THE
Hongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH MAY, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. II. No. 97.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMations, Notifications, and Public PAPERS, of this Government.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Seoretary.
No. 17.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
Sundry clerical errors having been discovered in the Copy of the Survey by Captain Bate, R.N., forming Inclo- sure in Notification No. 16, of 29th ultimo, from this Department, which appeared in the Government Gazette of the 2d instant, the same have been corrected, and an amended Copy is herewith published for general information.
By Order,
W. WOODGATE.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th May, 1857.
No. 16.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Naval Commander-in-Chief having directed a Survey to be made for the discovery of the Sunken Rock, on which H.M.S. Raleigh struck, on the 14th instant, has communicated to His Excellency the Chief Superintendent of Trade the following Report from Captain Bate, which is published for general information.
By Order,
W. WOODGATE,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th April, 1857.
H. M's 8. Coromandel, at Hongkong, 26th April, 1857,
SIR,-In pursuance of your order of the 24th instant, I have the honour to acquaint you that I have, in company with the Master of H. M.'s S. Raleigh, examined the Rock on which that ship unfortunately struck, and establish its position to be, by Admiralty Chart, in Latitude 22° 2′ N., Longitude 118° 47′ E. When on it, the following true Bearings obtain, viz. :---
Gap in the centre of "South White Rock," in line with the right extreme of a small wedge-shaped Island, off the Eastern side of
Lafsami Island,—N. 33° E.
Highest part of Aichow Island,-N. 86° E.
*East Chuk-wan" Peak, nearly in line with a small cliff head, the Eastern extremity of a bluff Island immediately N.W. of
Chuk-wan, S. 47}° E.
Great Ladrone Peak, seen over the Western slope of Pakleak Island, S. 284 W.; and the South extreme of the Northern Liungnib
Island in one with a small knob on the north summit of Woong Island—W. 4° N.
It is a small pinnacle Rock on which a moderate sea breaks at low water spring tides, and has 9 and 10 fathoms immediately off it, with 7 and 8 fathoms rocky bottom, in the vicinity to the south eastward.
The danger is situate nearly in Mid Channel, between “ Pakleak Island” and “South_ White Rock,” being distant from the latter 2.6 miles, and was, as far as I can ascertain, unknown.
I should recommend vessels not to use this channel until the ground has been more closely examined.—I have, &c.,
His Excellency Sir Michael SEYMOUR, K.C.B., ·
(Signed)
WH. THORNTON BATE,
Captain,
No. 18.
&c., &c.,
&c.
True Copy,
GEO. 'S. MORRISON.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of BRITISH TRADE at the PORT OF SHANGHAE, during the Year 1856, be published for general information,
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1857.
W. WOODGATE.