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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST MARCH, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 121.

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The following are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st March, 1894.

G. T. M. OBrien, Colonial Secretary.

HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMORANDUM No. 32.

CA

IMPÉRIEUSE," AT SINGAPORE,

12th March, 1894.

N. LEUCONIA SHOALS.—A waterlogged wreck with a cargo of Petroleum lies 150 miles north of N. Leuconia Shoal, November 1893.

Charts 1263, 2660 (b.) China Sailing Directions Volume II. Page 358.

Java, N. Coast.--A wreek (Clan Grant) is supposed to lie in 18 fathoms. N. by E. true from Tegal.

Sailing Directions Eastern Archipelago, Part II. Page 119.

Charts 1653, 941 (a.)

The following information has been received from H.M.S. Severn.

SINGAPORE STRAITS.-The beacons to the N.W. of Tree Island and to the S.E. of Middle Island do not exist.

Chart 2404.

SUNDA STRAITS.--The buoys marking the submarine telegraph in Anjer Road and near Kalianda and Tjante in Lam- pong Bay have been withdrawn.

Chart 2056. Sailing Directions, Eastern Archipelago Part II. Page 41.

E. R. FREMANTLE, Vice-Admiral.

DIVISION NAVALE DE L'EXTRÊME-ORIENT.

CUIRASSÉ LA TRIOMPHANTE.

AVIS HYDROGRAPHIQUE.

Le paquebot le Saigon, des Messageries Maritimes, a touché, en février 1894, sur un écueil placé à la pointe S. O. de l'île Poulo-Gambir. Cet écueil, composé de trois têtes de roches, sur la plus élevée desquelles il ne reste qu'un mètre d'eau à basse mer de vive eau, est situé à 490 mètres dans le Sud 8o Est du rocher indiqué sur la carte 3837.

Position de l'écueil :-

Latitude approchée,. Longitude approchée,

Cet écueil est relié à la terre par une chaussée de roches.

13° 35′ 50′′ N.

.106° 59 30" E.

Government of Japan.

NOTIFICATION No. 60 oF DEPARTMENT or COMMUNICATIONS.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

TACHIGAMI BUOY,

CHANGE OF POSITION.

Notice is hereby given that TACHIGAMI BLACK BUOY in Nagasaki Harbour, has been shifted 280 feet to the Southeastward of its former position, for the purpose to mark the position of the sunken rock recently discovered there.

The Buoy is now moored immediately to the Eastward of that sunken rock in 5 fathoms of water at Low Water Spring Tides.

The cross bearings taken from the Buoy are as follows :—

South corner of Mitsu Bishi Co.'s Dock

Storm Signal post.

Kosuge Dock's entrance......................

Tokyo, March 8th, 1894.

.N. 40° 15′ W. true.

.N. 45° E. true.

...S. 36° 33′ E. true.

COUNT KURODA KIYOTAKA,

Minister of State for Communications.