THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD JUNE, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 200.
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Under instructions from the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint WILLIAM CHATHAM, Esquire, to be an Executive Engineer in the Public Works Department from the expiration of his agreement on the 22nd instant.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th May, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 201.
His Excellency the Governor, with the consent of the Honourable the Colonel Commanding, has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant W. C. A. NICHOLSON, Royal Artillery, to be Adjutant to the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 202.
Notice is hereby given that CHEANG I'KAN and WONG YUET-TING, carrying on business under the style or firm of Hang Chun Yuen, of Hongkong, have complied with the requirements of Ordinances 16 of 1873, and 8 of 1886, for the registration in this Colony of their Mark as applied to a certain Medicine Wine known as the Wai Shang Medicine Wine" and that the same has been duly registered.
By Command,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st May, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 203.
The following Report from the Officer in Charge of the Cruiser Petrel, with reference to the discovery of a shoal near Abai or the West Coast of North Borneo, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st May, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
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SECRETARY TO GOVERNOR,
B. N. B. Govт. S. C. Petrel, May 12th, 1893.
SIR,-During the Petrel's cruise near Abai on the 13th April, I discovered a shoal lying North 25 degrees West from Usukau Island and distance from Usukau Island 3 miles. I examined the shoul carefully and found it to be about 3 cables in length with a depth of 4 fathoms except in one place where I found a pinnacle rock with only eleven feet of water at low water spring tides.
The position of the shoal is in
Latitude.... Longitude
6°26′ 30′′ North .116° 17′ 45′′ East.
From the shoal Nob Island Mautauau bears North six degrees East and Usukau Island South twenty- five degrees West.
As this shoal is near the ordinary track of vessels trading on the Borneo Coast it ought to be reported as soon as possible.
Your obedient Servant,
GEO. MAYNE, Officer in Charge Cruiser “ Petrel."
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