No. 60.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNment gazeTTE, 3RD APRIL, 1875.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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His Excellency the Administrator has been pleased to issue instructions authorizing CHARLES VANDELEUR Creagh, Esquire, to inspect every or any Place, or all or any of the Vessels or Packages in which Dangerous Goods are kept, to which the provisions of Ordinance No. 8 of 1873 apply.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st April, 1875.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 61.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon of the 10th instant, for constructing a Timber Pier near the site of the old Government Wharf.
Specification and Plans can be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.
The Government will not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any Tender.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd April, 1875.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG.
Cape d'Aguilar Light.
Notice is hereby given that a light will be exhibited on Cape d'Aguilar on and after the 16th of April next.
The illuminating apparatus is fixed Dioptric of the First Order showing a white light on the follow- ing bearings, which are magnetic and taken from Seaward.
1. From S. 45° W. to N. 53° W. Between these bearings the light is obscured by the islets
of the Nine Pins, and the islet just South of Waylan.
The light is then obscured by Soonkong Island.
2. From N. 21°W. to N. 42° W.
The light is then obscured by the Lema Islands, and the Islands to the Southward of them.
3. From N. 33° E. to N. 69° E. Between these bearings the light is obscured to vessels to the
South Westward of Ling Ting Island, and the Islands of the Samoun Group.
4. The Tathong Channel with the exception of a small portion obscured by Shicko Head.
The focal plane of the light is 200 feet above mean sea level, and in clear weather it should be seen at a distance of 23 Nautical Miles.
The Tower is round, of stone, 30 feet high, with a total height from its base to the lantern vane of 57 feet.
The dwellings and boundary walls are painted white.
The Lighthouse is in Latitude 22° 12′ 14′′ N. Longitude 114° 15′ 44′′ E.
Harbor Department, Hongkong, 19th March, 1875.
H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,
Harbor Master, &c.
NOTICE.
Owners of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water, and Fire Brigade Rates, are hereby informed that the Rates for the Second Quarter of the year 1875, are payable in advance, during and within the Month of April next.
It is particularly requested that such Rates may be paid before the 30th of April, as after that date application will be made to the Supreme Court for the recovery of any arrears that may be outstanding.
C. MAY, Acting Colonial Treasurer.
Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 25th March, 1875.