THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MAY, 1882.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 242.
The following Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
503
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th May, 1882.
NOTICE.
The Master of the Norwegian Barque Kvik reports that he passed a few fathoms from a rock not marked on the Chart, lying in Lat. 10° 50′ N. and 101° 50′ East, and about 10 miles North of a rock (John Wade) which was marked on the old Charts but has been left out of the new ones.
The rock lies in a North and South direction, is about six fathoms in length, and had, when the Kvik passed it, about seven feet of water on it.
H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,
Harbour Master, &c.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 243.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th May, 1882.
Government of China.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
CANTON DISTRICT.
No. 3.
Notice is hereby given that a Junk laden with Stone lies sunk in the upper Section of the Anchorage for Foreign Vessels, 290 yards N.W. N. from Shamien Rock Buoy, in 20 feet of water at Low Water Springs. The Junk sits quite upright with both Masts standing.
Until further notice, Two Red Lights in a Vertical Line, one above the other, will be hoisted on the Junk's Foremast from Sunset to Sunrise.
F. E. WOODRUFF, Commissioner of Customs.
J. H. C. GÜNTHER,
Harbour Master.
Custom House, Canton, 25th May, 1882.
Government of India.
MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 14.)
BAY OF BENGAL-COROMANDEL COAST.
MADRAS.
Buoys Marking Wrecks in Harbour.
The Port Officer, Madras, has notified that a green buoy has been moored in position inside the harbour, to mark the sunken wrecks of the late Steam Hopper barges Salisbury and Hobart. The buoy is laid about 80 feet to the eastward of the wrecks, in 29 feet (low water), and bears N.E. by E. E. from the northern T end of the pier, and S.E. E. from the Harbour Works Office.
Two small green buoys, with green flags, are laid immediately over the wrecks in 23 feet of water.
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 6th April, 1882.
This Notice affects the following:-BRITISH ADMIRALTY Charts, No. 71c. INDIAN MARINE SURVEY Charts, Nos, 105, and 1257a.
If this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.