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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH AUGUST, 1898.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 379.

851

The following is published.

By Command,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th August, 1898.

Government of China.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

No. 326.

CHINA SEA.

SHANGHAI DISTRICT.

NORTH CHANNEL ENTRANCE TO THE YANGTZE.

DRINKWATER POINT LIGHTHOUSE.

Notice is hereby given that the Light at Drinkwater Point was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 15th instant. The illuminating apparatus is Dioptric, Group-flashing, of the Fourth Order, showing double white flashes at intervals of 20 seconds.

The Lighthouse stands 995 feet N. 45° W. from the site of the Drinkwater Point Beacon, and the Light, which is elevated 89 feet above the level of the sca, should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 15 nautical miles.

The tower is an iron screw pile structure, 80 feet high, with a total height from the base to the lantern vane of 931 fect. The tower is painted in alternate black and white horizontal bands.

Approximate position

Latitude Longitude

31° 27′ 50′′ N, ..121° 48′ 45′′ E.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

W. FERD. TYLER,

Acting Coast Inspector.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 16th August, 1898.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 371.

The following Lot of Crown Land at New Road, Magazine Gap and Plantation Road, will be sold by Public Auction on Monday, the 5th day of September, 1898, at 3 p.m.

Rural Building Lot No. 90.

For Particulars and Conditions of Sale see page 833 of the Government Gazette for 1898.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 362.

The following Lot of Crown Land at Morrison Hill Road, (Canal side), will be sold by Public Auction on Monday, the 29th day of August, 1898, at 3 p.m.

Inland Lot No. 1,508.

For Particulars and Conditions of Sale see page 802 of the Government Gazette for 1898.

By Cominand,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th August, 1898.