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922 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD NOVEMBER, 1894.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 412.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Wednesday, the 14th day of November, 1894, for the construction of the proposed Storm Water Drains, in D'Aguilar Street, Queen's Road, Pedder's Street, and Old Praya, Sections Nos. 6 and 7, under Praya Reclamation Ordinance of 1889.
No work will be permitted under this Contract on Sundays.
For form of tender, specification and further particulars apply at the Praya Reclamation Office. No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $400 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if such person refuses to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1894.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 413.
The following is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1894.
Government of Japan.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.
WEST COAST OF JAPAN.
FUNAKAWA LIGHTHOUSE.
Notice is hereby given that the DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS has issued Notification that on and after OCTOBER 25th, 1894, a FIXED WHITE LIGHT, with 2 Sectors, Red and Green, will be EXHIBITED from a Square Wooden Lighthouse erected by this Ken at the Southern Head of Funakawa Anchorage, Province of Ugo, West Coast of Japan.
The Light will illuminate an arc of 194 degrees 10 minutes between the bearings of North 16 degrees 40 East and South 30 degrees 50 minutes West. The Green Sector will extend from South 82 degrees East to South 71 degrees East, covering 2 and 3 fathoms' patches, the former one of which is distant 8 cables and the latter 82 cables from the Lighthouse. The Red Sectors will extend from South 10 degrees 10 minutes East to South 4 degrees 50 West, covering Akane rock, distant.1 mile 2 cables from the Lighthouse.
The bearings are true and as observed from the Lighthouse.
The Lighthouse is painted White and is 13 feet high from the base to the centre of the lantern.
The elevation of the Light above the sea will be 141 feet, and in clear weather the Light will be seen from a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The position of the Light, according to the Japanese Admiralty Chart No. 168, is :-
Latitude
Longitude
39° 52′ 18′′ North.
....139° 50′ 9′′ East of Greenwich.
HIRAYAMA YASUHIKO, Governor of Akita-ken.
Akita, October 16th, 1894.
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