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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1899.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION No. 708.
The following Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th December, 1899.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
NOTICE.
With reference to the notice contained in Government Notification No. 654 dated 25th November, 1899, it is hereby notified that the voting for the election of two Members of the Sanitary Board on Tuesday, 19th December, 1899, will continue until 7 p.m. instead of until 6 p.m. as previously notified.
A. SETH, Acting Registrar,
Supreme Court.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.No. 709..
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th December, 1899.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
HONGKONG HARBOUR.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
From the 13th instant until further notice (about 2 weeks), sunken obstructions will be laid to the North and South of Stone Cutters' Island.
The obstructed area to the North of Stone Cutters' Island will extend right across and will be within lines drawn from the most northern point of the island to the Watering Pier at Ly-che-kok, and from the Government Pier on the North shore near the Magazines in an N.Ñ.E. direction to the mainland.
To the South of Stone Cutters' Island the southern limit of the obstructed area will be a line between two buoys carrying red flags and about 500 yards North of the fairway. Lines true North from these buoys to Stone Cutters' Island will give the eastern and western limits of the obstructed
area.
Vessels and junks are prohibited from anchoring in the obstructed areas.
For purposes of navigation the sunken obstructions may be considered as reducing the depth of water shown on the chart by eleven feet.
R. MURRAY RUMSEY, Retd. Comdr, R.N., Harbour Master, &c.
Harbour Department, Hongkong, 9th December, 1899.