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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 1875.
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BY THE PURCHASER. Memorandum that the person whose name is hereunder written has been declared the highest bidder for the Lot described in the foregoing Particulars of Sale and hereunder specified opposite to his said name and signature and does hereby agree to become the Lessee thereof under and subject to the foregoing Conditions of Sale and on his part to perform and abide by the said Conditions.
Number
of Sale
Registry Number and
Lot. Description of Lot Purchased.
Amount of Annual Rental. Premium at which
Purchased.
Signature of Purchaser.
No. 174.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Notice is hereby given, that Tenders for the Privilege of preparing and selling Prepared Opium within the Colony for the term of Three Years, from the 1st March next, under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 2 of 1858, will be received at this Office, until Noon on Monday, the 24th January, 1876.
Every Tender should specify the amount per mensem for the period above-mentioned.
Each Person tendering must produce a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the Sum of $5,000 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which Sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if such Person shall fail to carry out his Tender.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest, or any Tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th September, 1875.
No. 175.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following Hydrographic Notice and Notices to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, are published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th September, 1875.
The information contained in this notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the chart when the ship is navigating the parts to which it refers.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE. [No. 24.]
EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, Salayer Strait.-Pasi Island.
The following information relating to the Whale shoal, on which the British barque Evelyn, drawing 17 feet, grazed in January 1875, has been received from Captain H. B. Woollcombe, R.N., H.M.S. Thalia, 1875:-
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 0° 30′ Easterly in 1875.]
Whale Shoal, about a quarter of a mile in extent, with 12 feet on it, and 4 fathoms close to, is reported by the master of the Evelyn to lie about four miles W.N.W. from the north end of Pasi island, otherwise known as Hog island.
From the shoalest part of Whale shoal the north end of Pulo Salayer bears N.N.E.; and the south-west extremes of Pasi island and Pulo Salayer are in line.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
Surigao Strait.
The following information relating to a sunken rock, Surigao strait, on which the Spanish schooner Anguis struck, has been received from the Spanish Government, 1875:—†
The rock is reported by the Captain of the schooner to be a pinnacle rock with 6 feet water on it, 5 to 64 fathoms close to, and deep water all around."
The position assigned to the rock is in latitude 9° 51′ 30′′ N., longitude 125° 28′ 44′′ E., or about one mile N. E. from Basol island.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 29th June, 1875.
* See Admiralty charts:-Australia, general, No. 2759 a; and Eastern Archipelago, Nos. 941 b, and 942 a.
+ See Adiniralty charts :-Pacific ocean, north-west sheet, No. 781; Philippine islands, No. 943; and Sulu or Mindoro sea, eastern part, No. 2578.
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