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No. 2.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Sп JANUARY, 1876.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1876.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 52.
CHINA SEA.
AMOY DISTRICT.
Tsing-seu Lighthouse.
Notice is hereby given that the Tsing-seu Light, on the Northern slope of the Island at the errance to the Outer Harbor of Amoy, was exhibited for the first time at sunset of the 13th December.
The illuminating apparatus is fixed Dioptric of the Fourth Order, showing a red light from N. 1° E. to N. 57° W., a white light from N. 570 W. round by W. and S. to S. 50° E., and a red light from S. 50° E. to S. 89° E. The bearings are magnetic and taken from seaward.
The Light is elevated 130 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear weather, the white light should be visible at a distance of 15 nautical miles and the red light at 8.
The tower is octagonal, of stone and brick, 20 feet high, with a total height from its base to the lantern vane of 33 fect. The tower is painted in alternate red and white vertical stripes, and the dwellings white.
Approximate position:-Latitude, N. 24° 224
Longitude, E. 118° 77
By order of the Inspector General of Customs,
DAVID M. HENDERSON, Engineer-in-Chief.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS, ENGINEER'S OFFICE, AMOY, 14th December, 1875. N.B.-The Tai-tan Island Light, No. 10, Third Issue of Chinese Lights, for 1874, will not be discontinued till further
notice.
No. 3.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., is pleased to direct that the Rates of Postage chargeable on letters forwarded by French Packet shall be lowered as follows, viz.:
To or From Ports of Northern China and Japan, ...to 8 cents per oz. To India, Ceylon, Saigon, Pondicherry, and Aden,...to 12 cents per 1⁄2 oz. By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
With reference to the above, it is suggested that the alterations of Postage notified be at once made with pen and ink in the Tables of Rates issued last month.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1876.
ALFRED LISTER,
Postmaster General,
No. 4.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following copy of a General Convention between the Governments of Great Britain and Tunis, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1876,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.