THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JULY, 1888.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 325. The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th July, 1888.
Government of China.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 221.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT. Woosung Inner Bar Marks.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
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NOTICE is hereby given that, in cousequence of the washing away of the river bank, the Woosung Inner Bar Marks have been shifted about 95 feet to the northward, to positions where they indicate a line bearing about N. 84° 30′ W., magnetic.
Vessels entering-on this line-should port about half a point when abreast of the mouth of the Bar Creek (below the telegraph cable hut), in order to get the deepest water on the upper part of the Bar.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 3rd July 1888.
FOOCHOW DISTRICT,
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS No. 4.
E. V. BRENAN, Acting Coast Inspector.
Rees Bank: extension of.
Notice is hereby given that No. 3 Fairway Buoy has been removed a cable to the northward of its former position, in consequence of the extension of the Rees Bank. It is now moored in the Fairway Channel in 64 fathonis at low water, spring tides.
Approved:
R. B. MOORHEAD, Commissioner of Customs.
Custom House, Foochow, 6th July, 1888.
S. PARKHILL,
Harbour Muster.
HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO: No. 26.
CHINA.
AUDACIOUS AT YOKOHAMA, 22nd June, 1888.
Chusan Archipelago.-A sunken rock has lately been discovered by H.M.S. Rambler, near the Rugged Islands, in the Chusan Archipelago. It has been named the Huxley Rock, and has 2ft. over it at L.W.S. From it, the summit of Tayung Island bears N. 26° W., distant 8 cables. The highest and left hand peak of Tripoint Island, just open of the South point of the S.E. bay of Tayung Island bearing N. 19° W., leads 3 cables E. of Huxley Rock.
Chart affected No. 1199.
Yung River H.M.S. Swift reports that from information received from a Ningpo Pilot, the shoalest water in the Yung River (9ft. at L.W.S.) is immediately below Pawnbrokers, and not 1 mile below it. Caution is necessary when pass- ing Sesostris Rock, the buoy marking which, appears to be very slackly moored.
Chart affected No. 1592; China Sea Directory Vol. iii, p. 100.
Formosa.-Relung.—The clause relating to Kelung, Formosa, in Hydrographic Memo. No. 22, of 6th December, 1887, is hereby cancelled. H.M.S. Heroine reports the existence of a rock near Kelung Island, with 15ft. water on in; S. 29o W. 3 mile from N.W. Rock. From 5 to 7 fathoms was obtained within 1 cables of it.
Chart affected No. 2618; China Sea Directory Vol. iii. p. 207.
To the Commodore, and the respectice Captains, Commanders, and
Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed on the China Station.
NOWELL SALMON, Vice-Admiral, and Commander-in-Chief.
The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Admiralty
Instructions. 1887. Navigation and Pilotage. p. 368.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 145 of the year 1888. ] AUSTRALIA-SOUTH COAST.
LACEPEDE BAY.
(1.) Sunken Rocks Reported south-Westward of Nation Rock und North-Westward of Cupe Jaffa. Information has been received from the Marine Board of South Australia, dated 9th January 1888, of the existence of the following sunken rocks, lying respectively south-westward of Nation rock, and north-westward of cape Jaffa, Lacepede bay, South Australia:-