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December 15: Approving of plans of Kaihu Valley Bailway Company's bridge across Kaih» •Creek. December 22 : Approving of plans of bridge across north branch of Waimakariri Biver. January 5 : Approving of Sir John Coode's plans of harbour works at Westport. January 17 : Approving of plans of W. Brownlee's wharf, Pelorus Biver. January 17 : Licensing W. Brownleo to use portion of foreshore of Pelorus Biver for construction of a wharf. January 17 : Approvingof plans of wharf at Timaru. January 17 : Approving of plans of Mr. Barlow's fish-pond at Matakohe, Kaipara. January 17 : Approving of Sir John Coode's plans of harbour works at Greymouth. January 24 : Approving of plans of bridge and landing-stage, Aw Tanui Biver. February 23: Approving of plans of W. Brownlee's bridge across tidal creek of Pelorut Biver. February 23 : Approving of plans of boom across Kaimarama Creek, Mercury Bay. February 23 : Licensing Mercury Bay Timber Company to use portion of foreshore of Kaimarama Creek for construction of booms. February 23 : Approving of plans of extension of outer tee of Queen's Wharf, Wellington. March 5: Approving of plans of Contract No. 1, extension of south breakwater, Greymouth. March 5 : Approving of plans of works at Orawaiti overflow, Buller Biver. March 5 : Approving of plans of works at Buller Belief-channel. March 5: Approving of plans of railway-siding on foreshore at Anderson's Bay, Otago Haibour. March 5 : Licensing Dunedin, Forbury, and Peninsula Bailway and Tramway Company to use portion of foreshore at Anderson's Bay for construction of siding. March 11: Approving of plans of temporary wharf in lagoon at Westport. March 11: Approving of plans of wharf at Endeavour Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound. March 11: Licensing E. H. Crease and others to use portion of foreshore at Endeavour Inlet for erection of wharf. March 11: Vesting management of Port Albert Wharf in Bodney County Council. March 11: Vesting management of Bussell Wharf in Bay of Islands County Council. March 27 : Vesting management of Havolock Wharf in Pelorus Boad Board. Notices to Mariners. —Fifty-five Notices to Mariners were issued during the year; of these, twenty-three related to matters within the colony. The following is a list of them: — Kaipara. —North Head flagstaff shifted. Kaipara. —Banks forming below Tauhara Creek. Lyttelton Harbour.—Yards to be braced up, to avoid collision with electric lights. Greymouth.—Beacon on north edge of south training-wall. Waimakariri.—Depth of water on bar. Flagstaff removed to South Spit. Channel up rivor , marked with buoys. Timaru Harbour. —Position of wreck of " Duke of Sutherland." Now Plymouth.—Alteration of position of lights. Bay of Islands.—Buoys placed near entrauce to Port Tepuna and Kerikeri Bivar. Bay of Islands.—Light on railway wharf, Opua. Buller Biver.—Bemoval of front up-river beacon. Waitapu.—Leading lights. Kaipara Heads Lighthouse. —Preliminary notice. Greymouth.—Light on end of staging, wharf extension. Buller Biver. —Bar and danger signals at night. Picton. —Stumps of piles of old boat-wharf above bottom.Oamaru.—Leading lights on beacons, and night signals to steamers. French Pass.—Exhibition of light. Westport. —Lights on dredge. Kaipara Heads.—Exhibition of light. Waitapu.—Alteration of colour of leading lights. Oamaru.— Be dredging operations. Bay of Islands.—Buoy on rock near Opua Wharf. Bluff.—Exhibition of leading lights. Light Dues. —The sum of £8,526 Os. Bd. was collected as light dues during the year, this being £332 Os. Bd. more than was collected during the previous financial year. No amount has this year been paid to the credit of light dues by the General Post Office on account of light dues on the San Francisco mail steamers, or on account of the direct steamers, all of which vessels are, when they carry an English mail, exempted from paying light dues. A fresh Order in Council fixing light dues to be collected at Kaipara and New Plymouth was issued last year. Dues are only collected in respect of foreign-going and intercolonial trading vessels, no light dues having been collected on coasters since the Ist April, 1880. Government Vessels. —The " Hinemoa " has as usual been employed on special service. It was found necessary last October to re-tube her boilers, and it is anticipated that it will soon be necessary to renew them. The "Stella" has been continuously employed attending to lighthouses, buoys, beacons, &c. Her services have, in addition, been made available as far as possible for other departments of the Government service. She made a special trip from Port Chalmers to Lyttelton, having the torpedo-boat in tow. A new funnel has been supplied, a fog-horn fitted, and sundry