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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH AUGUST, 1881.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 294.

The following Letter is published for general information.

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By His Excellency's Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1881.

M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.

H. B. MAJESTY'S ACTING CONSUL, KIUNG-CHOW TO COLONIAL SECRETARY, HONGKONG.

H. B. MAJESTY'S CONSULATE,

KIUNG-CHOW, 15th August, 1881.

SIR, I beg to report that, during the last few weeks, cholera has made its appearance in this town and the neighbourhood. Dr. ALDRIDGE, the Customs Medical Officer, attended one case which he declares to have been undoubted Asiatic cholera, and it is reported that six or seven people die daily of it.

The first appearance of the disease was almost coincident with the arrival of the S. S. Consolation here, which vessel brought a large number of passengers from Bangkok.

I cannot obtain satisfactory information as to whether the epidemic is increasing or not, but from reports, I gather that the number of deaths per diem is pretty constant.

The Honourable

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

Hongkong.

I have, &c.,

OCT. JOHNSON,

Acting Consul.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 295.

The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.

By His Excellency's Command,

M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1881.

Government, of India.

1 MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.

(No. 28.)

RED SEA.

GULF OF SUEZ.

Suez Bay-Beacon on Kal-ah-Kebireh Shoal.

Information has been received that a new beacon has been recently erected by the Egyptian Government on Kal-ah- Kebireh shoal, Suez bay.

The beacon, 30 feet high, consists of a cairn of stones 8 feet high and black in colour, surmounted by a mast and triangle painted red; it is situated about half a cable northward of the position of the old beacon, or N. E. from the southern extremity of the reef, distant 1 cables.

(The bearing is Magnetic. Variation 41° Westerly in 1881.)

.By Direction of the Government of India,

A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),

Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.

MARINE SURVEY Department, CALCUTTA, 16th July, 1881.

This Notice affects the following:-BRITISH ADMIRALTY Charts Nos. 734, and 757. British ADMIRALTY Red Sea Pilot (1873), page 37 Also Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. 1, page 27.

If this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates,