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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH MARCH, 1883.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 112.

VALUATION OF TENEMENTS.

The following Orders of the Governor in Council, made under the provisions of Sections 3 and 4 of Ordinance 12 of 1875, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th March, 1883.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

1. Mr. ABDOOL ROZAK MADAR and Mr. FRANCISCO FREIRE are appointed to be valuers for the present year, for the purposes of Ordinance 12 of 1875.

2. The 25th day of October next is fixed as the day before which the said valuers shall make, or cause to be made, a Valuation of the Tenements in the Colony,

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Council Chamber, Hongkong, 20th March, 1883.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 113.

HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICES.

The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information,

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th March, 1883.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

“FLEURS CASTLE” ROCK, REEF OFF TONG-TING ISLAND,

"SEA SWALLOW" ROCK.

Fleurs Castle Rock.-Lat. 31° 10′ 40′′ N., Long. 122° 21′ 30′′ E. H.M.S. Magpie made a minute search for this rock, between the bearings of W. by S. 4 S. and N.W. from the Armherst Rocks, and failed to get less than 5 fathoms,

The Yangtse pilots are of opinion that it does not exist..

2. Tong-ting Island.-Lat 29° 51′ 40′′ N., Long. 122° 35′ 30′′ E. The suspected reef one mile S.E. of this island, lately reported in the China Papers, has been proved not to exist.

The Island is 300 feet high.

3. Video Island is 996 feet high.

4. "Sea Swallow” Rock.—Changchi Island (Var. 1° W.). The correct position of this danger is 14 cables S.E, S. of the islet, and is a pinnacle of 7 feet at low water springs.

Between the islet and the South point of Changchi, is a ridge of 6 fathoms, on which is a pinnacle of 44 fathoms.

This Notice affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 1199, 1602, and 2400 (4 only). Also, China Sea Directory, Vol. III, 1874, pages 308, 323, and Hydrographic Notices Nos. 10 of 1881 and 36 of 1882.

H.M.S. Magpie, March 22nd, 1883.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 1 of the 16th Year of Meiji, (1883).

MIKOMOTO LIGHT.

ALFRED CARPENTER, Lieutenant in charge of Survey.

Discontinuance of permanent light and exhibition of temporary light.

The Government of Japan hereby gives notice, that pending improvements being made in the illuminating apparatus of the Lighthouse on Mikomoto-sima (Rock Island) on the southern coast of the Province of Idsn, the FIRST ORDER FIXED WHITE LIGHT will be DISCONTINUED for about one month from about the 25th April next 1883 until the completion of the work ;

and that during the said interval, a TEMPORARY LIGHT will be exhibited every night from a house erected about 500 feet to the south-eastward of the Lighthouse.

The Temporary Light will be Fixed White, being eclipsed towards the shore, between the bearings of N. 43° W. and N. 25° W. The bearings are magnetic, and as observed from the house.

It should, in clear weather, be visible from a distance of 15 nautical miles, its elevation above the sea being 90 feet.

SASAKI TAKAYUKI,

Tokei, March 6th, 1883,

Minister of Public Works,