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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20ru NOVEMBER, 1884.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 416.

The following Notice from the Government Astronomer, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th November, 1884.

FREDERICK STEWART,

for the Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

From the first day of January 1885, the new Electric Time-ball by S. A. VARLEY is to be dropped at Tsimshatsui by the Mean Time Clock at the Observatory.

The ball will be hoisted half-mast at 12 55′′ p., hoisted to the top at 12 57m p. and dropped at 1 0 0.0 p. Hongkong Civil Time.

Hongkong Civil Time is henceforth counted from the meridian of the Observatory, i. e. the meridian passing through the middle of the transit instrument and through the middle of the white meridian-mark crected, according to a triangulation by the Surveyor General, 11,354 feet south of the transit instrument on the side of the bill above Wantsai.

The longitude of the Observatory is, according to observations made by Lieut. Commander GREEN, U.S.Ñ., in 1881, 7′′ 36′′ 41.86 East of the meridian of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

The geographical latitude of the Observatory is 22° 18′ 12′′.2 North according to Colonel PALMER's observations in 1882.

The Time-ball will enable masters of vessels to examine and rate their chronometers without taking them on shore, and by permission of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, chronometers may, on payment of a fee, be deposited at the Observatory for examination and rating, and certificates of the constants of each chronometer and of the relative trustworthiness of different chronometers may be issued by me.

Hongkong Observatory, 25th November, 1884.

W. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 417.

The following Lots of Crown Land at Robinson Road will be sold by Public Auction, on Monday, the 8th December, at Noon.

Inland Lots, Nos. 942 and 949.

For particulars and Conditions of Sale, see Government Notification No. 410 of the 22nd instant.

By Command,

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th November, 1884.

FREDERICK STEWART,

for the Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 411.

The following Lot of Crown Land at Wantsai will be sold by Public Auction, on Monday, the 1st December, at Noon.

Inland Lot, No. 950.

For particulars and Conditions of Sale, see Government Notification No. 400 of the 15th instant.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1884.

FREDERICK STEWART,

for the Colonial Secretary.