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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 145.

for general information.

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD APRIL, 1881.

The following Notice to Mariners is published

By His Excellency's Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

號五十四百

第報憲

週

年

知

奉

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 23rd April, 1881.

以

衆下

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 130.

CHINA SEA.

FOOCHOW DISTRICT.

Hebe Reef.

The position of the Hebe Reef has been recently de-

termined by the boats of H.B.M.'s surveying-vessel Magpie.

It is a pinnacle rock, about 50 feet in extent, steep-to, and with 11 feet of water over it at low-water springs. There

are 13 and 14 fathoms of water, mud bottom, to the north-

west and southward of this danger, and one shoal spot, of 4】 fathoms, a cable to the east of it.

From the rock-

Matsou summit bears N. 147° W.

Sea Dog"

"

N. 327° E.

The summit of Reef Island shows in the gap between Changchi and Nob Peaks, Changchi Island, but rather nearer to the latter.

Breakwater Rock, Tongsha Island, is in line with the

summit of Haitan Island.

All bearings are magnetic. Variation, 1° West.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

DAVID M. HENDERSON, Engineer-in-Chief.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

ENGINEERS' OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 11th March, 1881.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 133.

Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Tuesday, the 26th April, for supplying 200 casks of Portland cement.

Sample casks of the cement proposed to be supplied under this contract are to be delivered at the Surveyor General's Office before noon of Saturday, the 23rd instant, for the purpose of being weighed and tested.

For form of tender, specification and further particulars apply at the Surveyor General's Office. 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 $100 as a pledge of the bona 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 His Excellency's Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 16th April, 1881.

光緒七年

年

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之頂 付二其内伸或赫處 坤又爲丈近方情之得

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免西 十一十時於經周撤海為 日 疎一直之分塊四礁左英知營沿通

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