THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH APRIL,1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 157.
The following Hydrographic Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th April, 1883.
W. H. MARSH,
385
Colonial Secretary.
APPROACHES TO HONGKONG. WEST LAMMA CHANNEL.
Rock.-A rock which dries 3 feet at low water spring tides lies off the East Point of Chung Chau. From it. East Point of Chung Chau bears West distant 3.1 cables. S.E. Point of Chung Chau bears S. 60 W. distant 6.3 cables. This position differs 115 yards in a S. 67° 16° E., direction from that given on the chart. A sunken rock, with 6 feet on it at low water spring tides, lies 75 feet S. 39°10' E. from the rock which dries, and is about 10 feet square; and another lies about 200 feet to the S. W. of the same rock.
Wreck.- The wreck of the 'Minard Castle lies in 7 fathoms, and from it, East Point of Chung Chau bears N. 47 W. distantTM4.2 cables. S.E. Point of Chung Chau bears West, distant 5.4 cables. Rock which drics bears N. 1 E. distant 3.0 cables.
Rock.-A sunken rock is reported to exist about 3 cables W.N.W. of the West Point of Lamma Island.
The bearings are magnetic.
Variation 0°35' E.
H. M. S. Magpie, Hongkong, 21st April, 1883.
HUGH R. EVANS,
Lieutenant in charge of Survey.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :—
Nos. 2661 (a) and (b) China Sea, Northern Portion, Sheets 1 and 2; 2212, China East Coast Sheet, 1; 1962 China East Coast Sheet 2: 1466 Hongkong; Also, China Sea Directory, Vol. III, 1874, pages 32, 36, 74, 75.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.No. 158.
The following Notice relative to the District
Watchmen's Fund is published for general infor- mation.
By Command,
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 28th April, 1883.
NOTICE.
Statement of the Receipts and Expenditure, relative to the Hongkong District Watchmen's Fund, for the First Quarter of the Year 1883.
RECEIPTS.
To Contributions by different shops, first
quarter,
To Government grant,
To Balance of previous quarter,
.$ 676.48
500.00
54.13
Total,........
.$1,230.61
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