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No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $250 as a pledge of the bonâ fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if such person refuses to carry out his tender, if accepted.
The successful tenderer will be required to sign a formal contract in the usual form of Government Contracts and to give security for the sum of $5,000 in a bond with two sureties conditional for the due and faithful performance of the terms of such contract.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
For further information and forms of tender apply to the Railway Head Office, Kow- loon.
H. P. WINSLOW,
Manager, Railway.
15th October, 1915.
No. S. 244.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 749 of Department of Communications.
Inland Sea.
NOTICE is hereby given that the light of Taka-shima Lighthouse on Taka-shima, at the entrance to Yobuco Harbour, Province of Hizen, shall be withdrawn on about the middle of October for the purpose of re-establishing the light tower and the following temporary light be shown at the same time :-
Note
Description:- Character of light:
Power:
The temporary light.
Unpainted, wooden, lattice work. Fixed white.
80 candles.
Visible distance :- 9 nautical miles in clear night.
the dangerous reefs:-Usu-shima, is not covered with green ray; Hira-se
and Ori-se are not covered with red ray.
KATSUNDO MINOURA,
TOKYO, September 20th, 1915.
Minister of State for Communications.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
(Harbour Improvement Commission.)
No. 3 OF 1915.
REFERRING to Harbour Notification No. 2 of 1915, (issued on the 4th ultimo) re Dredging Operations for the purpose of constructing a breakwater.
Notice is hereby given that a Gas-lighted Buoy painted Black showing an occulting white light, every 4 seconds, (4 seconds light, 4 seconds dark), has been moored. Tower Hill Light bearing South 3° West Magnetic, distant 4,650 feet.
Masters of Vessels are when nearing and passing the dredger to go as Slowly as possible.
The Dredger will exhibit by day a Red Flag and by night a Red Light over a White Light vertically.
Approved:
A. SUGDEN,
Commissioner of Customs,
CUSTOM HOUSE,
CHEFOO, 30th September, 1915.
THOS. WRIGHT,
Harbour Master.
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