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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH MARCH, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 182.

The following Statement of Quarantine Restrictions is published.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th March, 1905.

STATEMENT OF QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS IN FORCE ON 24TH MARCH, 1905.

Disease.

Port or Place.

Restrictions in Force.

Small-pox.

Shanghai.

Medical examination; quarantine at the discretion of

the Health Officer.

Plague.

Tamsui, For-

Do.

mosa.

Authority.

Proclamation No. 1 dated 23rd January, 1905.

Proclamation No. 2 dated 24th January, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 183.

The following Notices to mariners are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th March, 1905.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

THE Master of the S. S. "Esang" reports as follows. On a voyage from Wei-hai-wei to Hongkong:

At 7.45 a.m. of the 15th March, passed a floating mine with projecting spikes, one ship's length off, in Latitude 37° 29 N. Longitude 122° 32 E. Alceste I. bearing S. 68 E. true 7 miles.

At 10.20 a.m. same day passed another floating mine, in Latitude 37° 9 N. Longitude 122° 45 E. Mount Otter bear- ing S. 47 W. true 23 miles.

Harbour Department, Hongkong, 20th March, 1905.

L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, Captain, R.N.,

IIarbour Master, &c.

CANTON DISTRICT.

LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 71.

Removal work at Canton River Barriers; precautions to be observed by passing vessels.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 67, Notice is hereby given that the signals contained therein are annulled and that in future Warning and Danger siguals in connection with removal work at the Barriers will be made as follows:-

A Red Flag hoisted on a junk, steam launch or other craft in the neighbourhood of the Iron and Bridge Barriers, indicates a craft with bigh explosives on board.

Two Black Spheres hoisted on a junk in the vicinity of any of the Barriers, indicates that danger would be caused to life and property by the wash of steamers.

This signal will be hoisted when a diver is down, when explosives are laid, or when a junk is so fast to the botton or to piles, as to render the wash of a steamer dangerous.

Vessels approaching the Barriers should keep a careful look out for this signal, and, if hoisted, slow down at a suffi- cient distance to prevent her wash reaching the boat at work, and proceed dead slow until well past.

If owing to any reason it is unsafe for a vessel to pass the Iron Barrier, a Red triangular shape 6 feet in height, will be hoisted on a staff at the Barrier light hut.

A vessel seeing this signal should on no account attempt to pass.

J. HOWELL MAY, Harbour Master

Approved :

F. J. MAYERS,

Acting Commissioner of Customs. CUSTOM HOUSE, CANTON, 15th March, 1905.