450 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1878.
No. 185.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st September, 1878.
Government of South Australia.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Marine Board Office, Port Adelaide, 10th July, 1878.
The following Sailing Directions are published for general information.
By direction,
THOS. N. STEPHENS, Secretary.
Sailing Directions for Port Moorowie, from an Admiralty Survey in April, 1878.
Moorowie is a coaster's port, immediately to the eastward of Point Gilbert, in Sturt Bay, on the north side of Investigator Strait. The anchorage is a round hole, two cables in diameter, with 12 to 21 feet water, to get into which a bar has to be crossed with 8 feet over it. As a general rule, the port i not available for vessels drawing more than 10 feet. Point Gilbert has some rush-covered sandhills, 60 feet high, on its western part. Rocks, awash and with less than one fathom over them, stretch three cables to the southward of the Point, and, half a mile south from it, there are five fathoms. A stony bank, which dries at half tide, lies two and a half cables to the eastward of Point Gilbert; and E. by N., two cables from the centre of this bank, a black buoy marks the extreme of the one-fathom line to the eastward of the Point. E.N., four-fifths of a cable from the black buoy, a chequered buoy marks a rocky bank, with 5 to 6 feet water, extending three-quarters of a cable east and west, and half a cable north and south. The buoy lies on the N. W. part of
the bank.
From Point Gilbert the coast bights to the N. E. (a rocky bank 20 to 40 feet high, fronted by sand and stones) for one mile to a point above which are some bare and rush-covered sandhills, the highest of which is 65 feet. A reef, awash at low water, extends two cables S. S. W. from this point, and there are no more than 6 feet water, S. W. S., four and three- quarter cables from it, where a red buoy marks the eastern side of the entrance to the port. The chequered bouy bears W. by N. N., one and two-thirds cables from the red buoy.
Tides. It is high water full and change in Port Moorowie at three hours ten minutes; sprin stream is scarcely felt inside the port; outside, in ten fathoms, the flood sets to the eastward, and wo following the direction of the coastline at a rate of 11⁄2 knots at springs.
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Directions and Anchorage.—Point Filbert should be kept to the northward of N.
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cast of north, then steer in betwee rea and chequered bu, passing half a cable to bring the post office (the highest limestone house) to bear N. by W., steer for it on th cables N. N. W. from the red buoy, with the high-water extreme of Point Gilbert bearing and weed, the holding ground being very good. From the westward, keep more than half a m the post office bears N. by W., then proceed as before. In going in, a vessel will pass over 8 to 9 the buoys. If obliged to wait outside for high water, anchor in 30 feet, with Point Gilbert hil rush-covered hill east of the Township, N. E. by N.
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The tidal the westward,
red buoy bears
former; or and a half 20-feet sand Gilbert, until distance outside N. W., and the
W. N. GOALEN, Navigating-Lieutenant, R. N.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Kingston, Lacepede Bay.
Notice is hereby given that on the completion of the Screw Pile Pier, which is in course of construction at Kingston, Lacepede Bay, a Fixed White Light will be exhibited therefrom.
Further particulars will be furnished in due course.
FERGUSON,
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, 26th July, 1878.
No. 181.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
President, Marine Board.
The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on Monday, the 30th day of September, 1878, at 4 P.M., are published for general - information.
By Command,
J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secret 'ffice, Hongkong, 14th September, 1878.
ticulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 30th Par av of September, 1878, at 4 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Four Lots of
Land, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a Term of 75 Years.
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