1126 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETIE, 4TH NOVEMBER, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 402.
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
NOTICE.
The Annual Sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' Room. at the Magistracy, on Thursday, the 16th day of November, A.D. 1893, at 11 A.M., for the purpose of considering applications for Spirit Licences for the year 1893-1894.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 2nd November, 1893.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 403.
The following is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 31st October, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Government of Japan.
NOTIFICATION No. 227 oF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
HIRAISO ROCK, AKASHI STRAITS.
BUOY AND TEMPORARY RED LIGHT AND FLAG TO BE WITHDRAWN AND A LIGHTED BEACON ESTABLISHED.
Notice is hereby given that a BEACON has been ERECTED on the SUNKEN ROCK HIRAISO, Akashi Straits, Inland Sea, from which a FIXED RED LIGHT will be exhibited on and after the 11th November, 1893; and that on the same date, the Buoy hitherto moored to mark the position of the Rock and also the Temporary Red Light and Flag exhibited pending the construction of the Beacon, WILL BE WITHDRAWN.
The Beacon is built of Concrete, Circular in horizontal section, painted Black, and is surmounted by a small Lantern. It is erected where the rock is covered 5 feet in Low Water Spring Tides.
The elevation of the Light above the level of High Water Spring Tides will be 39 feet. It will illuminate the whole horizon, and in clear weather will be seen from a distance of 3 Nautical Miles.
The cross-bearings taken from the Beacon are as follow :---
Uzu-saki
Yesaki Lighthouse
Ichinotani Yama, South peak
..S. 34° 53′ W. true.
.S. 75° 56′ W. true.
..N. 52° 51′ E. true.
Note.-The Light will be kept BURNING DAY and NIGHT by self-feeding apparatus without attendance of a keeper. Should the Light go out by accident, there may be some delay before relighting it.
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COUNT KURODA KIYOTAKA,
Minister of State for Communications.
Tokio, October 10th, 1893.
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