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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5 DECEMBER, 1885.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 471.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 15th December instant :- 1. For the construction of a sewer near the China Sugar Refinery at East Point. 2. For the construction of a retaining wall along Upper Tank Road, near No. 1 Tank. For form of tender, apply at this Office.

For specifications 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, 5th December, 1885.

FREDERICK STEWART,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 472.

The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.

By Command,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

FREDERICK STewart,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th December, 1885.

Audacious at Hongkong,

1st December, 1885.

HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO., No. 2.

HAKODATE HARBOUR, KATTOJI LIGHT.

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The Japanese Government has given notice that a Lighthouse has been erected on Kattojisaki, the western side of the on the British chart of Hakodate Harbour) in Province entrance to Hakodate Harbour (the point marked "Mussel Point of Oshima Hokkaido, the light of which will be exhibited on the night of the 15th Decembor, 1885 and every night thereafter, from Sunset to Suurise.

According to the Japanese Admiralty chart No. 6, the position of the Lighthouse is in Latitud. 41 degrees 44 minutes 28 seconds North, and in Longitude 140 degrees 35 minutes 44 seconds East of Greenwhich.

The Lighthouse is an Octagonal tower of Iron framework covered with wooden plauks, painted white, and 27 feet high from the base to the centre of the lantern.

The Light will be a Third Order, Occulting White light, eclipsing once every 20 seconds, the durations of light and eclipse being respectively 12 and 8 seconds. Its are of illumination will be 190 degrees and 30 seconds, the cut off bearings being N. 41 degrees 15 1inutes E. and S. 51 degrees 45 minutes W. The bearings are true and as observed hom the lighthouse.

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The elevation of the Light above the sea will be 137 feet, and in clear weather, the Light will be visible at a distance of 17 nautical miles.

To the Commedere and the respectice Captains, Commanders, and

Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed on the China Station.

R. VESEY HAMILTON,

Vice-Admiral, and Commander-in-Chief,

Government of South Australia.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

(No. 11 of 1885.)

SPENCER GULF.

GERMEIN BAY, PORT PIRIE.

Alteration of Lights.

Notice is hereby given that, in consequence of the progress of deepening operations in the channel leading to Pers Pirie necessitating a re-arrangement of the lights, the two leading lights and beacons will be removed on and after Monday, the 26th of October, 1885.

It is also intended (about the 1st January, 1886), to mark the recently deepened channel with five new beacon lights. commencing outside or west of the present chequered buoy.

Further particulars will be given in due course.

Marine Board Offces, Port Adelaide, 12th October, 1885.

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By order,

R. 11. FERGUSON,

President Marine Bears