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No. 187.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST OCTOBER, 1876.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
for the Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st October, 1876.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
Information has been received that a
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 13.)
MALACCA STRAIT,
(1.) Intended Light on Pulo-Pisang.
Light-house is in the course of construction on Pulo-Pisang, Malacca Strait, which when a light will be exhibited therefrom, visible when bearing from N. W. by
is expected to be completed in about a year, W. W. through north and east to S. E.
S.
SUMATRA, WEST COAST,
(2.) Sunken Reef in Siberoet Strait.
The Netherlands Government has given notice of the existence of a reef in Siberoet Strait, west side of Sumatra, over which the depth of water is variable, but on which the sea generally breaks. Position, latitude 0° 45′ S., longitude 98° 42′ E. [ Bearings are Magnetic and given from Seaward. Variation 1 Easterly in 1876.]
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N. ),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT; CALCUTTA, the 18th September 1876.
(1.) This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts: Malacca Strait, No. 1355; China Sea, No. 2660A; and Mount Formosa to Tanjong Bolus No. 796; also, Admiralty list of lights in South Africa, East Indies, &c., 1876, page 16.
(2.) Indian Ocean, Nos. 2483 and 748, b; and Sumatra Island No. 2760.
If this Notice is received on board-ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it and introduced into Sailing Directions to which it relates.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 14.) COLOMBO-CEYLON.
Information has been received from the Colonial Government, Ceylon, to the following effect :-
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Commanders of vessels are hereby cautioned not to pass between the black buoy (moored off the end of the break- water) and the end of the break-water in entering or leaving the port, as a stone mound is now being deposited there, and vessels might strike on it.
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT; CALCUTTA, the 20th September 1876.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts: Ceylon Island, Colombo on the West, to the South and South-East Coast, No. 813; Bay of Bengal, No. 70A.
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.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 20 of 1876.
EXHIBITION OF REVOLVING WHITE LIGHT
ON
CAPE FOULWIND,
West Coast of Middle Island.
Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, 9th August, 1876.
Notice is hereby given, that on and after the first day of September next a light will be exhibited from a Lighthouse which has been erected on Cape Foulwind, the position and characteristics of which are as follow:-
The Cape Foulwind Lighthouse is situated on the Cape of that name on the West Coast of the Middle Island of New Zealand. The tower is 53 feet in height from the base to the top of the lantern, and is constructed of timber and painted white; the upper part being close boarded, and the lower part of open framed work.
The light will be a Second Order Revolving White Light, visible all round the horizon as far as the land will allow. It will attain its greatest brilliancy every Thirty Seconds.
The light is elevated 190 feet above the sea, and, allowing 15 feet for the height of the eye, will be seen at a distance of 194 nautic miles in clear weather, and at lesser distances according to the state of the atmosphere.
GEO. MCLEAN.