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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26гH NOVEMBER, 18^8.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 538.
The following further list of persous licensed to shoot and take Game within the Colony is published for general information:-
47. JOHN A. MACKAY. 48. JOHN THURBURN,
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 539.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
There is a vacancy at the Government Civil Hospital for an educated Chinese youth as a Student Apothecary. Candidates must be prepared to enter into an agreement to serve a three-years' pupilage. The salary will be $120 per annum with an annual increase of $24 until the maximum of $168 per annum is reached.
The student will be required to reside in the Hospital when necessary.
Applications covering certificates of age, character, and health, will be receive up to noon on Saturday, the 10th December, 1898, addressed to the Colonial Secretary.
For further particulars, apply at the Government Civil Hospital between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 26th November, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 540.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following are published.
By Command,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1898.
Government of Australia.
NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 32 of 1898.
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.-LIGHT ON EAST CAPE ISLAND, NEAR EAST CAPE, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND.
Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 30th September, 1898.
Notice is hereby given that about the month of August, 1999, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse now being erected on East Cape Island, near East Cape, in latitude 37° 40′ S., and longitude 178° 36′ E., as measured from the Admiralty chart. The light will be 362 ft. above the level of the sea at high water, and will be a second-order dioptric light, revolving to show a white flash at intervals of every ten seconds.
The light will be seen seaward over an are of 280 degrees of the horizon (or as far round as the land will allow), and in ordinary clear weather it will be visible twenty-two nautical miles from the deck of a vessel 15 ft. above sea-level.
Further particulars, together with the date of lighting, will be given in a future notice.
Chart, &c., affected: No. 2527, Sheet III., N.Z.: "New Zealand Pilot," Chapter iii., pages 147 and 148.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 6 of 1898.
AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST.
HOWARD CHANNEL, CLARENCE STRAIT.
Mariners are hereby informed that the Black Buoy has disappeared from the Henry Ellis Reef.
This affects Admiralty Chart No. 1095.
See also "Australia Directory, volume 111., 3rd edition (1895), page 131.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaida, October 13th, 1898.
WM. HALL-JONES.
THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President Marine Board,