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No. 107.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH JULY, 1873.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Extract from a Report by Navigating Lieutenant WEBSTER, of Her Majesty's Ship Princess Charlotte, received from Commodore SHORTT, respecting the position of the Rock on which the P. & O. Company's Steam-ship Bokhara struck when leaving Hongkong on the 21st ultimo,--is pu- blished for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd July, 1873.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Extract of Report addressed to Commodore SHORTT by Navigating Lieutenant WEBSTER, dated 30th June, 1873.
"The Rock is between 25 and 30 feet in length, laying in about a W.N.W. and E.S.E. "direction, having between 4 and 5 fathoms on it at low water, with the exception of its Eastern extreme, which is a bluff pinnacle rock about 4 feet square at the summit, with 18 feet on it at
There are 10 fathoms all round the rock. "low water Spring Tides, and 7 fathoms close to.
"The bearings from the pinnacle rock are the West extreme of Lochau Island, half-a-point "open of the South extreme of the Islets off Cape d'Aguilar, S. W.; Cape d'Aguilar, S. 53 W. 7 "Cables; Tathong rock, N. 15 W. 13 Cables; S. E. extreme of Tung-lung, N. 36 E.”
NOTICE.
"BOKHARA" ROCK, 18 FEET, L.W.S.
Ships bound to the Southward from Hongkong through the Tathong Channel are recommended to keep in the centre of that Channel; and, if intending to proceed through the Shing-shi-moon Pass not to bring Tathong Rock to bear to the Northward of N.N.W. until Tytam Head is well open of the Southernmost Islet off Cape d'Aguilar.
Sailing vessels beating through the Channel, when to the Southward of the Tathong Rock and standing to the Wesward, should tack before the Islet to the N.W. of Sun-kong comes on with that Island.
H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, §c.
No. 108.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 30st June, 1873, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th July, 1873.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,.
666,110
300,000
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,
680,056
300,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,.........
430,988
150,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,....
1,099,080
400,000
TOTAL,.......
$
2,876,234
1,150,000