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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MAY, 1885.
NEW ZEALAND.
MIDDLE ISLAND-SOUTII COAST,
(2) Bluff Harbour-Leading Lights on Middle Bank.
The Government of New Zealand has given Notice, that on 1st January 1885, a leading light would be exhibité ; each of the two dolphins erected as leading marks on Middle bank, Bluff harbour
The Eastern or Outer light is a fixed red light; the Western or Inner is a fixed green light.
NOTE. These lights should be brought in line when abreast the perch buoy off Te Waewae point, and kept so ut. the two red lights on the main wharf come in line, when the course may be altered either for the wharf, or to an anchor off it. Middle bank lights are exhibited for the purpose of enabling vessels to enter the harbour at night, and lead thro the worst part of the entrance channel-that is, from abreast the perch buoy to a cable's length above the light-ves Their line of direction will give, between the positions above mentioned, 30 to 33 feet at low water.
The lights are. intended to be used for any other part of the harbour or entrance.
(The bearing is Magnetic.
Variation 83° Easterly in 1885.)
By Command of their Lordships,
W. J. L. WHARTON,
Hydrographer.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 28th March, 1885.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:~~
(1) Danger point to cape Moreton, No. 1029; Moreton bay, No. 1670 a, : Also, Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, &c., 1885, pag. 42, No. 458; and Australia Directory, vol. II., 1879, pages, 74-80.
(2) Awarua or Bluff harbour, with plan of entrance, No. 2540: Also, Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, &c., 1885, No. 553; at: New Zealand Pilot, 1883, pages 281-283,
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The information contained in this Notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the chart when the ship is navigating the parts to which it refers.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE.
EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.
NOTICE No. 26.
SULU SEA.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.-ILO ILO STRAIT.-LIGHT.-From an iron lighthouse, 29 feet high, coloured blueish-gray, erected on the southern cliff of the largest islet of Siete Pecados group, northern part of Ilo Ilo strait is exhibited a fixed white light, showing a red sector through an arc of 20°, or between the bearings of N. 74° W. and N. 54° W. (covering Iguana bank); it is elevated 98 feet above the sea, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of about 11 miles. *
Directions.-Vessels entering Ilo Ilo strait from the eastward, and intending to pass northward of Siete Pecados, should round Dumangas point at the distance of one mile, and keep within the white light of Siete Pecados; avoiding the red sector. From abreast the light, a mid-channel course should be maintained to Cabugas point when the red light at Ilo Ilo may be steered for, keeping rather on the Guimaras shore.
To pass southward of Siete Pecados, the light should be approached bearing about N.W., avoiding the red sector, and also the bank extending about one mile north-eastward of Nabalos village. A small shoal lies in mid-channel about South from the light, which will be avoided by keeping more towards the light when it approaches the bearing of North. When westward of the light proceed as before directed.
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BASILAN GROUP.-Bolad (Bolod) Islands.-Banks.-The following banks have been found by the Spanish gunboat Mindoro, near the Bolads. †
A bank of sand and rock, 11⁄2 miles in extent in a north-east and south-west direction, lies with the West Boloi bearing N.E. E., distant 54 miles; and Bitinan island S.S.W. W. distant 8 miles.
Takut Sungu.--This bank originally placed 4 miles E.S.E. of East Bolad; has been found to be, 2 miles in extent in a north-east and south-west direction, 13 miles in breadth, and to consist of sand, gravel, and rock.. Near its south-wes extremity are rocks with a depth of one fathom; at 2 cables northward of these rocks is a patch of 24 fathoms, and at hait a mile eastward of these is a large patch with depths of from 4 to 5 fathoms, gravel.
There are depths of 8 fathoms close to the south-west side of the bank, 22 fathoms off the south side, and 11 to 13 on the north and north-east sides.
From the centre of the bank, East Bolad bears N.W. by W. † W., nearly 5 miles.
At 34 miles westward of Batomandi, which is probably the name of a rock situated 24 miles westward of Tataran island, lies a narrow bank, 2 miles in length north and south, with a least depth of 3 fathoms, sand and rock. Midway between this narrow bank and Takut Sungu, the depths are about 20 fathoms; and between the bank and Batomandi, fathoms.
Caution must be exercised when navigating in the vicinity of the Bolad islands.
* See Admiralty charts:-Philippine islands, No. 943; Sulu or Mindoro sea, No. 2,578; Port Ilo Ilo, No. 2,391; also Admiralty list of ligh: in South Africa, &c., 1885, page 20; also published in Notice to Mariners, No. 14 of 1885.
See Admiralty charts :-Sulu Archipelago, No. 928 and 2,576; and Philippine islands, No. 943. From Madrid Notice to Mariners, No. 171
of 1884.