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The Tienching is a steel vessel, 83 feet in length, painted red. The light, which is. exhibited from a lantern carried by an iron trestle structure, is dioptric, of the sixth order, showing an occulting white light every 3 seconds, thus :---
Light
Eclipse -
0'3 second, 2.7 seconds.
The centre of the light is 35 feet above the water, and the light should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 10 nautical miles. A black drum encircles the trestle below the lantern as a daymark. During foggy or thick weather a gong will be beaten
at short intervals.
If the Light-vessel is driven from her station, the usual light will not be shown, but a fixed red light will be exhibited from each end of the vessel during the night and a red flag hoisted by day.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 12th November, 1919.
H. E. HILLMAN, Deputy Coast Inspector
(for Coast Inspector).
The Government of the Philippine Islands Department of Commerce and Communications. BUREAU OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
MANILA.
November 13, 1919.
NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 573.
Subic Bay.
THE Red nun, No. 4 Buoy on Shoals off Cubi Point, at Subic Bay, has been dis- continued and replaced by an Acetylene Gas Buoy, same position, showing one white. flash every three seconds.
(See No. 19, List of Buoys and Beacons, etc., 1918.)
FIDEL A. REYES, Acting Director.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 338.-It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in duplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for the supply of labour for Watering the Streets", will be. received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 25th day of Novem- ber, 1919, for the supply of labour for Watering the Streets in the City of Victoria for one year ending 28th February, 1921.
In dry weather one Chinese foreman and not more than twenty able-bodied coolies. will be required every day and they will be required to work eight hours a day.
Tenderers must produce a receipt that they have deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $100 as a pledge of the bona fides of their tender, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if any tenderer fails or refuses to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
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