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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 9.
No. 41.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2ND MARCII, 1878.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. XXIV.
The attention of Applicants for Licences to convey Emigrants from Hongkong is drawn to the inconvenience of the course frequently adopted by them in waiting until the very day on which the intending Emigrant Ship is to sail before furnishing the particulars required in order to obtain a Licence. They are requested to take notice that in no case should such particulars be furnished later than two days before the ship is intended to go to sea.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd March, 1878.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 42.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd March, 1878.
Government of India.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 2.)
BAY OF BENGAL, COAST OF BURMA.
Position of Krishna shoal Light-vessel.
With reference to notice to Mariners, No. 21 of 1877, notice is hereby given that the Star light-vessel which was reported by the Marine Authorities in Rangoon to be placed 4 miles eastward of the position of the recently destroyed Krishna light-house, is reported to be from 3 to 5 miles in error on the Charts and Notices lately issued.
This light-vessel-according to reliable information just received in this Department-appears to be anchored in about 9 fathoms and at least 8 miles on an E. N. E. bearing from the site of the old light-house.
Caution.-Navigators are therefore warned to be careful when rounding the Krishna Shoal.
Variation 2° 45′ Easterly in 1878.]
[The Bearings are Magnetic.
By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 21st January 1878.
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A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, (Comdr., late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice effects the following Admiralty Charts:--Gulf of Martaban, No. 823; Bay of Bengal, No. 70b; Indian Ocean, No. 7486; also, Admiratly Light list, India, &c, page 16, No. 96: Marine Survey Department Light list, No, 87; and Taylor's Salling Directory, Vol. I., page 408.
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.