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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH OCTOBER, 1892.

NOTIFICATION No. 219 OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

URAGA CHANNEL, BAY OF TOKIO.

TEMPORARY LIGHT-VESSEL TO BE REPLACED BY LIGHTED BUOY.

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Notice is hereby given that the Temporary Light-vessel moored by the War Department, at the Northern entrance to Uraga Channel, Bay of Tokio, for the purpose to mark the position of the group of Cylindrical Red Buoys placed on the site for a fort there, as notified under the date of the 15th August, 1892, will be withdrawn on or about the 29th September, 1892, and that on the same day, a Lighted Buoy will be established there by the War Department for the same purpose.

The Buoy will be moored at about 1 cable to the South of the group of the Cylindrical Red Buoys and in 22 fathoms of water at Low Water Spring Tides. It will be made of Iron, Conical in shape, painted in Red and Black horizontal bands and will be surmounted by a lantern.

The cross bearings taken from the Buoy are as follows:-

Kanonsaki Lighthouse..

Centre of Surushima.....

..S. 13° 45′ E. true.

.......S. 86° 30′ W.

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West end of the fort in course of construction, East of Futsu Buoy...N. 5° 30′ E. The Light will be a Fixed Red Light and will show all round. Its elevation above the sea, will be 16 feet and in clear weather the Light will be seen from a distance of 4 nautical miles.

NOTE. The Light will be kept burning day and night by self-feeding arrangement and should it go out by accident, there may be some delay in relighting it.

Tokio, 27th September, 1892.

COUNT KURODA KIYOTAKA,

·Minister of State for Communications.

Government of Straits Settlements.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

MALACCA.

On and after the first day of November next, the light on the beacon at Kuala Linggi will be discontinued.

Malacca, 24th September, 1892.

H. J. HARMER,

Harbour Master.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 420.

The following is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th October, 1892.

LETTER-from

MARINE DEPARTMENT.

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

To

SIR,

THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF FORT ST. GEORGE,

THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG.

I am directed to inform you that the Hope Island light on the East Coast of this Presidency will be extinguished from the 15th November to the 31st December next to permit of the fixing of a new fourth-order dioptric light which it is intended to exhibit there from the 1st January 1893. I am to request that you will kindly give publicity to this in- formation.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

W. C. LEWIS,

Under Secretary to Government P. W. D.

For Chief Secretary.

OOTACAMUND, 9th September 1892.