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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH MARCH, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 134.
The following are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th March, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Government of China.
NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 253.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
SOUTHERN ENTRANCE TO THE YANGTZE.
Notice is hereby given that on account of alterations which have taken place in the bed of the river, as disclosed by a recent survey, the following changes have been made in the marking of the channel.
The Lightship Kiutoan has been shifted to a position off the south-eastern end of Blockhouse Shoal from which the Kiutoan Beacon bears S. 6840 W., distant about 3 miles.
The Middle Ground Lower Buoy (No. 2 in the published List for 1891) has been shifted to a spot from which House Island Surveying Beacon bears N. 11° W., distant about 3 miles, where it marks the port side of the channel entering. This Buoy is now painted black, and surmounted by a black spherical cage.
The Middle Ground Upper Buoy (No. 3 in the published List for 1891) has been shifted to a spot from which Kiutoan Beacon bears S. 12° W., distant about 2 miles, where it marks the port side of the channel entering and the north-western end of the long tongue or shoal into which the former Middle Ground has developed. This Buoy is painted black, and surmounted by a black cylindrical cage.
A red Buoy, surmounted by a black spherical cage, [with small Kiutoan Beacon S. 87° W., distant about 2 formed off the south-western side of Blockhouse Shoal.
All bearings are magnetic.
to be known as the South-east Knoll Buoy, has been moored miles] off the south-easternmost of a line of knolls which have This Buoy marks the starboard side of the channel entering.
CAUTION.
Vessels should not attempt to pass to the north-eastward of the Kiutoan Lightship in her present position.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 3rd March 1892.
A. M. BISBEE,
Coast Inspector.
Government of South Australia.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 1 of 1892.
Notice is hereby given that the WHITE LIGHT now exhibited on the MENINGIE JETTY (Lake Albert) WILL BE DISCONTINUED after the night of the 29th FEBRUARY, 1892.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, January 28th, 1892.
ARTHUR SEARCY,
Secretary Marine Board.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 2 of 1892.
AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST.
HOWARD CHANNEL, CLARENCE STRAIT.
Mariners are hereby informed that a report has been received from Port Darwin to the effect that the Black Buoy is missing from the N.W. end of the "Henry Ellis" Reef, Howard Channel, Clarence Strait.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, February 2nd, 1892.
ARTHUR SEARCY,
Secretary Marine Board.