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No. 57.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MARCH, 1879.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following comparative return of Stamp Revenue collected by the Collector of Stamp Revenue in February, 1878 and 1879, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1879.
Collected in 1879 up to February 28th,
No. 58.
"
in 1878
Increase,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
.$ 19,960.32 $ 19,957.20
.$
3.12
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1879.
Government of India.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 8.]
INDIA-WEST COAST. KATTYWAR.
Fixed Light at Goapnath Point, Gulf of Cambay.
Information has been received from the Executive Engineer, Bhaunagar State, that a light is now exhibited from a light-house recently erected on Goapnath point, at the entrance to the Gulf of Cambay.
The light is a fixed white light, elevated 68 feet above high water, and should be visible in clear weather through an arc of 180°, or between the bearings of S. S. W., through west, to N. N. E., from a distance of 6 miles.
The light-house-a buff-coloured limestone masonry tower, 32 feet high from base to vane-is situated on a hillock 240 yards inshore from Goapnath point.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the 6th order.
Position: Latitude, 21° 11′ 35′′ N.; Longitude, 72o 6′ 0′′ E. [Bearings are Magnetic and from Seaward: Variation 1o Easterly in 1879.]
By Direction of the Government of India,
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R. C. CARRINGTON, Chef Civil Assistant, for A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
MARINE SURVEY Department, CALCUTTA, 3rd February, 1879.
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affects the following:-British Admiralty Charts, Nos. 50, 51, 2736, 820, 748h; Sailing Directions "West Coast of Hindostan pilot," page 177, Light List for 1879.
Indian Marine Survey Chart, No. 15; Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 361; Light List for 1879.
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 9.]
The Marking of Wrecks.
The Corporation of the Trinity House, London, has issued the following notice :-
"It being desirable, when light-vessels or other craft are anchored to mark the position of wrecks, that Mariners should be able to distinguish them, and to learn on which side of them they should go,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
That, with these objects, wreck-marking vessels will in future have their top-sides coloured green, and will exhibit-
BY DAY-Three balls on a yard 20 feet above the sea; two placed vertically on the side on which navigating vessels
may safely pass, and one on the other side.
BY NIGHT-Three white fixed lights will be shewn similarly arranged, but not the ordinary riding light. Mariners will thus know, on sighting a wreck-marking craft, that she is so employed: and that they should pass on that side of her on which the two balls or two lights are shewn."
The above is published for general information.
By Direction of the Government of India,
R. C. CARRINGTON, Chief Civil Assistant, for A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 5th February 1879.