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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND OCTOBER, 1880.
Government of India.
MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 10.)
BAY OF BENGAL-COROMANDEL COAST.
MADRAS.
Changes in the Buoyage of the Port.
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With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 27, issued from this Department on the 21st August 1879, it is further notified that, owing to the continual extension of the harbour piers into deep water, and in order to permit of a greater space being available for steamers inside the harbour piers, it has become necessary to remove the large red buoy which Hitherto marked the western limit of the anchorage for steamiers.
Commanders of steamers are warned by the Marine Authorities at Madras not to anchor between the piers in less than 5 fathoms at low water; and that when anchoring in this depth, they will do so on their own responsibility, and with the exercise of care and judgment.
All sailing vessels, excepting dhonies, should anchor in or beyond the 8-fathom line of soundings, and outside the northern and southern port buoys.
The port buoys are painted red and white vertically, and are anchored in 8 fathoms. These buoys are danger buoys, and Commanders of vessels making or leaving the anchorage are hereby warned not to pass inshore of either of them, nor come under 9 fathoms by night.
The northern buoy marks the position which will form the extreme end of the north pier.
Vessels are on no account to venture between the northern buoy and the north pier, nor between the southern buoy and the south pier, as the rubble bases of both piers extend much further seaward than the piers themselves.
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.,)
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 31st August, 1880.
This Notice affects the following:-BRITISH ADMIRALTY Charts, Nos. 71e & d, 828, 70a, and 7486.
105, 156, and 1034. Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 458.
INDIAN MARINE SURVEY Charts, Nos.
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.
No. 227.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that under the provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, Tuesday, the 2nd of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace, to be held at the Police Magistrates' Office, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, for the purpose of considering applica- tions for Licences for the sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the year commencing on 1st December next.
Applications for such Licences must be lodged at the Police Magistrates' Office, at least ten days before the Sessions, in the form prescribed in the said Ordinance, and no application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.
Printed forms of application may be obtained by intending applicants at the Police Magistrates' Office, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. daily.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's 'Office, Hongkong, 23rd September, 1880.
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FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.