22474-1911-Supplementary-Notices-to-Mariners — Page 1

No. S. 35.

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NOTICES TO MARINERS.

TRANSLATION.

Notification No. 64 of Department of Communications.

NOTICE is hereby given that an explosive fog signal has been established at Shirakami- zaki Lighthouse on the cape at the west entrance to Tsugaru Strait, and should the fog siren at the lighthouse be disabled, on and after February 1st, 1911, it will be exploded once every 4 minutes.

The hand siren at the lighthouse will be withdrawn on the same date.

TOKYO, January 19th, 1911.

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION,

BARON GOTO SHIMPEL, Minister of State for Communications.

No. 3 of 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs and the Consular Body have agreed to an additional Sanitary measure to the effect that all vessels arriving outside Woosung from a Plague-infected Port shall anchor in the Quarantine Anchorage south-west of Chung Pao Sha, where all such vessels will be detained for observation by the Port Health Officer for any unexpired part of six days from the date of their departure from a Plague- infected Port.

All vessels so detained shall strictly observe paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of the General Regu- lations of the Sanitary Regulations for the Ports of Shanghai and Woosung.

Approved:

H. F. MERRILL,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, SHANGHAI, 1st February, 1911.

WM. CARLSON,

Harbour Master.

No. 500.

CHINA SEA.

SHANGHAI DISTRICT.

Bar Island Light Established.

NOTICE is hereby given that Bar Island Light was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 1st February.

The illuminating apparatus is Dioptrie, Group-occulting, of the Sixth Order, showing a fixed white light varied by two eclipses every 16 seconds, thus :-

¡

Light,

Eclipse, Light,

Eclipse,

.10 seconds,

2

""

2

""

2

and so on.

""

The Light, which is on the western shore of First Bar Island, is hoisted on a mast, is elevated 43 feet above high water, and should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 10 nautical miles.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 3rd February, 1911.

W. FERD. TYLER, Coast Inspector.