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FROM the 15th April, the fog signal at Waglan Island will be altered from fog guns to an explosive signal, the intervals between the explosions remaining as before.
BASIL TAYLOR, Commander, R.N.,
Harbour Master, &c.
HONGKONG, 26th March, 1913.
THE Master of the Tenyo Maru reports having passed two bamboos about 40 feet long and one spar about 20 feet long, evidently attached to some sunken object. Spar sometimes standing upright, sometimes lying flat on the water, on the 27th March, 1913-
Lat. 24° 17′ 30′′ N. Long. 118°.46' 30" E.
HONGKONG, 28th March, 1913.
BASIL TAYLOR, Commander, R.N.,
Harbour Master, &c.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION No. 5.
WHEREAS information has been received that plague is endemic in Hongkong and many ports in China, it is hereby notified by me, in accordance with clause 162 of the Law on Navigation in Siamese Waters of R. S. 124, that, until further notice, all vessels arriving in Siamese Waters from Hongkong or any port in China, shall stop at the quarantine anchorage at the Island of Koh Phra for inspection, and there remain until released by the Health Officer.
NARES VORARIDDHI,
Minister of Local Government.
BANGKOK, 29th April, 1906.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 387.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
NORTH CHANNEL ENTRANCE TO THE YANGTZE.
Reported Shoal Water.
NOTICE is hereby given that Captain Walker, of the S.S. Liangchow, reports having obtained 16 feet at low water of neap tides-corresponding to 12 feet at low water of spring tides in the neighbourhood of the 3-fathom patch, shown on British Admiralty Chart No. 1,602, and from the centre of which Shaweishan Lighthouse bears N. 69° E., magnetic, distant 5.7 miles.
W. FERD. TYLER,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 17th March, 1913.
No. 7 of 1913.
Coast Inspector.
SOUTH BOUNDARY PILLAR -COCHIN,
AN Iron Beacon showing a frontage to sea of a white painted corrugated iron sheet 12 feet by 3 feet-twenty-three feet above high water-has been erected in a position bearing 260° (S. 80° W. T.) 77 feet from the old Cochin Masonry South Boundary Pillar which is at present hidden by cocoanut trees.
W. B. HUDDLESTON, Commander, R.I.M.,
Offg. Presidency Port Officer.
PRESIDENCY PORT OFFICE,
MADRAS, 5th February, 1913.