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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, STI OCTOBER, 1870.
And We hereby further warn all Our loving Subjects, and all Persons whatsoever entitled t Our Protection, that if any of them shall presume, in contempt of this Our Royal Proclamation, an of Our high Displeasure, to do any Acts in derogation of their Duty as Subjects of a Neutral Sovereign in a War between other Sovereigns, or in violation or contravention of the Law of Nations in that Behalf, as more especially by breaking, or endeavouring to break, any Blockade lawfully and actually established by or on behalf of either of the said Sovereigns, or by carrying Officers, Soldiers, Despatches, Arms, Ammunition, Military Stores or Materials, or any Article or Articles considere and deemed to be Contraband of War according to the Law or modern Usages of Nations, for the Use or Service of either of the said Sovereigns, that all Persons so offending, together with their Ships and Goods, will rightfully incur and be justly liable to hostile Capture, and to the Penalties denounced by the Law of Nations in that Behalf.
And We do hereby give Notice that all Our Subjects and Persons entitled to Our Protection who may misconduct themselves in the Premises will do so at their Peril, and of their own Wrong; and that they will in nowise obtain any Protection from Us against such Capture, or such Penalties as aforesaid, but will, on the contrary, incur Onr high Displeasure by such Misconduct.
Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this Ninth Day of August, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, and in the Thirty-fourth Year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
No. 128.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that The Right Honorable The Earl of KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, has been pleased to approve of the appointment of FRANCISCO GUILHERME MACHADO, Esquire, to be Postinaster at Yokohainia.
By Cominand,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th October, 1870.
No. 129.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Adiniralty, is published for general information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th October, 1870.
[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. 67.]
JAPAN-KIUSIU ISLAND:
Temporary fixed Light on Satano-Misaki ( Cape Chichakoff.)
The Japanese Government has given Notice, that a light is now exhibited from the temporary lighthouse recently erected on Satano-Misaki (Cape Chichakoff), South point of Kiusiu island, entrance to Kagosima gulf.
The light is a fixed white light, elevated 290 feet above the sen, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 18 miles. It is obscured landward from S. by E., Easterly, to W. by S. Į S.
Position, as given, lat. 30° 59′ N., long. 130° 45′ East from Greenwich.
(All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 3a Westerly in 1870.)
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 18th June 1870.
GEO. HENRY RICHARDS, Hydrographer.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Nipon, Kiusiu, &c., No. 2347; and Kiusiu, &c., No. 958; Islands between Forman cat Japan, No. 2412; Kamchatka to Chiusan islands, No. 2459; also China pilot, 4th edition, page 450.
[Agent for the Sale of Admiralty Charts, Mn. J. D. POTTER, 31, Poultry, London, E.C.)