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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD MARCH, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 142.

The following Statement of Quarantine Restrictions is published.

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By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1905.

STATEMENT OF QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS IN FORCE ON 3RD MARCH, 1905.

Disease.

Port or Place.

Restrictions in Force.

Small-pox.

Shanghai.

Medical examination; quarantine at the discretion of

the Health Oficer.

Tamsui, For-

Plague.

Do.

mosa.

Authority.

Proclamation No. 1 dated 23rd January, 1905.

Proclamation No. 2 dated 24th January, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 143.

The following Notices to mariners are published.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1905.

INDIA WEST COAST.

BOMBAY HARBOUR APPROACH.

Outer Light-Vessel-Automatic Bell discontinued for the present.

With reference to Bombay Government Notice to Mariners, No. 86, dated 2nd August 1994, further information, dated 23rd January 1905, has been received from the Port Officer, Bombay, that the Automatic striking of the bell by gas pressure has been discontinued for the present, but the outside clappers continue to act during the slightest motion of the vessel.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Arabian Sea, No. 1012; Karáchi to Vengurla, No. 826; Gulf of Kutch to Viziadurg, No 2736; Aruala to Kundari, No. 737 ; Bombay Harbour, No. 2621; also List of Lights, Part VI, 1904, No. 237; and West Coast of Hindostan Pilot, 1895, page 197.

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By order of His Excellency, the Right Honourable the Governor in Council,

J. SLADEN,

Acting Secretary to Government.

BOMBAY FLOATING LIGHT.

Owing to the Bombay Floating Light having sustained damage notice is her by given that she has been temporarily removed for repairs.

Until further notice she will be replaced, at once, by a Light Vessel, having three masts, painted red.

By day she will carry a Red ball at the Main Mast head. By night she will exhibit a white revolving Light, at a height 36 feet above the water line, and revolving once in every 20 seconds, visible all round the horizon at a distance, in clear weather, of 10 miles.

H. S. BLACK,

Commander, R.M.,

Port Office, Bombay, 3rd February, 1905.

Port Officer, Bombay.