THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1888. 903
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 415.
The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th September, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretwy.
IMPERIEUSE
HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO: No. 32.
AT ÖTERRANAL BAY, 18th August, 1888.
Rhio Strait.-H.M.S. Orion" reports having touched on a pinnacle rock judged to be situated about five or six cables to the Westward of Pulo Loban Keci
The Soundings obtained by II.M.S. "Orion" whilst searching for the Rock showed shoaler water than the Chart gives. Caution is therefore necessary.
Chart No 2413. Directory Part I P. 424.
Yantze River. The two new charts do not bear the latest corrections viz. those contained in Shanghai Notices Nos. 217 and 218, and Hydrographical Memo: No. 22 of 1887.
Charts Nos. 1199 and 1602.
To the Commodore and the respertice Captains, Commanders, und
Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships
and Vessels employed on the China Station.
NOWELL SALMON,
Vice-Admiral.
Government of Japan.
NOTIFICATION No. 132, OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Shirakami-saki Lighthouse, Western Entrance to Tsugarn Straits.
Notice is hereby given that a Lighthouse has been erected on SHIRAKAMI-SAKI, the Southern extreme of MATSUMAE GORI, HOKKAIDO, the Light of which will be exhibited on the night of the 15th September 1888, and every night thereafter from Sunset until Sunrise.
According to the Japanese Admiralty Chart No. 10, the Lighthouse is in Latitude 41 degress 24 minutes 20 seconds North, and in Longitude 140 degrees 12 minutes 40 seconds East of Greenwich.
The Lighthouse is built of iron, hexagonal in shape, painted with Black and White horizontal bands and 50 feet high
from the base to the centre of the lantern.
The Light will be a Second Order Catoptric Revolving Light showing alternate White and Red Hashes at intervals of 40 seconds. Its are of illumination will be 206 degrees, from North 74 degrees 45 minutes East to North 78 degrees. 45 minutes West. The bearings are true and as observed from the Lighthouse.
The elevation of the Light above the sea will be 120 feet, and in clear weather the light will be visible at a distance of 17 Nautical miles.
VISCOUNT ENOMOTO TAKEAKI,
Minister of State for Communications,
Tokio, 17th August, 1888.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
With reference to the Notification No. 128 of Department of Communications dated the 13th August, 1988, respecting the MOORING BUOY for Quarantine vessel off Nagaura, the bearing of Kanonsaki Lighthouse from the Mooring Buoy as given in that Notification was incorrect, S. 23° F. having been an erratum for S. 28° È.
Lighthouse Bureau, Yokohama, 23rd August. 1888,
BY ORDER.
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