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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUNE, 1866.
ordinary
270 feet in height, nearly flat-topped, with very precipitous sides, and may be seen 18 miles from the deck of an ship. It lies East and West and is two cables long and a half a cable broad, having low rocks about its base, the reet projecting from its West point extending two cables and marked under water by an overfall or a break. On East and West bearings it makes as a square mass of rock with a detached pinnacle on its North side. Raleigh Rock was sought for on all the known positions and in the space comprehended between 25° 50′ and 26° 10′ N. lat. and 123° 40′ and 1240 50 E. long., but nothing was seen of it. It was described by Sir Edward Belcher of H.M.S. Samarang, who landed on it in 1845, a rock 90 feet high, and 60 feet in diameter, and could not therefore, if existing in the position assigned, have escaped detection. Raleigh Rock is placed in positions varying from E. by N. to E. 1S. 20 or 30 miles from Tiansu.
BY COMMAND OF VICE-ADMIRAl Geo. St. Vincent King, C.B., NAVAL COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, (Signed) C. J. Bullock,
Commander of H.M.S. "Serpent.”
No. 98.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of the Ceylon Government the following Notice is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.
By Order,
W. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1866.
NOTICE
Is hereby given, that on and after the 1st of September next, during the erection of a Second Order Dioptric Light on the Clock Tower, a temporary Light will be exhibited on the Old Light-house near the Flag Staff, at an elevation of 90 feet above the sea.
JAMES DONNAN, Master Attendant.
Master Attendant's Office, Colombo, 9th May, 1866.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The portion of Robinson Road between the Glenealy Bridge and West Boundary of I. Lot 645 will be closed to the Public till further Notice.
Surveyor General's Office, Victoria, 23rd June, 1866.
W. WILSON, Surreyor General.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Letters, Newspapers and Printed Papers addressed to the French Colony of New Caledonia, may be sent in the Mails forwarded by the French Packets; the postage on such correspondence may either be paid in advance or it may be left to be collected on delivery thereof, at the following rates, viz. :
Under ounce in weight.
18 cents.
36 cents.
FOR A LETTER. Above 4 ounce but not exceeding Above ounce and not exceeding
ounce in weight.
ounce in weight.
54 cents.
For every additional † ounce.
18 cents.
NEWSPAPERS
2 cents each.
Correspondence intended to be forwarded by this route must be superscribed per "Messageries Imperiales Packet."
General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd June, 1866.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
No. 94.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received by the Surveyor General, on or before Monday, the 25th Instant, for the erection of a Sea Wall between the Harbor Master's Office and Parade Wharf.
Plans and Specification may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.
By Order,
W. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th June, 1866.