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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MARCH, 1893.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 103.

The following is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1893.

Government of Japan.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

No. 555 of the Year 1893.

JAPAN.

G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

(1482.) KIUSHIU.—WEST COAST.-NAGASAKI HARBOUR.-CORRECTION OF THE

POSITION OF TATEGAMI BUOY.

By the recent examination of Second Hydrographic engineer Y. Chiga I. J. N., the position of Tategami buoy is corrected as follows:-

From the buoy

Minage point.

.N. 22° E. East end of the entrance to Kosuge patent slip...S. 32° E. Tomibana

..S. 49° 30′ W.

(The bearings are Magnetic. Variation 3° 55′ westerly in 1891.)

Navy chart: No. 92.

(1483.) KIUSHIU.--WEST COAST.—NAGASAKI HARBOUR.—SUNKEN ROCK NEAR KŌ-ZAKI (OGAMI ZAKI).

The following information has been received from the same Hydrographic engineer concerning the depth of water on a sunken rock lying 3 cables S. 23° 30′ E. from Iwashino yama A, northward of Kō-zaki.

This rock has a depth of fathom on it at low water.

(The bearings are Magnetic. Variation 3° 55' westerly in 1891.)

Navy chart: No. 92.

(1484.) NIPPON NAIKAL-WEST ENTRANCE TO NAGATO STRAIT.-POSITIONS OF

THREE SUNKEN ROCKS.

The same Hydrographic engineer reports that, he has determined the positions of the two sunken rocks named Kasaze and Tōridashi, and found another rock named Katanose. These rocks' positions are as follows :—

Manaita beacon light

S. 43o E.

From Kasaze (rock, 1 fathom at low water)....Oinoyama A

.N. 64° 20′ E.

Mutsure-jima (Rokuren I.) lighthouse

Manaita beacon light

..N. 3° 35′ W.

.S. 43° 30′ E.

..N. 41° 40′ E.

From Toridashi (rock, 24 fathoms at low water). Daibanohana, Takenoko-jima

Mutsure-jima (Rokuren I.)

Manaita beacon light From Katanose (rock, 34 fathoms at low water). Kita-zaki, north end of Takenoko-jima

Mutsure-jima (Rokuren I.).

(The bearings are Magnetic. Variation 4° 40′ westerly in 1889.)

Navy charts: Nos. 196, 250, 50.

..N. 8° 50′ E.

S. 44° E. .N. 79° 30′ E. .N. 29° 15′ E.

Hydrographic Office, Tokyo, Japan, 3 February, 1893.

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Captain M. YOKO–O, IJ.N., Hydrographer.