THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH MAY, 1893.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 171. Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Wednesday, the 24th instant, for the making up and supply of the undermentioned Articles for the use of the Police Department
20 Oilskin Coats for Europeans (different sizes).
40 Do. do. for Chinese 60 Sou-Westers
( do. do.
). ).
The Contractor will be supplied with the undermentioned Articles only from the Police Stores ; all other Materials to be supplied at his own cost, and included in the price tendered :-
Blue Serge. Hooks and Eyes.
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 $100 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if such person fails or refuses to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
Form of tender may be obtained at the Colonial Secretary's Office.
Samples of Coats and Sou-Westers and any necessary information may be obtained on application at the Office of the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.
No tender will be received unless sent in the Form required.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th May, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 172.
The following are published.
By Command,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th May, 1893.
Government of China.
KOWLOON DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 2.
Exhibition of Waglan Light.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Light on Waglan Island was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 9th of May, 1893.
The illuminating Apparatus is Revolving Dioptric of the First Order, shewing double white Hashes at intervals of half a minute.
The Lighthouse stands on the summit of the island, and the Light, which is elevated 225 feet above the level of the sea, should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 22 Nautical Miles in all directions where it is not obscured by land.
N.B.--For the present the Light will only shew thirty per cent. of its full power on the landward side, viz.: between the bearings, taken from seawards, North by East round by East to South-East by South.
The tower is round, of iron, 25 feet high, with a total height from its base to the lantern vane of 52 feet.
The lower half of the tower is painted white, the upper half red, and the lantern white.
The dwellings are white.
Approximate position :-
Latitude, Longitude,
22° 11′ 18′′ N.
114° 18' 1' E.
FOG GUN SIGNAL.
The Keepers at this Station on hearing a bell, foghorn, steam-whistle, or any other sound during foggy or thick weather, indicating the proximity of a vessel, will fire two guns with an interval of fifteen seconds between them, and, if the vessel's fog signal-shewing that she is under way— continues to be heard, will repeat the firing after an interval of twelve minutes.
J. McLEAVY BROWN. Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon
and District.
CUSTOM HOUSE, KOWLOON, 10th May, 1893.
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