THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 4TH FEBRUARY, 1882.
RETURN OF PUPLIC WORKS FOR THE MONTH ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1881,-continued.
Expended
63
Description of
Date of Original Order for Commence- ment of
Completion Commence-
of Estimate for
ment of Works.
Present Amount Condition of
of Estimate.
to
Balance 30th Nov. Remaining.
1881.
1881.
1881.
1881.
C.
C.
ROADS, STREETS & BRIDGES,- Continued.
14.-Re-making Streets in Taiping-
shún, &c.,...
Reconstructing Road, from Pok-
fúlam to Battery Road,. Repairing and concreting Foot-
paths to East Street,
15.-Repairs to Bridges,
Painting Stanley and Kennedy
Road Bridges,
17.-Widening Kennedy Road,
9,000
8,548.17
451.83
29th Sept., In progress.
29th Nov., Completed.
1,000
033.59
366.41
15th Nov., Completed.
1,000
972.00
28.00
Widening and repairing a portion
of Kennedy Road,
7th Nov., In progress.
Rebuilding Bowrington Bridge,
1,500
Nil.
1,500.00
Harbour of Refuge at Causeway Bay,
Construction of Breakwater,... Lighthouses, Maintenance of Build-
ings, &c.,
Sanctioned in C.S.Ö. No. 2227 of 1881, 1 Spt., 1880.31 Ag.1880.| 28th Jan., Near completed.
100,000
30,090.00
69,910.00
21st May, 7th June, 28th June, one third compita.
1,000
634.03
365.97
Repairs to Cape d'Aguilar Light-I
house,
25th Oct., Completed.
Special Works paid for by Crown
Lessees,
Deviation of Ice House Lane, Changing line and reconstruct-
ing portion of the Sewer at the upper end of Duddell Street,... Reconstructing a portion of the Duddell Street Sewer which passes under the Queen's Road,
2nd Mar., In progress.
6,000
22nd July, In progress.
2,000
3,000.00
500.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
22nd July, In progress.
550
Nil.
550.00
Surveyor General's Office, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1882.
E. BOWDLER,
Acting Surveyor General.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 41.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th January, 1882.
Government of India.
MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 1.)
MALACCA STRAIT.
PENANG, OR PRINCE OF WALES' ISLAND.
Fixed Red Light Exhibited From Fort Point, Georgetown.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Harbour Master, Penang, has notified that on and after the 1st of January 1889, a light would be exhibited from a light-house on Fort Point, Georgetown.
The light is a fixed red-light, elevated 60 feet above the sea, and should be visible in clear weather, through an arc of 202 degrees, or between the bearings of S. S. E., through west to North, from a distance of 10 miles; consequently, the light is not visible in the South Channel below Jerajah Island.
The light-house is situated on the north-east bastion of Fort Cornwallis. It is an iron structure, painted white, and has an overhanging gallery round the light-room.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric, or by lenses of the 4th order. Position: Lat. 5° 24′ 30′′ N.; Long. 100° 20′ 10′′ E. (Admiralty Chart).
[Bearings are Magnetic and from seaward. Variation 2° 35′ easterly in 1882.] By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 3rd Junuary, 1883.
This Notice affects the following:-BRITISH ADMIRALTY Charts, Nos. 1366, 793π, 1353, 2760, 830, 70, and 7486. Sailing Directions, China Sea Directory, Vol. 1. (1878), page 51. Light List for 1882. INDIAN MARINE SURVEY Charts, Nos. 15d. and 1036. Light List for 1881.
If this Notice is received on board the ship, substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
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