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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1885. 809

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 365.

The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th September, 1885.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Government of Japan.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

(No. 4.)

SOYASAKI LIGHTHOUSE.

NORTHERN COAST OF YEZO,

The Government of Japan hereby gives notice that a Lighthouse has been erected on Soyasaki, northernmost point of Province of Kitami, Hokkaido, the light of which will be exhibited on the night of the 25th September, 1885, and every night thereafter from Sunset until Sunrise except December, January, February, and March.

According to the Japanese Admiralty Chart No. 141, the position of the Lighthouse is approximately in Latitude 45 degrees 31 minutes North and in Longitude 141 degrees 55 minutes East of Greenwich.

The Lighthouse is an Octagonal Iron tower painted white with 3 horizontal black bands and 51 feet high from the base to the centre of the lantern.

The Light will be a Second Order Revolving Light, showing a White flash once every half minute between the bearings of S. 77° W. and S. 74° E. The bearings are true and as observed from the Lighthouse.

In clear weather the Light will be visible at a distance of 17 nautical miles. Its elevation above the sea will be 132 feet. During foggy or thick weather, Fog Bell of 15 cwts. will be rung at the rate of 12 strokes per minute. No Light will be shown, nor Fog Bell sounded during December, January, February, and March.

Tokio, 25th August, 1885.

COUNT SASAKI TAKAYUKI,

Minister of Public Works.

Government of China.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

(No. 195.)

CHINA SEA.

AMOY DISTRICT.

Quemoy Spit Buoy.

Notice is hereby given that in place of the Buoy mentioned in previous notifications, a red Automatic Whistling Buoy 10 feet in diameter at the water line, having the word “QUEMOY” painted on it in white letters, has been moored off the south-eastern extremity of the Quemoy Spit, in about 8 fathoms at low water springs, with

Quemoy Pagoda bearing,

Taitan Lighthouse

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from which position the water shoals suddenly as the spit is approached.

....N. 10° E., magnetic.

.N. 73° W.,

The 4-fathom shoal patch, shown on Admiralty Chart No. 1,767 as forming, bears E.S.E. from the Whistling Buoy, distant about of a mile.

Vessels are warned not to pass between this Buoy and Quemoy Island.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

A. M. BISBEE,

Coast Inspector.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 10th September, 1885.