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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH MARCH, 1883.

FRANCE-SOUTH COAST-MARSEILLES.

(62.) Beacon. (N. M. 17-'83.)

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Information has been received that a wooden beacon has been placed on the rock-work of the outer jetty at the port of Marseilles, 11 yards from its northern extremity. This beacon supports, at an elevation of 48 feet above low water, a mark shaped like two rectangular pyramids, with their bases joined, and the mark is surmounted by two sheet-iron rings, at right angles to each other, and a weather vane.

The signal thus constructed is painted red.

(Annonce Hydrographique, No. 173, (1002) Paris, 1882.)

This Notice affects the following Charts, &c.:

Hydrographic Office:

(43 to 62, inclusive.) No. 22, North Atlantic Ocean, Sheet II.

* No. 10 France, Wear Coast, Sheet III.

No. Trafice, West Coast, Sheet VII.

62.) Nos. 688, 691 and 689, Port and Roadstead of Marseilles.

British Admiralty:

(58, 59 and 60.) Nos. 2059 and 2060a, North Atlantic, Eastern Portion.

(59 and 60.) No. 2728, Spain, Bayonne to Oporto.

(61 and 62.) Nos. 449 and 2158a, Mediterranean Sea, Sheet I

(58) Nos. 2 and 2646, France, Sheet V.

(59.) No. 2665, France, Sheet I

(61.) Nos. 2717 and 1766, Cape Perrat to Cape Bongaroni,

(62.) Nos 2606, 2607 and 150, Port and Boadstead of Marseilles.

Sailing Directions, &c, pl

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Coasts and Ports of the Bay of Biscay," (U. S. H. 0.), 1876, page 330 (58); page 195 (59); page 128 (60). Coasts and Islands of the Mediterranean," Part I, (Ú. S. H. O.), 1875, page 79 (61); Part II, 1878, page 85 (62).

U. S. Light-list No. 4 of 1881.

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Page.

N. M. 17-'83. (60.)

163, col. of R.

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By order of the Bureau of Navigation:

J. C. P. de KRAFFT, Commodore, U. S. N., Hydrographer to the Bureau.

U. S. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, Washington, D. C., January 19, 1883.

The substance of this Notice 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 and Light-list to which it relates.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

FOREIGN LIGHTS, &c.

[No. 18 of 1883.]

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UNITED STATES-NEW YORK-LOWER BAY.

(63.) Iron bugys to be kept in position. (N. M. 18-'83.)

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Information has been received that every effort will be made to keep in position the following described iron can and nun-buoys, in the lower bay of New York :

Fairway and inner mid-channel of Gedney's,

Bar buoy of South channel.

No. 8 of Flynn's knoll.

No. 8 SW. spit.

Buoy at upper junction of Main ship and Swash channels,

No. 8 of Upper Middle.

No. 15. of Main ship channel.

Nos. 3 and of Swash channel.

No. 5 and horizontal striped of False Hook channel.

Also, the automatic whistling-buoy at Gedney's channel.

(Office of Light-house Inspector, 3d District Tompkinsville, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1888.)

This Notice affects, temporarily, the following Charts, &c.:

Hydrographic Office:

(63.) Nos. 18, 21 and 238, East Coast of North America. Coast Survey:

(63.) Nos. 8, 120, 121, A, 369a and 369, Bay and Harbor of New York.

British Admiralty:

(63.) Nos. 2069; 2260h, 2670, 2480 and 2491, North America, East Coast, Approaches to New York.

Sailing Directions, &c.:

"Atlantic Coast Pilot," Division B, Boston to New York, page 554 (63).

“North Atlantic Memoir," page 648 (63),

List of Buoys, Beacons, Towers," &c., 3d Light-house District, (U, S. Light-house Board), 1881, pages 58 to 64 (63).

By order of the Bureau of Navigation :

U. S. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, Washington, D. C., January 19, 1883.

J. C. P. de KRAFFT, Commodore, U. S. N., Hydrographer to the Bureau.