AT PORT STEPHENS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 232, 17 September 1862, Page 6

NOTICE TO MARINERSAUSTRALIA.—- BAST COAST. REVOLVING LIGHT AT PORT STEPHENS.

' The Government of JN"ew South. Wales has given Notice, that on and after the first day of May 1862, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on Stephens point/at the south side of entrance to Port Stephens, east coast of Australia. The light is a revolving light, showing a bright face every minute, alternately white and red. It is placed at an e'evation of 126 feet above the mean level of the sea, and with the exception of being slightly intercepted by the islands on the north side of eutrance to the port, should be seen in all directions from seaward at a distance of 17 miles. The illuminating apparatus is cutoptric or by reflectors, of the second order. , The tower is circular, colored white, and 60 feet high, from base to the centre of the lantern. It stand on a knoll 66 feet above the sea, with Morna point bearing S.W. h W.; Eastern extremity of Broughton isles, N.B.s tf.; Little islet, £ E.; South head peak or Toomere, N.N.W. % \V.; in latitude 32 deg. 44 mm. 37 sec. S., long. 152 deg. 13 mm. East of Greenwich. When rounding the light it should notbeapprcached within the distance of one mile. All bearings are Magnetic. Variation 10 deg". 10 mm. East in 1862. By command of their Lordships, JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydographer. Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 11th June, 1862. This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts : Port Stepheus, No, 1070; Australia, General,NN t 1J42 ; Southern portion, Sheet 2, No. 27oi)i»j Eas Coast, Sheet 4, No. 2144; Indian Ocean, Nos 748e, and 2483; Pacific Ocean, Sheet £>, Nos. 2467 and 2653. Also Australia Lights List, No. 152.

Another Pkivilegb Cash.—A pretty case of " Privilege " h.w turned up in Tasmania; on this occasion, however, not between the press and parliament, but between parliament and one of its members. Our readers may gather from the llobart Town Mercury, the nature of the dispute :—" Mr. Merdith insulted the chair, when in the presence of the speaker he indulged in language which no other speaker in the whole circle of parliaments* would have stooped to the indignity of sitting in his chair to lu-ar. He was permitted to insult the premier and the leader of the house, when he called him a liar, and ostentatiously withdrew the word ' honorable' applied, as he declared, by a slip of the tongue, to the member for Queensborough^ He insulted the whole house when he described the eighteen members who voted against him as the preniiet's'dogs.' _And he insulted himself when he descended to the inetfable Tulgarity of the stable whistle when ther division bell wasrung.'l ■'••.:, ':•;■■■:. ■:':■■■■■ : .'■..'■ .. A,,'. ■.••:.....•.•.■.'•