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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MARCH, 1887.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 96.

The following Hydrographic Notice is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1887.

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FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

·AUDACIOUS" AT HONGKONG,

7th March, 1887.

HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO., No. 16.

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CHINA.

Si Kiang or West River.-Information has been received from H. M. S. Espoir of the existence of three Shoals not marked on the Chart, at the entrance of Si Kiang or West River.

I. A Shoal of 6 ft. at low water springs.

West Point Water Island S. 871° E.

West Point Inside Island N. 19° W.

II. A Shoal of ft. at low water springs, liesmile E. by N. & N. from N.E. point of Ross Island.

III. A Shoal of 9 ft. at low water springs.

N. Point Double Island, N. 88° W.

Morgan Point,

N. 1o E.

The Broadway is generally much shoaler than the Chart shows.

Charts affected Nos. 2562, 2212, and China Sea Directory vol. iii p. 67.

Yatmoun Channel.-The Cordelia Rock mentioned in China Sea Directory vol. iii p. 82 as being in the Yatmoun Channel, has been searched for without success, and is reported not to exist, by Commander W. Usborne Moore of the Rambler.

Commodore Morant has passed three times through this Channel, in the Glenogle, when nothing was seen of any rock. No rock was found when the Channel was surveyed by Captain Bate, R.N., in 1850.

Since the evidence of its existence is too slight to obtain for it a place on the Chart, the statement in the sailing directions referred to above may be disregarded, and the Channel now be considered free from danger.

JAPAN.

Gulf of Tokio. Information has been received from the Japanese Government that the highest part of thio Fort on Futsu Saki, bears N. 2° 41' E. (true) distant 6502 yards from Kuwun-on-Saki Light House. This would place the Fort in Lat. 35° 18′ 33′′ N. and Long 139° 44′ 27′′ E. (approximately.)

Charts affected Nos. 2657 and 996.

To the Commodore, and the respective Captains, Commanders, and

Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships

R. VESEY HAMILTON, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

and Vessels employed on the China Station.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 97.

The following Notice under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, 1867, is published for general information.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1887.

THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE, 1867.

the First

It is hereby notified that the part of the house hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, Floor of No. 78A, Shaukiwan, was, on the 7th day of March, 1887, pursuant to Section 23 of the above Ordinance, déclared by me under my Hand and Seal of Office to be an Unlicensed Brothel.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Registrar General.

L.S.

Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 7th March, 1887.