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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1877.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITHI, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th July, 1877.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE,
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 8.)
BAY OF BENGAL-BRITISH BURMA-BASSEIN RIVER.
Rock Off Hinghie Island.
The Master Attendant at Bassein reports that on the 14th March last, the German Barque Smidt, under pilotage charge, touched on a rock, hitherto unknown, having a depth of only 17 feet on it at low water springs, situated in mid-channel abreast of the northeast point of Hinghie Island.
The Government of British Burma have issued instructions to survey and buoy this danger; the exact position therefore of the rock will be notified hereafter.
By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 16th June, 1877.
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JOHN HENRY ELLIS, Staff Comdr., R,N.,
Deputy Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice will affect the following Admiralty Charts:-Preparis Nort Channel, No. 152; Coronge Island to White Point, No. 823; Bay of Bengal, Eastern Sheet, No. 70b; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 496.
If this Notice is received on board-ship, the substance of it should be inser..d on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TOMARINERS.
(No. 9.)
BAY OF BENGAL-BRITISH BURMA.
Rock Off Pegu Coast.
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Information has been received from Mr. John Robson, Master of the ship Inch Marnock, of the existence of a rock on which that vessel struck on the 27th April last, whilst off the coast of Pegu, on her passage from Bombay to Rangoon.
The rock has a depth of 9 feet on it at low water spring tides, and within a distance of 100 yards from it is a depth of 12 fathoms.
This danger is not laid down on any of the Admiralty Charts; and as the coast is very imperfectly known, great caution is necessary whilst navigating in this neighbourhood.
Position as given -lat, 16° 43′ 50′′ N., long. 94° 12′ 25′′ E.
By Direction of the Government of India,
JOHN HENRY ELLIS, Staff Comdr., R.N.,
Deputy Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 16th June, 1877.
This Notice will affect the following Admiralty Charts:-Cheduba Strait to Coronge Island, No. 822; Coronge Island to White Point, No. 823; Bay of Bengal, Eastern Sheet, No. 706; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 495.
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.
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Government of Bombay.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Directions for Kurrachee Harbour.
Latitude of Light-House on Manora Point Longitude
The present light is a fixed one, 120 feet above the sea-level, visible in clear weather In hazy weather, prevalent during the South-West Monsoon, about,
New Revolving Light.
24° 47′ 21′′ N.
66° 58′ 15′′ E. 16 miles.
7 miles,
A revolving first order dioptric white light will be exhibited as soon after the 1st July 1877 as practicable, in lieu of the present fixed light.
(The new light will be 150 feet whove the sea-level, and visible in clear weather.
20 miles.)