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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st SEPTEMBER, 1889. 793

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 403.

The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st September, 1889.

ARATHOON SETH,

for the Colonial Secretary.

HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO: No. 45.

JAPAN.

"Imperieuse" AT HAKODATE, 26th August, 1889.

KAMONE-SHIMA BEACON LIGHT.-The Japanese Government has given notice that a Beacon Light will be exhibited from a Tower erected on Kamone-Shima, Yesashi Harbour, from the 15th proximo. The Light will be Fixed white, visible between the bearings of S. 17° 45′ E. and N. 72° 15′ E. 104 feet above the sea, visible 6 miles. The bearings are true and as observed from the Tower.

The Tower is built of wood, square in horizontal section, painted white, and is 13 feet high from the base to the centre of the Lantern.

Charts Nos. 452 and 2441.

China Sea Directory, Vol. IV. page 575.

To the Commodore and the respective Captains, Commanders, and

Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships

and Vessels employed on the China Station.

NOWELL SALMON,

Vice-Admiral.

The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Admiralty Instructions, 1887,

Navigation and Pilotage, p. 368.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

[No. 275 of the year 1889.]

GULF OF ADEN.

GULF OF

TAJÚ RA.

Shoal Eastward of Ras Doan.

The French Government has given Notice, dated 27th July 1889, that the Commander of the French vessel-of-war Météore reports the existence of a shoal eastward of Ras Doan, northern shore of gulf of Tajúra :-

This shoal, over which the Météore grazed, has a depth of 10 feet on it, and is situated nearly half a mile eastward of Ras Doan.

Position, approximate, lat. 11° 47′ N., long. 43° 23′ E.

By Command of their Lordships,

W. J. L. WHARTON, Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 8th August 1889.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Red Sea, sheet 5, No. 8e; Jebel Jan to Seyáreh, No. 253a: Also, Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1887, page 74.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 404.

The following Notices under The Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1889, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st September, 1889.

ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary.

THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS ORDINANCE, No. 19 of 1889.

Notification under Section 41.

It is hereby notified that the part of the house hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the First Floor of No. 6, Gough Street, was, on the 20th day of September, 1889, pursuant to Section 41 of the above Ordinance, declared by me, a third time, under my Hand and Seal of Office, to be an Unregis- tered Brothel.

L.S.

N. G. MITCHELL-Innes, Acting Registrar General,

Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 21st September, 1889.