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(red) could be removed to Tory Channel entrance, where a light of this order and description is much required, and will complete the lighting of this portion of Cook Strait. If a light be placed on Cape Kidnappers, tho light lately ordered for Napier Bluff will bo unnecessarily powerful for that site. We may here remark that the necessity for these alterations seems to us to have arisen from tho want of following some such general system as is now proposed. We recommend that in all future lights, lamps to burn Petroleum oil in lieu of Colza be supplied to the illuminating apparatus: this will result ia a great saving in the annual cost of each light, without any diminution of power; and at ports where only small lights are necessary, the harbour master could attend to them without assistance. We are unable to give more than the cost of the lantern and apparatus delivered in New Zealand, as the total cost of erection will depend upon the accessibility of the sites proposed, the whole of which we recommend should be carefully surveyed before any further steps bo taken, as it may be found upon examination that in some instances an adjacent locality may bo found more suitable than the site now proposed, accessibility of position greatly affecting both the cost of erection and that of maintenance. It is of importance that, where it is practicable, lights should be placed seaward of a danger ; that they should show all round seaward; that their elevation should not exceed 200 feet unless unavoidable; and that lighthouses should always bo coloured so as to present the greatest contrast with the background. Accompanying this report, we beg to forward a chart, shewing in colours the various lights proposed, and their situation, as well as the position of those already erected. La considering this question of Lighting the Coast and Harbours of the Colony, we have been guided in our decisions by the information derived from careful perusal of Mr. Alan Stephenson's "Rudimentary Treatise on Lighthouses, &c.;" Messrs. Chance Brothers and Co.'s Tariff of Dioptric Apparatus ; and the Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Management of Light Buoys and Beacons, 1861. R. Johnson. R. A. Edwin, 3rd April, 1873. Commander, R.N.

LIST OF PROPOSED COASTAL LIGHTS.

'ART No. Name of Place. Description of Light. Cost of Apparatus and Lantern landed in New Zealand. Remarks. 1 2 Cape Maria Tan Dieman jMoko Ilinou Islands, llauraki Gulf Cape Farewell Bugged Island, Foveaux Strait Snares Islands Nugget Point Dog Island Flashing: white, every ten seconds Revolving: red and white, every minuto £ 3,550 3,450 An important position. 4 Revolving : white, every two minutes ... Revolving: white, every two minutes ... 3,450 3,450 5 0 7 Revolving : white, every minute Fixed : wliito Revolving: white, every half-minuto 3,450 Already erected. Already erected. Part II. 8 9 10 11 Capo Saunder9 ... Banks Peninsula, Flat Point Capo Campbell ... Capo Palliser Revolving: white, every minute ... Revolving : white, every minute ... Revolving: white, every minute ... Revolving : white, every two and a half minutes Revolving: white, overy half-minute Revolving: white, every two minutes ... 2,350 2,350 2,350 Already erected. 12 13 Capo Kidnappers Portland Island 1,550 2,350 Third order. Probably with red sector showing over the Bull Bock. 14 16 16 17 18 East Cape Island Motiti Island, Bay of Plenty Cuvier Island Tiri Tiri Sandspit, Firth of Thames Revolving: white, every minute ... Flashing: white, every ten seconds Revolving: white, every half minute Fixed : white Fixed: red and white 2,350 1,550 2,350 Third order. Already erected. Sixth order : erected by Provincial Government, Auckland. 19 20 21 22 88 24 Cape Brett North Cape Grannet Island ... Capo Egmont Mana Island Cape Farewell Sandspit... Revolving : white, overy two minutes Revolving : white, every minute ... Revolving: white, every minute ... Revolving: white, every half-minute Fixed : white Revolving : white, every minute ... 2,350 2,350 1,550 2,350 Third order. Already erected. Already erected: red sector over Sandspit end. 28 86 27 Capo Foulwind ... Cascade Point Chalky Island, Dusky Bay Revolving: white, every minute ... Revolving: white, every two minutes ... Revolving: white, every half-minuto 2,350 I 2,350 2,350