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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH MARCH, 1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 105.
SUPREME COURT.
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The Right Honourable the EARL OF DERBY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, has been pleased to approve of the following appointment made by His Excellency WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.:
Mr. FRANCISCO HERMENEGILDO FERNANDES, to be Clerk and Usher.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 106.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICES.
The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1883.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
“Audacious,” at Hongkong,
7th March, 1883.
HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO. No. 29.
Captain BREEZE, of the P. & O. Steamer Lombardy reports to the Harbour Master, Shanghai "In November last I observed when passing between Tong Ting and Pihting what appeared to be a reef, extending fully a mile in a South-Easterly direction from South end of Tong Ting. The following true bearings were taken at the time:
"
Tong Ting Peak,. Video Peak,
S. extreme of reef,
.S. 61 E. .N. 36 E. .S. 73, E.
GEORGE O. WILLES, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
To the Commtador
Contains, Commanders
and Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships
and Vessels employed on the China Station.
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. [No. 39. ]
CHINA SEA DIRECTORY, VOL. IV.
NOTICE No. 15.
TSUGURU STRAIT; AND WEST COAST OF YEZO.
The following information relating to the eastern portion of Tsuguru strait; as also to the west coast of Yezo and off- lying islands, has been received from Lieutenant R. F. Hoskyn, commanding H.M. surveying vessel Flying Fish 1881-2.
[All Bearings are Magnetie. Variation in 1882: Tsuguru strait, east, 5° 30′ E.
NIPON ISLAND,-TSUGURU STRAIT EAST.*
Okusiri island 5° 50′ E.]
SIRIYA-SAKI-The north-east extremity of the island of Nipon is a narrow point trending in a N.N.E. direction, and the land for about a mile south of the extreme point is low and flat; it then gradually rises to a prominent hill with a double summit called Siriya-Yama (Whaleback), the highest part 1,321 feet, is about 2 miles S.S.W. of the point.
Rock. Three cables N.N.E. of the point is a conspicuous rock, 60 feet high; there is no passage between it and the point. The coast for about 4 miles south of the point on the eastern side, is rocky, and in the neighbourhood of Siriya- Yama precipitous, south of which a sandy beach extends for many miles.
Rattler Rock, awash at low water spring tides, lies 84 cables E.N.E. of Siriya-saki lighthouse.†
Ledge A narrow ledge of less than 20 fathoms runs in a N.N.E. direction for about 3 miles from Siriya-saki; the water deepens rapidly on the eastern side, but on the north and west sides the discent is more gradual. This ledge is usually covered with tide rips and overfalls, which at times are heavy.
* See Admiralty charts-Strait of Tsugar, No. 2441; Yezo island, No. 452; Nipon island, No. 2,347; Kuril islands, No. 2,405; Also, China Sea Directory, Vol. IV., 1873, pp. 199-200, 336-7; and Hydrographic Notice No. 16 of 1878.
† Charybdis rock. A rock was reported by H.M.S. Charibdis in August 1879, as having been seen to break twice, two miles E. by N. of Siriya-saki lighthouse. In this neighbourhood, depths of 31 to 32 fathoms were found by H.M.S. Flying Fish; the position was examined many times and has also been watched from the top of the lighthouse on a calm day, while a swell was running from the E.S.E. that broke in five fathoms. No danger outside the Rattler rock was known to the light-keeper at Siriya-saki, or to the fishermen who frequent this part of the coast.