762 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 1882.
The available channel, which is between these dangers, is only 40 yards wide, and must be used with the greatest
caution.
The Admiralty Directory, Vol. II., page 234,--from information supplied by Captain Moresby, R.N., of H.M.S. Basilisk,"-
P---states that the least depth of water in the channel is 28 feet, and that its width is barely 200 yards.
G. P. HEATH, Commmander R.N.,
Portmaster.
Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 25th July, 1882.
Government of Western Australia.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
PERTH, 28th July, 1882.
His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, for general information, that from and after the 1st November,
1882, the two Red Leading Lights hitherto exhibited at Champion Bay will be discontinued, and two White Lights substi- tuted, in lieu thereof,
By His Excelleney's Command,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No.373.
It is hereby notified by direction of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colo- nies, that in all ordinary cases, petitions from Chinese to the Government should be addressed
in the first instance to the Registrar General as the official organ of communication between the Government and the Chinese community, although they are still at liberty, if they prefer to do so, to address their communications direct to the Colonial Secretary, whose duty it will be to refer such documents to the Registrar General,
who will make his report on them to the Governor.
By Cornmand.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Acting Colonial S.cretary.
Hongkong, 16th September, 1882.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---- No.374. Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Friday, the 22nd September, 1882, for recon-
structing the Timber Wharf, at the bottom of Commissariat Lane,
For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply at the Surveyor General's Office. No tender will be received unless the person
tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $50 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if such refuses to carry out his tender, should the person tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 16th September, 1882.
GIFFORD,
Colonial Secretary.
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