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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST APRIL, 1866.
No. 2273.
FORT WILLIAM,
HOME DEPARTMENT,
The 9th March, 1866. NOTIFICATION.
The following "Notice to Mariners" is published for general information :—
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Doubts having been expressed as to the accuracy of the Longitudes assigned to the Andaman Islands, on the existing Charts, notice is hereby given that the Longitude of Chatham Island, Port Blair, has been recently determined to be 92° 45 East of Greenwhich; whereas in the Chart of the Andaman Islands, which is compiled from the Surveys of Lieut. Blair and Capt. Moorsom in 1789-90, revised by Lieut. Heathcote in 1853, it is assumed to be 92° 56′. The whole group of Islands is probably 13 miles West of the position that has hitherto been accepted.
The recent determination of the position of Chatham Island is deduced from 202 observations of Lunar Zenith Distance, and 29 Culminations, observed by Mr. Nicholson of the Survey Department with an Alt-Azimuth Instrument, having a vertical circle 36 inches in diameter. They were reduced in the Office of the G. T. Survey of India.
Calcutta, the 22nd February, 1866.
(Signed)
J. T. WALKER, Lt.-Col. R.E.,
Supt. G. T. Survey.
No. 49.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received, on or before Monday, the 23rd instant, for the erection of a Bungalow at Kowloon.
Plans and Specification may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th April, 1866.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
No. 50.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received, on or before Monday, the 23rd instant, for the formation of Roads in Victoria West.
Plans and Specification may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th April, 1866.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information, that the following modifications have been made in the regulations for the transmission of Books and other printed papers by the post at a low rate of charge between Hongkong and the United Kingdom, and between Hongkong and any of the British Colonies to which the privileges of the Book post have bee extended.
First. No prints or printed matter will be allowed to be sent at the reduced rates of postage fixed for Book Packe, unless they are printed on paper, parchment or velfum.
Secondly. Book Packets posted either wholly unpaid, or paid less than a single rate of Book postage, instead of bein detained, as at present, will be forwarded to their destination charged with double the amount of Book postage, the amou of postage actually paid, if any has been paid, will however be deducted.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 11th April, 1866.
P W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.