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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH AUGUST, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 495.

The following Notices to mariners are published.

By Command,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1905.

No. 408.

CHINA SEA.

SWATOW DISTRICT.

Rock to the North of Lumock Islands.

THE following information has been received from the Commander of H. B. M.'s surveying ship" Waterwitch

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* A rock with 20 feet over it at L. W. O. S. and depths of 8 to 17 fathoms close round is situated in the following

position: From the Rock :-

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Lamock Island High Light bears

Ceutre of Dome Island bears

North Point Namoa Island bears

...S. 7° W.

...S. 65° W. distant 11.4 miles.

.N. 73 W.

The rock is marked by tide rips during the strength of the tide. The lead gives no warning of approach. Bear-

ings are Magnetic.

Latitude Longitude.......

23° 26' N. ......117° 19′ E

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs.

W. FERD. TYLER, Coast Inspector.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 22nd July, 1905.

TRANSLATION.

Notification No. 414 of Department of Communications.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Fog Siren at the Kinkazan Lighthouse is temporarily stopped in order to be repaired.

OURA KANETAKE, Minister of State for Communications.

TOKYO, July 15th, 1905.

No. 18 of 1905.

GULF ST. VINCENT.

PORT ADELAIDE RIVER.

REFERRING to Notices to Mariners, Nos. 1 of 1904 and 12 of 1905, Masters of Vessels, Pilots, and others are hereby informed that Deepening Operations in the vicinity necessitate the removal of No. 2 Light Beacou, and that on and after the 1st July next a Red Light in lieu thereof will be exhibited from the Red Pile Beacon south of No. 3. This Light on with No. 4 will point out when to turn off No. I lead (two Red Lights) and direct the course towards No. 3 Light Beacon.

SAILING DIRECTIONS.

By Night.-Iu approaching the anchorage vessels of deep draught should not bring the White Light on the old structure to bear north of N.E. by E. in order to avoid the four-fathom patch, which bears N.W. N. from the Light on Wouga Shoal: then get the outer leads (which consist of Two Red Lights vertical seven (7) feet apart and Two White Lights vertical seven (7) feet apart) in line; keep these in line påssing between the Occulting Light on the Red Buoy and the Outer Green Light on the north bank, also between the other Green Lights on the north bank and the White Lights ou the revetment mounul.

Steer on the same line until the two Red Lights of No. I lead are coming on; then steer with them on line until the Red Light south of No. 3 Beacon is on with No. 4; then direct the course to pass a safe distance off No. 3; then steer for a like distance off No. 4, and so on from beacon to beacon round the point until No. 9 is reached. From a safe distance off No. 9 the lights of No. 10 lead will be seen; keep them in line until the Red Light is about a quarter of a point open to the right of the White Light of No. 11 lead; then gradually alter the course to bring the lights of No. 11 lead in line; keep them in line (a sharp lookout being kept for the mooring buoys on the starboard hand) until the lights of No. 12 lead The same are seen coming into line: proceed as before by altering the course before the lights are on with each other. applies in the chauge from No. 12 to No. 13 leads; when the lights on the wharves are seen opening out off Luff Point, alter the course so us to round the point at a safe distance, and then up the centre of the Channel, looking out for the Mooring Buoys on the starboard hand.

By Day. The directious by day are the same as by night, merely substituting the Beacons for the Lights.

In going outwards the directions are just the opposite to those given for coming inwards: but in such case, in chang- ing from one lead to another, the course should be gradually altered when abreast of the Low (Red) Beacon of each lead.

This affects Admiralty Charts 23898, 1750, and 1752.

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, June 14th, 1905,

ARTHUR SEARCY, President of the Maring Board.