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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH FEBRUARY, 1898.
It was also agreed that a letter be addressed to the Colonial Secretary informing him that No. 4 Health District had been declared infected with Small-pox and requesting that a Police Constable be appointed to assist the Sanitary Inspector of the District in question in making a house-to-house visitation, and advising that such Constable should receive a dollar a day in addition to his ordinary pay while employed on this work.
It was further agreed that a letter be addressed to the Colonial Secretary informing him that the Chinese are not availing themselves so freely as is desirable of the opportunities now open of being vaccinated, and advising that the Registrar General be requested to draw up a notice urging the Chinese Community to avail themselves of the opportunity of being vaccinated at the places where free vaccination is being carried out, and that such notice be freely distributed to Householders by means of the District Watchmen.
Adjournment.—The Board then adjourned.
Read and confirmed this 24th day of February, 1898.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.
J. M. ATKINSON,
Tresident.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 88.
The following are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th February, 1898.
J. H. STEWART Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL-MARINE DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS—No. 19. [First Publication.]
BAY OF BENGAL-CHITTAGONG COAST. Blue lights at Kutubdia lighthouse.
With reference to Notice to Mariners No. 209, dated 30th October, 1897, the Port Officer, Chittagong, has given further notice that on and after the 1st March next, blue lights will be burnt from the Kutubdia lighthouse every half hour. The light is visible 17 miles to seaward in clear weather.
B. P. CREAGH, Comdr., R.I.M.,
Port Officer of Calcuita.
Published for general information.
T. H. CLOWES, Under-Secretary, Marine Department.
CALCUTTA, the 24th January, 1898.
Government of China.
NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 318.
CHINA SEA.
KIUNGCHOW DISTRICT.
BUOYAGE OF HAINAN STRAIT.
Notice is hereby given that the Hainan Head Bank Buoy has been shifted about 2 cables to the south-westward of its former position, on account of the extension of the bank in that direction; and that it is now moored in 35 feet at low water of spring tides, with the summit of Hainan Bluff bearing about S. 65° W., magnetic, and distant about 17 cables.
DIRECTIONS.
With the Hainan Head Bank Buoy in the position above described, and the Riversdale Rock and the Hainan Reef Buoys in their advertised positions, vessels entering the South Channel from the eastward should pass, say, 2 cables N.E. of the Riversdale Rock Buoy, and then steer to pass, say, 1 cable S.W. of the Hainan Head Bank Buoy, taking care to guard against being set towards the shore, and remembering that it is safe to borrow towards the bauks on the starboard hand, of which the lead, which should be kept going, will give warning, while on the other side the bottom is rocky and uneven and the lead gives no warning. The Hainan Reef Buoy may be rounded at a distance of 1 cable or more at discretion.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 14th February, 1898.
A. M. BISBEE, Coast Inspector.