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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH AUGUST, 1892.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 365.

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The following is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th August, 1892.

Government of China.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

No. 259.

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

CHINA SEA.

SHANGHAI DISTRICT.

NORTH CHANNEL ENTRANCE TO THE YANGTZE.

Notice is hereby given that, on account of alterations which have taken place in the North Channel Entrance to the Yangtze, as disclosed by a recently completed survey extending from Bush Island to Shaweishan, the following additions and alteration to the buoyage of this channel have been made.

A six-foot conical red Buoy, surmounted by a black spherical cage, to be known as the Chi-yao Bank Buoy, has been moored off the south-eastern elbow of Ch'i-yao Bank, to mark the starboard side of the channel, entering. This Buoy bears S. 34° W., true, distant 1 miles from Drinkwater Point Beacon.

A six-foot conical black Buoy, surmounted by a black inverted frustum cage, to be known as the Middle Island Buoy, has been moored off the northern elbow of the banks which lie to the northward of Middle and Blockhouse Islands, to mark the port side of the channel, entering. This Buoy bears N. 13° W., true, distant 6 miles from the Surveying Beacon on Blockhouse Island.

The Tsungming Bank Buoy has been shifted to a position where it marks the south-eastern edge of Tsungming Bank and the starboard side of the channel, entering. From this Buoy the "High Dark Tree" on the south-western shore of Tsungning bears N. 564° E., true, distant 4 miles.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 16th August 1892.

A. M. BISBEE,

Coast Inspector.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 349.

The following Lot of Crown Land at Morrison Hill Road will be sold by Public Auction on Monday, the 29th day of August, 1892, at 4 P.M.

Inland Lot No. 1,315.

For Particulars and Conditions of Sale see page 713 of the Government Gazette for 1892.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1892.

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