THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13тп JUNE, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 247.
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Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon of Friday, the 26th instant, for constructing side channels, and concreting the road and footpaths, between Third Street and Battery Road.
For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply at the Surveyor General's Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th June, 1885.
FREDERICK Stewart,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 248.
The following Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th June, 1885.
FREDERICK STEwart,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO MARINERS.-VICTORIA.
PORT PHILLIP HEADS AND CHANNELS.
Extinguishing of Lights and Removal of Buoys, also Exhibition of Electric Lights.
Masters of vessels and others are hereby informed that it may be necessary for the safety of the Port and the protection of life and property to, at any moment, remove the facilities now afforded for the safe navigation of Port Phillip.
As a warning that such steps have been taken, and that no vessel will be permitted to enter Port Phillip Heads between sunset and sunrise, the Point Lonsdale and Queenscliffe high and low lights will be extinguished.
The master or pilot of any vessel entering Port Phillip Heads between sunrise and sunset will be informed by the officer stationed at Queenscliffe whether he may proceed through the channel or whether he must be piloted by a duly licensed pilot, specially instructed.
Immediately after the foregoing lights have been extinguished the following action will be taken :-
The lights in the South and West Channels will also be extinguished.
BUOYS.
The present system of buoyage in the South, West, and Cole's Channels will be either entirely removed or displaced, rendering the navigation therein dangerous, excepting to duly licensed pilots, specially instructed, who alone will be advised of existing dangers, and of the guiding marks which will, from time to time, be established for the purpose of facilitating the safe navigation of such channels during day light.
PILOTAGE.
Vessels prohibited from entering Port Phillip Heads between sunset and sunrise.
No vessel will be permitted to enter Port Phillip Heads between sunset and sunrise. The pilot schooner will be with- drawn from the outside station from sunset to sunrise, but provision will be made for cruising outside and piloting vessels between sunrise and sunset only.
Caution.—Electric Lights.
At the present juncture the Defence Department may at any time exhibit one or more Electric Lights from the vicinities of Queensclife and Point Nepean. Such lights will be at least 60 feet below any of the present lights, and must not be taken as guiding lights, as they will be dangerously misleading for navigating purposes, their object being a means of guarding the entrance to Port Phillip.
G. D. LANGRIDGE, Commissioner of Trade and Customs,
Department of Trade and Customs, Melbourne, 28th April, 1885.
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