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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH OCTOBER, 1885.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 393.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Monday, the 7th December proximo, for :--

1. The removal of excretal matters from the City of Victoria.

2. The purchase of the manurial matters removed from the City of Victoria.

3. The management of the free public latrines in the City of Victoria.

4. The removal of animal manure from the City of Victoria.

For form of tender, specifications, period of contracts, and full particulars of these four separate services, apply at the Office of the Secretary to the Sanitary Board.

The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th October, 1885.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 394.

The following Hydrographic Notice is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th October, 1885.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Admiralty Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, PP 312 & 313.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

(No. 124.)

COCHIN CHINA,

SAIGON RIVER ENTRANCE.

Cangio Bank-Provisional Light Exhibited, Light-vessel Withdrawn.

With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 247, of 11th December, 1884, on alterations having been made in the lights at Saigon river entrance:-

The French Government has given further Notice, dated 15th June, 1885, that a provisional light is now exhibited from a pile lighthouse, erected on the north-east end of Cangio bank; and that the light-vessel previously moored near thu: position has been withdrawn.

The light is a fixed red light.

Approximate position, lat. 10° 24′ 40′′ N., long. 107° 0′ 30′′ E.

NOTE. The permanent lights to be shown from the two pile lighthouses on Cangio bank, will be visible in clea weather from a distance of 7 miles, but will be obscured over the banks on the western side of Saigon river entrance.

Further Notice will be given of the date of exhibition of the permanent lights.

(The bearings are Magnetic.

Variation ° Westerly in 1885.) · By Command of their Lordships,

W. J. L. WHARTON,

Hydrographe

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 6th July, 1885.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Saigon river to Phan-rang bay, No. 1261; Saigon or Don-uai river, No. 1269: A Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, &c., 1885, No. 245: China Sea Directory, vol. II., 1879, pages 334, 335; and China Sea Directe! vol, III, 1881, pages 201, 208.

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