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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST OCTOBER, 1893. 1099

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 380.

The following Notice is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th October, 1893.

NOTICE.

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

Under a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court of this Colony, a Special Sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' Room, at the Magistracy, on Monday, the 30th day of October, A.D. 1893, at 12 Noon, for the purpose of considering, hearing, and determining according to law, an application from one ALEXANDER ÖLDFIELD for a Publican's licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors in the premises known as the first, or platform floor of A. S. Watson & Co.'s building on Rural Building Lot No. 80, at Victoria Gap, under the sign of "The Buffet."

Magistracy, Hongkong, 17th October, 1893.

H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 381.

The following are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st October, 1893.

Government of China.

NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 277.

CHINA SEA.

TIENTSIN DISTRICT.

G. T. M. O'BRIEN,

Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given that Captain WILLIAM P. CHARD, of the Chinese S.S. Peiping, reports that he has repeatedly, on different voyages, obtained soundings in from 7 to 9 fathoms, low water, hard mud, about 14 miles to the N. 871° E. (true) from Shaluitien Island (Tsaofeitien), where the latest Admiralty Charts show 15 fathoms, and that he estimates the extent of the bank to be about 3 miles in an E.N.E. and W.S.W. direction, with a breadth of from 1 to 14 miles. On a straight line from this bank to a point bearing south 3 miles from Tsaofeitien Lighthouse, Captain CHARD obtained no soundings of less depth than those indicated by the Charts.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

A. M. BISBEE,

Coast Inspector.

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 5th October 1893.

Government of South Australia.

NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 7 of 1893,

PORT ADELAIDE RIVER.

NORTH ARM.

Two beacons, painted green, with V-shaped heads, have been placed on the South end of Torrens Island, which, in line, mark the direction in which the Telegraph Cable is laid from the mainland to the island.

To avoid doing damage to the Telegraph Cable with their Anchors or Chains, Masters of Vessels bringing up in the North Arm are directed not to anchor within 50 (fifty) fathoms of the said line.

By order,

ARTHUR SEARCY, Secretary to the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices, September 2nd, 1893.

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