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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH OCTOBER, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 440.

The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Se ary's Office, Hongkong, 26th October, 1889.

Government of China.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

No. 231.

A. LISTER,

8.57

Sig

Acting Colonial Secretary,

The subjoined

CHINA SEA.

Mariners has been received from the Acting Commissioner of Customs at Jenchuan, Corea :—

COREA.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

No. 2.

JENCHUAN DISTRICT.

Tidal Beacon on Observation Island.

NOTICE is hereby given that a stone Tidal Beacon has been erected on the south-eastern point of Observation Island, in Jenchuan Harbour

The Beacon is batted with red and white horizontal bands, each three feet broad.

When the watches the lower edge of one of these bands, the figure painted on such a band indicates the least depth of water, in fe to be found in the channel across the bar to the Inner Harbour.

By Order of the Chief Commissioner of Customs,

(Signed) J. F. SCHŒNICKE,

Acting Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, JENCHUAN, 30th September 1889.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

IMPERIAL MARITIM CUSTOMS, COAST INSPECTOR'S Office, SHA OR 10th October 1889.

E. V. BRENAN, Acting Coast Inspector.

Notice is here!

Two Mooring y

at L.W.S., 590 feetfrom The one to the

outer end of the jett

Government of South Australia.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 2 of 1889.

PORT DARWIN.

BUOYS AND BEACONS.

that the following Buoys and Beacons have been provided at Port Darwin :-

have been placed near the Palmerston Jetty. The one to the eastward is moored in 80 feet water the outer end of the jetty, and 300 feet from the nearest part of the bank.

ward is moored on the edge of the mud flat, in 2 feet water at L.W.S., and is 530 feet from the

d.

An Iron Beacon with a. Can Top has been placed on the outer edge of the mud flat extending from Middle Point. The Hill on Middle Point bears from the Beacon S. 22° E. Vessels should not approach the Beacon within one and a half (14) cables at L.WISE Half () cable at H.W.S.

Two Beacon have also been placed to mark the position of the Submarine Cable. One on the edge of Jervois-road, immediately under Government Residence, and the other on the mud flat to the westward of Fort Hill. The Beacons bear N.E. and S.E om each other.

Masters of vels are hereby cautioned not to anchor close inshore until the inner Beacon is open to the eastward of the outer one.

From the outer Beacon the Cable trends to W.N.W.

Marine Board Port Adelaide, 6th September, 1889.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,

Secretary Marine Board,