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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1892.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 371.

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The following are published.

By Cominand,

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1892.

Government of Japan.

NOTIFICATION No. 179 OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Notice is hereby given that, pending the construction of a FORT at the Northern entrance to Uraga Channel, Bay of Tokio, a TEMPORARY LIGHT-VESSEL will be MOORED by the War Department to mark the position of a group of CYLINDRICAL RED BUOYS which will be placed on the site for the Fort.

The Temporary Light-vessel will be moored at about 1'cable to the South of the Group, of the CYLINDRICAL RED Buors and in 22 fathoms of water at Low Water Spring Tides. It will be PAINTED BLACK and will have 2 masts, with a Red Flag on the mast-head during day.

The cross bearing taken from the Light-vessel will be as follows:-

Kanonsaki Lighthouse.......

Centre of Sarushima

West end of the Fort in course of construction,

East of Futsu Buoy.

..S. 13° 45′ E. true.

..S. 86° 30′ W. true.

..N. 5° 30′ E. true.

The Light will be a FIXED RED LIGHT and will show all round. It will be exhibited from the night of about the 20th August, 1892.

The elevation of the Light above the sea will be 25 feet, and in clear weather the Light will be seen from a distance of 4 Nautical Miles.

COUNT KURODA KIYOTAKA, Minister of State for Communications.

Tokio, 15th August, 1892.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

ESTUARY OF RIVER AMOUR.

Notice is hereby given that the Semaphore showing height of water on the BAR of RIVER AMOUR, and heretofore located on Cape Ussi, estuary of same river, has beeụ REMOVED to Cape Prangoe, where it is now in working order.

PR. A. LOBANOW DE ROSTOW, H.I.R.M.'s Vice-Consul.

August 15th, 1892.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 362.

The following is published.

By Command,

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

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

NOTICE.

A Special Sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' Room, at the Magistracy, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, the Sixth day of September, 1892, for the

purpose of considering an application from one ISRAEL WEINBERG for the temporary transfer of his Publican's licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situate at house No. 290, Queen's Road West, under the sign of "The Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle Hotel," to his son SAMUEL WEINBERG.

Magistracy, Hongkong, 25th August, 1892.

H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate.