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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH OCTOBER, 1905.

No. 111.

CHINA SEA.

FOOCHOW DISTRICT.

ENTRANCE TO MIN RIVER.

ALTERATION TO BUOYAGE.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the channel over the Outer Bar has now only 13 feet of water in it at low water of spring

The Middle Buoy (No. 2 Fairway) has been shifted and is now in the following position :-

Sharp Peak bears N. 65° W. Black Head (Hill) bears S. 27° W.

The positions of the other Buoys in the approach to the Min River are as follows :—

Min River Whistling Buoy: about 43 cables E.N.E., of the N.E. pinnacle of the reaf, Aymar Rock Buoy: about 23 cables to the E.S.E. of the rock,

East Channel Entrance Buoy (No. 1 Fairway) :

Inner Buoy (No. 5 Fairway) :

Sharp Peak bears N. 70° W. Black Head (Hill) bears S. 39o W.

Sharp Peak bears N. 50° W. Round Island bears S. 55° W.

Peak Shoal Buoy :

Southern extremity of Sharp Peak Island bears N. 4° W. South Point West Brothers bears N. 65° W.

Eine Rock Buoy :

Southern extremity of Sharp Peak Island bears S. 81° E. Sharp Peak summit bears N. 11a E.

The bearings given are magnetic.

By Order of the Iuspector General of Customs.

W. FERD. TYLER, Coast Inspector.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 15th September 1905,

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.

No. 2 of 1905.

REFERRING to Harbour Notification No. 1 of 1995. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs and the Consular Body have agreed that the Quarantine Regulations against vessels arriving from Foochow and Hongkong may now be suspended.

Approved:

SMOLLETT CAMPBELL,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, Chefoò, 25th September, 1995.

C. A. MEYER,

Harbour Master.