THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1893. 137
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 68.
The following is published.
By Command,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th February, 1893.
Government of China.
NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 24 (SPECIAL).
CHINA SEA..
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
WOOSUNG INNER BAR.
Feima Channel: Establishment of Marks and Lights for, and means for signalling the depth of water.
Notice is hereby given that on the 15th instant the temporary marks for the Feima Channel, described in Notice to Mariners, No. 23 (Special), dated the 14th January 1893, will be replaced by two permanent ones, viz. :-A low pole with a pyramidal top near the river bank and a high pole with a rectangular top further inland, and that from sunset to sunrise a Red light will be exhibited on the high pole and a White light on the low one.
The difference between the depth of water in the line of the Feima Channel marks and the depth in the line of the old Woosung Inner Bar marks will also be shown, as under, both at the Woosung Lighthouse and on the higher of the old Bar Marks; and this difference must be added to the depth shown at the Woosung Inner Bar Station, to obtain the depth in the Feima Channel.
Difference
in Feet.
Northern side of Woosung Lighthouse and of High Bar Mark.
Southern side of Woosung Lighthouse and of High Bar Mark.
1
2
3
4
:
LO
5
:
6
7
8
Half-feet will be indicated by a single ball hoisted on a staff on the parapet of the Woosung Lighthouse and on the top of the higher of the old Bar Marks.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 13th February, 1893.
A. M. BISBEE,
Coast Inspector.