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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH APRIL, 1874.
VOL. XX.
No. 17.
No. 69.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Letter from His Excellency Vice-Admiral SIR CHARLES SHADWELL, K.C.B., Naval Commander-in-Chief, defining the position of a Rock recently discovered in the Anchorage off the Foreign Settlement at Swatow, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd April, 1874.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
"IRON DUKE," AT HONGKONG, 20th April, 1874.
SIR,-I have the honor to forward herewith for Your Excellency's information Notice of a Rock recently discovered in the Anchorage off the Foreign Settlement at Swatow, and I beg to suggest the desirability of giving publicity to the same.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency's very obedient Servant,
His Excellency
SIR ARTHUR E. KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
NOTICE.
CHAS. F. SHADWELL, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
THE “MADRAS" ROCK, SWATOW.
The Rock on which the P. & O. S. S. Madras struck in September, 1873, has recently been examined and verified by the Commanders of the Imperial Chinese Gun-boat Ling Feng, and Her Majesty's Ship Hornet.
This Rock has eight feet on it at low water spring tides, and is dangerous from its proximity to the Anchorage for small vessels off the Foreign Settlement.
Its position may be determined by the following bearings:-
Bottefurh's Rock,
English Consulate Flag Staff, Eastern extreme of Western Pier,.
This affects Admiralty Chart No. 854.
....North 80° East.
....South 65° East. .South 35° East.