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No. 106.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH MAY, 1878.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation. in Hongkong, during the Month ending 30th April, 1878, is published for general information.
By Command,
J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1878.
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,
279,421
150,000
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,...
544,401
200,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
620,921
250,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
1,749,534
700,000
TOTAL,.....
3,194,277
1,300,000
No. 107.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The following Hydrographie Notice, is nublished for men
By Command,
al infr
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1878.
J. M. PRICE, 'Acting Colonial Secretary.
The information contained in this Notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the charts when the ship is navigating the parts to which it refers.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE.
(No. 5.)
CHINA SEA DIRECTORY, VOL. 2.
NOTICE NO. 15.
The following information relating to the non-existence of Raglan shoal, is derived from a Hydrographic Notice issued by the United States Government, 1877.
Raglan shoal,* reported by the British ship Lady Raglan, in the year 1858, to be in lat. 9° 28′ N., long. 109° 25′ E., was unsuccessfully searched for by H. M. surveying vessel Rifleman, 1863. In 1874 the French vessel Jacmel passed close to a supposed shoal in lat. 9° 24′ N., long. 109° 26 E., and considered it identical with Raglan shoal.*
Recently ( 1877 ) a search has been made by the U. S. Ship Ranger; and Commander Manley reports having made a tho- rough examination, under most favourable circumstances, of the locality (lat. 9° 24′ N., long. 109° 26′ E.), but obtained no bottom anywhere at 100 fathoms.
During this examination, occupying nearly one day, a good look out was kept by officers both from the deck and from The wind was blowing fresh from W. S. W., with a moderate sea, and aloft; no indication however of shoal water was seen. a spot in the ocean sufficiently shallow to be dangerous to navigation, has it existed, must inevitably have disclosed itself. +
Raglan shoal has, on these grounds, been expunged from the Admiralty chart.
Hydrographic
Admiralty char
ates Hydrogra
Admiralty, London, 25th February, 1878.
na sea, No. 2660a: Also China Sca Directory, Vol. II., 1868, page 80; and Notice to Mariners, No. 25, dated 19th
Notice, No. 55 of 1877.
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