876 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH NOVEMBER, 1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 378.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Friday, November 23rd, for further works in the Botanic Garden, chiefly the formation of walks, grass turfing, and clearing ground.
For form of tender, specification, and further particulars, apply to the Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department.
No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $25, as a pledge of the bond fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if such person refuses to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th November, 1883.
J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,
for the Colonial Secretary..
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 379
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Saturday the 1st December, for the construc- tion of concrete foundations for the masonry dam of the Tai-tam Water-works.
For form of tender, specification, 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, 17th November, 1883.
J. H. STEWART-Lockhart,
for the Colonial Secretary,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 380.
The following Report from the Government Astronomer, together with Instructions for making Meteorological Observations, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th November, 1883.
J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART, for the Colonial Secretary.
H.K.O.
No. 174.
HONGKONG OBSERVATORY, 8th November, 1883.
SIR, I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of His Excellency the, Governor, that, as directed by His Excellency in your letter of the 30th July ultimo, I have visited several of the Treaty Ports, and acted on the instructions laid down in your letter of the 23rd August ultimo.
2. I have during September and October ultimo visited Swatow, Amoy, Shanghai, Chinkiang, Kiukiang, Hankow and Takow, and called on the Consular and Customs authorities stationed there. I also accepted the invitation of the Commissioner of Customs, Amoy, to visit, as an official passenger in the Imperial Maritime Customs Revenue Cruiser, Leng-Fêng, several Lighthouses along the Coast viz.: Middle Dog, Turnabout, Ockseu, Fisher Island (Pescadores) and South Cape (Formosa). I spent six days at the latter place, it being a most important position.
3. I availed myself of this opportunity to study the geography of the Coast, etc., in its meteoro- logical aspects, to inspect and occasionally verify meteorological instruments, to select the best places for future stations, to instruct eventual meteorological observers, and to occasionally make meteorolo- gical observations on board, or magnetic observations on shore with instruments that I took with me.
4. I have the honour to report that at present no meteorological service appears to exist in China. Some instruments are read in the Treaty Ports and Lighthouses, but no particular system is followed. The instruments are generally useless. They are not of approved construction or properly placed, and corrections are not determined and applied, nor are the observers properly instructed."
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