OIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 44..
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH OCTOBER, 1866.
VOL. XII.
No. 157.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that, in accordance with a Warrant from Her Majesty The QUEEN, dated Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 21st February, 1866, His Excellency the GOVERNOR has issued a Commission under the Public Seal of the Colony constituting and appointing JOHN SMALE, Esquire, to be Chief Justice of the Colony of Hongkong; and the said JOHN SMALE, Esquire, has been this day sworn into Office accordingly.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th October, 1866. ·
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
No. 158.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
By Order of His Excellency the GOVERNOR, the following Letter from the Acting Dutch Consul at this Port is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th October, 1866.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
H. N. M.'S CONSULATE, HONGKONG, October 24th, 1866. SIR,-At the request of the Director of Ways and Means, I have the honor to hand you enclosed translation of a notification, respecting buoys in the Indian Archipelago.—I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant,
C. H. M. BOSMAN, H. N. M.'s Acting Consul.
The Honorable W. T. MERCER, Esq.,
Colonial Secretary.
"TRANSLATION.”
"The Director of Ways and Means again draws the attention of Captains and others interested to his notifications of the "7th, 8th, 12th, 15th and 19th June, 1866. Nos. 47, 48 and 49, announcing, that the Herbert's beacons which were being "laid in this Archipelago had a small ball on the top, and by steering for any port, the white beacons were to be kept on the "starboard and the black on the port side."
"This notification is repeated specially with reference to the Herbert's beacons which are about being laid near Sourabaya." "Till now the outer beacon at the western entrance, which indicated the western limit was a black anchor shaped buoy. "This has been replaced by a white Herbert's beacon, which on entering the port must be kept on the starboard side."
"The Director of Ways and Means,
"Batavia, 7th September, 1860."
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(Signed)
"C. CASTENS."