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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 45.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH OCTOBER, 1875.
VOL. XXI.
No. 9.
PROCLAMATION.
[L.S.] J. GARDINER AUSTIN.
By His Excellency JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, Administrator and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas the Commands of Iler Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through the Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-
No. 6 of 1875, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice
of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide for Public and Bank Holidays:
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of October, 1875.
No. 187.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th October, 1875.
The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 114.]
CHINA-EAST-COAST-HONG KONG.
Fixed Light on Green Island.
The Colonial Government of Hong Kong has given Notice, that on and after the 1st of July 1875 a light would be exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on Green island, north-west end of Hong Kong island.
The light is a fixed light; it shows red when bearing from S. by E. & E., through East, to N. by E. E.; green between the bearings of N. by E. E. and N.W.; also green between the bearings of S. by E. E. and S.S.W. W.; throughout the remaining 111° the light is obscured by the island itself.
The light is elevated 95 feet above the mean level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 14 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric, or by lenses of the fourth order.
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 01° Easterly in 1875.] By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 12th August 1875.
FREDк. J. EVANS,
Hydrographer.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :-- China sea, Nos. 2661 a, b; Hong Kong to Liau-tung, No. 1202; Mirs bay, No. 1964; Hong Kong to Chelang point, No. 1962; Mongchow to Hong Kong, No. 2212; and Hong Kong, No. 1466: Also, Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, China, &c., 1875, page 20, and the China Sea Directory, Vol. III., page 80.