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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH JANUARY, 1879.
Government of Queensland.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
NEW LIGHT, NORTH REEF, CAPRICORN CHANNEL.
On and after this date, a Fixed and Flashing Light will be exhibited from the Lighthouse recently erected on North Reef. The Tower, which is circular, is painted white, and is 80 feet in height.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric, of the second order, showing two flashes in succession, at an interval of one minute, followed by two minutes of fixed light, the series of changes occupying four minutes.
The light, which shows all round the horizon, is 72 feet above high water, and is visible from the deck of a small craft about 13 miles.
G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 14th November, 1878.
Portmaster,
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
LIGHT ON GATCOMBE HEAD, PORT CURTIS.
On and after this date, a White Light will be exhibited from the west side of the Pilot's Cottage on Gatcombe Head, at an elevation of 80 feet above high water.
The light will be obscured when bearing East of E. by S. 3 S. Vessels proceeding up the Harbour should after opening out the light, keep away for Auckland Point, being clear of the West Banks and the shoal water off Southtrees Point, while the light is kept in sight,
Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 19th November, 1878.
Government of India.
G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 25.]
BAY OF BENGAL-COROMANDEL COAST,
Deposit of Stone, Eastward of Harbour Works, Madras.
With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 22, issued from this Department on the 4th September 1878, the Master Attendant of Madras has given further notice that vessels arriving in Madras roadstead should not come within a depth of 7 fathoms, as stone is being deposited considerably to the eastward of the harbour groins.
Three buoys mark the limit within which vessels must not swing. At night, the lead must be the guide.
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 29th November, 1878.
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice will affect the following Charts:-Madras Roadstead, No. 105, and India, East Coast, Cape Comorin to Cocanada, No. 156, both published by the Indian Marine Survey Department, Calcutta; also Admiralty Charts, Coromandel Coast, Nos. 71e & d; India, East Coast, Cape Comorin to Cocanada, No. 828; Bay of Bengal, No. 70; and Indian Ocean, No. 7486; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 458,
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Chaits affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE,
NOTICE TO MARINERS. [No. 26.]
BAY OF BENGAL-BRITISH BURMA. BASSEIN RIVER.
Vessels Prohibited from Anchoring near Sub-Marine Telegraph Cable between Diamond Island and the Mainland. Notice is hereby given that a telegraph cable having been laid between the north part of Diamond island and the mainland to the northward, two posts surmounted with boards, painted white, have been set up, one has been placed where the cable leaves the water, and the other inland of it in a line with the cable.
To prevent damage to this cable, masters of vessels and others are warned that they are to anchor only with these beacons well open of each other to the eastward or westward.
If the beacons are not visible, vessels should avoid anchoring when the centre of Diamond island bears between S. by E. and S. by W.
If bound for Bassein, masters of vessels are also warned to avoid anchoring between the cable houses (which are painted white, one on each side of the river) in Gnaputau reach.
[Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 2° 45′ Easterly in 1878.]
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr, (late I. N.),
MARINE SURVEY Department, CALCUTTA, 4th December, 1878.
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Rangoon and Bassein or Negrais rivers, No. 834; Preparis North Channel, No. 152; Coronge Island to White point, No. 823; Cocanada to Bassein river, No. 829; Bassein river to Pulo Penang, No. 830; Bay of Bengal, Eastern Sheet, No. 706; also Indian Marine Survey Charts, Nos. 134 and 15c, and d; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. 1, page 496.
If this Notice is received on boardship, the 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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