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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1884.
A.D. 1884.
The expression "Secretary of State" means one of Her Majesty's Principal Secre- taries of State.
The expression "Governor" means any person or persons administering the gov ernment of a British possession, and includes the Governor General of India and also the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of any part of India.
The expression "Colonial Secretary" includes a person performing the like duties as a Colonial Secretary, whether known as Government Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Government, or by any other title.
The expression "prison" includes any place for the confinement or detention of prisoners whether convicted or unconvicted.
The expression "sentence of imprisonment" means any sentence involving con- finement in a prison, whether conbined or not with labour, and whether known as penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labour, rigorous imprisonment, imprisonment, or otherwise, and includes a sentence awarded by way of commutation as well as an ori- ginal sentence passed by the court.
The expression "criminal lunatic means a person detained in custody by reason of his having been charged with an offence, and either found to have been insane at the time of such offence, or found or certified or otherwise lawfully proved to be unfit on the ground of his insanity to be tried for the same, and includes a person convicted of an offence and afterwards certified or otherwise lawfully proved to be insane.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 349.
The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th September, 1884.
Government of China.
CANTON DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS No. 22.
Danger to vessels running after dark.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The High Authorities desire vessels to be warned that they are liable to be fired on if running after dark. If, there fore, vessels arrive at the Bogue too late to reach Whampoa at the authorised slow rate of speed during daylight, or at Whampoa too late to reach the Bogue, they should anchor until the next morning.
C. H. PALMER, Harbour Master.
Approved:
F. E. WOODRUFF,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE, CANTON, 22nd September, 1884.
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. 132. }
EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.
Sunda Strait-Telegraph Cable from Nieuw Anjer (Merak) to Kalianda.
The Netherlands Government has given Notice, dated 28th June 1884, that a telegraph cable has been laid in Sunda *strait, from Nieuw Anjer (Merak) in Java, to Kalianda, on the eastern shore of Lampong bay, Sumatra :-
From the beacon with triangle on the shore at Nieuw Anjer, the cable takes a direction N. 42° W., passing about one mile northward of Merak island, where it is marked by two buoys.
From the western buoy, the cable is laid to pass one mile southward of Thwart-way island, and one mile south-west of Hog point to a position S. 71° E., distant 14 miles from the south-eastern of the Tiga islands. Thence it takes a northerly direction, and is marked by two buoys, situated respectively N. 51° E., distant 14 miles, and N. 14 E., distant 4 miles from the south-eastern Tiga island.
From the northernmost of the two last mentioned buoys, the cable takes a N.E. by E. and E.N.E. direction to the beacon with triangle and the cable house at Kalianda.
The buoys and beacons marking the telegraph cable are painted white; the buoys have the word “Kabel" on them, and are surmounted by an iron flag (Dutch colours) on which is the word "Telegraaf.”
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