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NOTICE TO MARINERS, NO. 685.

CHINA SEA.

Tientsin District-Gulf of Liaotung.

Further Information Regarding Unofficial Shore Lights for Lighting

the Approach to the Port of Chinwangtao.

WITH reference to Notice to Mariners No. 654, which notified, in connexion with the permanent discontinuance of the Chinwangtao Light, that the Kailan Mining Adminis- tration were exhibiting their harbour lights from sunset to sunrise to serve as an aid to navigation for the approach to the port of Chinwangtao, notice is hereby given that when these harbour lights are extinguished the Kailan Mining Administration will exhibit a powerful electric light from an elevated position on the Bluff near the site for- merly occupied by the Chinwangtao Light.

CAUTION.

Mariners are warned that these shore lights are unofficial and unwatched and that they cannot be relied upon to the extent of officially controlled and watched lights.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

THE MARITIME CUSTOMS,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 20th August, 1919.

T. J. ELDRIDGE,

Coast Inspector.

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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 222.-The following description and terms of the proposed leases of certain Crown Lands at North Point, comprising portions of the Foreshore and Sea Bed, are published under the provisions of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901.

DESCRIPTION OF THE LOTS PROPOSED TO BE LEASED.

As shewn on plan signed by the Director of Public Works, which can be seen at the -Office of the Public Works Department.

PROPOSED TERMS OF THE SALE AND CROWN LEASES.

1. In consideration of the terms agreed upon and upon completion of the reclama- tion of the Lots as arranged in the conditions of the proposed grants, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, it is proposed to grant Crown Leases of the follow- ing areas:

(1.) Area coloured blue on plan containing about 107,833 square feet for a

term of 999 years commencing from 24th February, 1896, and

(2.) Area coloured yellow on plan containing 17,200 square feet for a term of 75 years renewable on usual terms commencing from 31st August, 1903.

2. The leases will be subject to and contain all Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses, and Conditions usually inserted in the Crown Leases of Marine Lots in the Colony of Hongkong; the leases will also specify the purposes for which the lands are leased (i.e., whether for the purpose of reclamation, building dwelling houses, factories, or godowns for the storing of coal or other goods, or whether for any other purpose) and shall contain a provision that in the event of the lessees, their executors, administrators and assigns, or successors and assigns (as the case may be) failing, at any time during the continuance of the terms of the said leases, to use the demised lands for the purpose so specified as aforesaid, without the previous licence or consent of His Majesty, His Heirs,