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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15 NOVEMBER, 1884. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 404.
The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1884.
Government of China.
FREDERICK STEWART,
for the Colonial Secretary.
Vigilant at Wenchow,
30th October, 1834.
HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO., No. 7.
1.--Shoal Ground in Gulf of Lian-tung.
Her Majesty's Ship "Espoir" reports having obtained soundings of 5 to 8 fathoms when passing ten to thirteen miles to the Eastward of the Cruizer Shallows.
Chart 1256, and China Sea Directory, Vol. III, pages 537 and 538, are affected hereby.
II.—Amping or Ampeng Light, Formosa.
The following information with regard to this Light has been received from Her Majesty's Ship "Fly
The light is a fixed white light in (approximately,) Lat. 23° 0′ 20′′ N., and Long. 120° 10′ 0′′ E., 60 feet above high water, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of 12 miles. It is exhibited from a mast 100 yards further seaward, and in front of the tree on the top of the monud in Zelandia Fort.
The light is of the Sixth Order, visible between the bearings of N.W. (round through North) to S. b E. Monsoon vessels can anchor anywhere with the light on a bearing between N. 62 E., and N. 73 E., in from 4 in the S.W. Monsoon, with it bearing N.E. in from 6 to 7 fathoms.
In the N.E.
to 5 fathoms ;
Amping Light was exhibited in 1882, but no Notice to Mariners has hitherto been issued. Charts 1262, 1968, and 2409, China Sea Directory, Vol III, p. 233, and Light List (China, &c.) p. 24, No. 2570, are affected hereby,
III.-Light on Sarucen's Irad (Takao) Formosa.
Her Majesty's Ship "Fly" reports that this light was put out on the 17th inst.
Charts 2376, 1908, China Sea Directory, Vol. III, page 235, Notice to Mariners, No. 37, 7th February, 1884, are affected hereby.
To the Commodore and the respectice Captains, Commanders, and
Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships and
Vessels employed on the China Station.
Government of Queensland.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 34 of 1884.
W. M. DOWELL,
Vice-Adwirul, and Commander-in-Chief,
NEW CHANNEL, GREAT SANDY ISLAND'STRAIT.
Notice is hereby given, that the channel northward of the "Shifting Sands," abreast the South White Cliffs, has shoaled to a depth of 5 feet at low-water, and that a channel with not less than 8 feet at low-water springs has opened out between the southern end of the " Shifting Sands" and the bank to the southward.
Directions;--Vessels from the southward, when nearing the black buoy off the new one-fathom bank, or Cottier's Patch, should bring into line two triangular red beacons at the South White Cliffs, and keeping them in that position, pass southward of the "Shifting Sands" and a black buoy to the eastward, and then haul up along the Great Sandy Island shore us formerly.
Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 13th September, 1884.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 35 of 1884.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmuster.
NEW REEF, WESTERN PACIFIC.
Notice is hereby given, that Mr. Robert Smith, master of the schooner "Heron," reports the existence of a coral reef in the following position, viz.:--
Latitude,. Longitude,......
This danger is about 3 miles in circumference, and has in the centre a dry saudbank.
Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 16th September, 1881.
3° 45′ South. .151° 30′ East.
G. P. HEATH, Commander, R.N.,
Portmaster.