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LE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH AUGUST, 1886.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 301.

wing Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.

By Command,

Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th August, 1886.

Government of Queensland.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. [No. 6 of 1886.]

FREDERICK STewart,

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Acting Colonial Secretary.

INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAITS. BEACON ON r REEF, COLE ISLANDS,

WASHED AWAY.

hereby given, that the Beacon on r Reef has been washed away.

It will be replaced as soon as practicable.

G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,

Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 3rd June, 1886.

Government of Japan.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. (No. 4.)

MOORING BUOY OFF NAGA URA.

It is hereby notified that a Mooring Buoy has been laid by Kanagawa Kencho off Naga Ura for Mooring the Quaran-

♪ tine vesas).

The Buray is cylindrical in shape and painted light red. It lies in 15 fathoms of water and west of a line drawn from Kannonsaki lighthouse to Honmoku Lightship.

Its distance from Futsu Buoy (Saratoga Spit Buoy) is 2 miles and its magnetic cross bearings* are as follows.

.bears N 78° 45′ E

Buoy of Saratoga Spit, Kannonsaki Lighthouse,. Sarushima,

North end of Matsushima,

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S 36° 33′ E

S. 5° 37′ W

N 56° 15′ W

Motors should navigate this part of the gulf with caution not to run foul of the Mooring Buoy as the Quarantine vessel may not be there sometimes.

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Tokio, July 6th, 1886.

VICE-ADMIRAL ENOMOTO TAKEAKI, Minister of State for Communications

* According to the Japanese Admiralty Chart No. 90, 17th year of Meiji.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 1

The following Notice from the Director of the Observatory is re-

By Command,

rotary's Office, Hongkong, 24th April, 1886.

NOTICE.

for general information.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

ogical Signals will be hoisted on the mast in front of the Police Barracks at Tsimshatsui:- A red drum indicates the existence of a typhoon in the China Sea to the East of the Colony. A red cone pointing upwards indicates, that a typhoon exists in a latitude more Northern

than the Colony, or, that it is progressing towards North.

A red cone pointing downwards indicates, that a typhoon exists in a latitude more Southern

than the Colony, or, that it is progressing towards South.

A red ball indicates the existence of a typhoon somewhere to the West of the Colony.

2. The shipping community is supposed to be guided not solely by these signals, but to consult

The China Coast Meteorological Register issued daily from here."

3. The Meteorological signals do not imply that a typhoon is approaching the Colony. Local -Glazed

Storm-warnings are given by firing the gun placed at the foot of the mast. It will be fired one round, whenever a strong gale of wind is expected here. It will be fired two rounds, whenever the wind is expected to blow with storm or typhoon force, and it will be fired gain, if possible, when the wind is likely to shift round suddenly,—such shifting being frequently accompanied by great disasters to the shipping.

4. In cases where special information is urgently required, enquiries at the Observatory should, if

possible, be made between 1 p. and 4 p., as I am particularly engaged at other times.

Hongkong Observatory, 25th May, 1885.

W. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer.