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A break in this locality has often been reported, and was at one time marked on the Admiralty charts, but after an examination of the place by the Admiralty surveyors during the survey of 1873-1879 it was expunged.

It

The break having been reported several times afterwards, Captain Weir, in the Marine Board steamer Governor Musgrave, examined the locality, but found no shallow water. is therefore probably a tide rip which breaks only during a heavy south-west swell.

This affects Admiralty chart No. 1061.

ARTHUR SEARCY, President of the Marine Board,

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, September 28th, 1910.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

No. 19 of 1910.

MASTERS of vessels and others are hereby informed that the following lighthouses are now equipped with Morse signalling lamps, and may be communicated with by vessels passing during the night time :-

Station.

Latitude.

Longitude.

Cape Borda Lighthouse,

35° 45'

136° 35'

Troubridge Lighthouse,

35° 7'

137° 51'

Cape Jaffa Lighthouse,..

36° 58'

139° 37'

Cape Northumberland Lighthouse,

38° 3'

140° 38'

Penguin Island Lighthouse,...

37° 31'

140° 1'

Messages should be sent according to the rules laid down in the British Signal Manual. It should be understood that the Marine Board Department cannot accept any responsibility in dispatching from the stations any messages requiring delivery at Adelaide or other ports, but

every effort will be made to assist shipping in this direction.

This affects charts Nos. 1062, 1015, 1014, 2389A.

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, October 3rd, 1910.

ARTHUR SEARCY, President of the Marine Board.

TRANSLATION.

Notification No. 1215 of Department of Communications.

NOTICE is hereby given that the light at Experimental Acetylene Gas-buoy off Hom- moku at the entrance to Yokohama Harbour, which was temporarily discontinued (see Notification No. 1130 of Department of Communications, October 1910), has again been shown as ever.

BARON GOTO SHIMPEI, Minister of State for Communications.

TOKYO, November 8th, 1910.