THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 30, 1909.
TRANSLATION.
Notification No, 638 of Department of Communications.
KAWARA ZU BUOY AND OKINO-SU BUOY CHANGED.
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NOTICE is hereby given that Kawara-zu Buoy and Okino-su Buoy at Shiaku-seto, Inland Sea (see Notification No. 611 of Department of Communications, June 1909), have been changed into a lightbuoy cach :---
KAWARA-ZU LIGHTBUOY.
Construction and painting :-Iron frustum of cone painted black, surmounted by a lattice work supporting the lantern.
Height of light:-10 feet above the water.
Character of light-Pintsch's gas occulting white light,-light I second, eclipse 3 seconds.
Illuminated are:-The whole horizon.
Distance visible :- -4 nautical miles in clear weather
OKINO-SU LIGHTBUOY.
Construction and painting :--Iron frustum of cone painted red, surmounted by a lattice work supporting the lantern.
Height of light--10 feet above the water.
Character of light :-Pintsch's gas fixed red light. Illuminated are :— The whole horizon.
Distance visible :-:
-2 nautical miles in clear weather.
BARON GOTO SHIMPEI, Minister of State for Communications.
TOKYO, July 7th, 1909.
No. 401.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
HONGKONG OPIUM FARM.
Notice is hereby given that Sealed Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, till Noon on Tuesday, the 31st day of August, 1909, for the purchase of the privileges known as the Opium Farm established under "The Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891-1909 ", that is to say, the sole privilege of preparing Opium and of Selling, within the Colony, (including the New Territories), Opium so prepared, inclusive of the privilege of collecting dross and of preparing and dealing in Dross Opium, for three years from the 1st of March, 1910.
Full information as to conditions of tendering, etc., can be obtained from the Colonial Treasurer, and the conditions of tendering and form of grant have been published in Govern- ment Gazette as Notification No. 401 of the 2nd July, 1909.
2nd July, 1909.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary,