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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 26.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH JUNE, 1874.
VOL. XX.
No. 108.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, are published for general information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th June, 1874.
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,
172. or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
CHINA
[No. 77.]
HONGKONG.
Sunken Rock in the Tathong Channel.
Information has been received of the existence of a sunken rock on the south-west side of the entrance of the Tathong Channel, Hongkong, on which the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Bokhara lately struck.
This danger (Bokhara rock) is a pinnacle rock with 3 fathoms on it at low water springs, it has 7 fathoms close to on all sides and 10 fathoms around. From it, the extreme of Cape d'Aguilar bears S.W. W. 7 cables, and Tathong rock N.W. W. nearly 13 cables.
NOTE. Ships from Hongkong bound to the southward, and passing through Tathong Channel are recommended to keep in mid-channel: if intending to proceed through the Shing-shi-moon pass Tathong rock should not be brought to bear to the northward of N.N.W. (or with Cape Collinson seen well open to the eastward of it) until Tytam head comes open of the southernmost islet off Cape d'Aguilar.
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1o Easterly in 1873.]
By command of their Lordships,
GEO. HENRY RICHARDS, Hydrographer.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 30th August, 1873.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :-China Sea, No. 2661 a and b; Hongkong to Chelang point, No. 1962; Hongkong, No. 1466;: Mirs bay, No. 1964; Canton river, No. 1739; and Mangchow to Hongkong, No. 2212: Also, China Pilot, 4th edition, page 79.
Agent for the Sale of Admiralty Charts, Mr. J. D. POTTER, 31, Poultry, London, E.C.
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.
JAPAN
[No. 79.]
INLAND SEA.
Fixed Light on Tsuri Sima.
The Japanese Government has given Notice, that from the 15th June 1873, a light would be exhibited from a light- house recently erected on Tsuri Simă, a small island westward of Kosü Sima, Inland sea.
The light is a fixed white light, obscured landward from N. by E. to W. by S. S.; elevated 286 feet above the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 20 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is of the third order.