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A Buoy, painted black and to be known as the Hurst Rock Buoy, is now moored in 27 feet of water at low water of spring tides on the western edge of the Hurst Rock. From the Buoy, Single Tree bears S. 16° W., distant 10-4 cables. This Buoy marks the port side of the channel for vessels bound up river.
All bearings given are magnetic.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
THE MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 15th June, 1912.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
No. 533.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
South Channel Entrance to the Yangtze.
NOTICE is hereby given that recent soundings taken in the South Channel Entrance to the Yangtze, between the Tungsha Light-vessel and the Middle Ground Upper Buoy, show that in the channel, from Tungsha to 34 miles to the westward of it, there is a least depth of 16 to 17 feet at low water of extraordinary spring tides.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
THE MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 17th June, 1912.
No. 534.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
CHINA SEA.
REFERRING to Notices to Mariners Nos. 308, 378, and 473, notice is hereby given of the publication, for the information and guidance of all concerned, by the Statistical Depart- ment of the Inspectorate General of Customs, acting on the orders of the Chinese Govern- ment transmitted through the Inspector General of Customs, of the English text of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1910 Issue, which are now internationally operative, and of a Chinese translation thereof.
It should be noted that their acceptance by China refers only to Chinese vessels of foreign type, and that Chinese vessels of native type do not come under their operation.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs.
THE MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 20th June, 1912.
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W. FERD. TYLER, Coast Inspector.
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