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ROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 3.
No. 9.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 21ST JANUARY, 1865.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. XI.
At the request of the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, the following Notice, announcing the establishment of a light on Robben Island, and certain alterations in the Lights on Green Point and Mouille Point; as also the erection of a new Beacon in False Bay, is published for general information. By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th January, 1865.
GOVERNMENT NOTICE.-No. 299, 1864.
Colonial Office, Cape of Good Hope, 19th September, 1864. His Excellency the Governor has directed the publication of the following Notice relative to certain projected alterations in the Lights in Table Bay, and the erection of a new Beacon in False Bay.
By command of His Excellency the Governor,
R. SOUTHEY. Colonial Secretary.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
TABLE BAY NEW LIGHTS AND FALSE BAY BEACON.
Robben Island Light.
A Light-house has been erected on the Southernmost (and highest) hill of Robben Island, Minto Hill, at an elevation of 154 feet above the sea, a light from which will be exhibited on the 1st of January, 1865.
The Light-house is in Latitude 33° 48′ 52′ S., Longitude 18° 22′ 33′′ E.
The building is a cylindrical shaft, 60 feet high, painted in horizental Red and White bands, exhibiting a White fixed light of the 1st order, dioptric. It is visible all round the horizon, and can be seen from a ship in clear weather 19 or 20 miles. Changes in the Green and Mouille Point Lights.
The two fixed lights in the Green Point square tower will be abandoned on the above date, and a White light of the 3rd order dioptric, flashing at intervals of 10 seconds, substituted. It is 65 feet above the sea, and can be seen in clear weather from a ship 13 miles..
Mouille Light.
The old pyramidal building which carried this light will be demolished, and replaced by a cylindrical shaft 30 feet high, painted in alternate Black and White bids, and carrying a Red light of the 4th order dioptric. It stands at an elevation of 44 feet above the sea, and can be seen about 10 miles in clear weather.
Sailing Directions.
Ships bound for Table Bay from the southward should not shut in the Cape Point light with the land at Slangkop Point until the Robben Island light--which will be seen before the one on Green Point-bears N.E. 3 E., when they may steer for it; and when the Green Point light bears east, an E.N.E. course may be followed until the red light on Monille Point comes open to the northward of Green Point light, bearing S.E. by S. This course will lead clear of the Vulcan Rock and the reefs that lie to the northward of it. The course may now be altered to S. E. by E. E., which will carry them one mile outside Mouille Point, and within this distance no stranger should round the point at night When the Mouille light bears S.S.W. a S. by E. course for the anchorage may be shaped, anchoring as soon as the Green Point light is shut in with the hillocks near Mouille Point, or with Mouille Point light bearing N.W. about one mile off, in from 6 to 8 fathomis. Small vessels may steer S. by E. E. for the anchorage in 4 or 5 fathoms, and anchor with the Mouille light bearing about N.W. by N.
Ships bound to Table Bay from the northward must not take too great liberty with Robben Island on account of its light, for the Island is low, and the dangerous Whale Rock lies S. 17 W., only 1 mile from the Light-house and of a mile from the nearest point of the Island.
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Having sighted the Robben Island light, a ship should haul to the S.W., if the light bear anything to the westward of th, until the flashing light on Green Point bears S. by E. or S.S.E., when she may steer for it until Robben Island light cars N.E., when she may steer S.E. by E.; and when Mouille Light bears S.S.W. steer, as before directed, for the anchorage, With the light upon Robben Island and the Green Point or Morille Point light, a vessel may readily determine her sition by cross bearings; but the safest and easiest plan to adopt is, whist the Green and Mouille lights are open of each other, to tack when the Robben Island light bears N. by W. W., and when they approach each other and become in line, to tark when the Robben Island light bears N. by W. This will prevent accidents from the lowness of the B'aanwberg beach and its deceptive appearance at night. Little, if anything, can be lost in thus beating in by gaying up the smooth water near the slore, as the constant northerly current that sets out between Robben Island and the main land more than destroys the seem-
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