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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
No. 32.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH AUGUST, 1878.
No. 157.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY, Esquire, having reported his return to the Colony, has resu duties as Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, from this date.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th August, 1878.
No. 158.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
etary's Office, Hongkong, 10th August, 1878.
J. M. PRIC Acting Colonial “
J. M. PRICE,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Magnetic bearings are from it :—
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
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dangerous rocky patch exists in the fairway into Mirs Bay.
The four
Fung Head,
.N. 16° W.
South end of Basalt Island,.
.N. 87° W.
..S. 55° W.
.S. 25° W.
East Ninepin Rock and South part of South Ninepin in line, North-east Head Tamkau,
This patch, about 40 feet long by 30 feet broad, extends in a North-east direction with 3 fathoms of water on it at low water springs and 15 fathoms close to.
H. M. S. Victor Emanuel, Hongkong, 7th August, 1878.
Government of Cape of Good Hope.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-SOUTH COAST. NOTICE TO MARINERS.
J. DIXON,
Staff Commander, R.N.
It is hereby notified that a Light Tower is being built about Two Hundred to Three Hundred Yards within the pitch of a low point (Seal Point), situated one and three quarter miles westward of Cape St. Francis, to be hereafter called
Cape St. Francis Lighthouse.”
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The Tower is a cylindrical stone structure, ninety-one feet high, with Keeper's Quarters attached at base, and is situated in latitude 34° 22′ 30′′ south, and longitude 24° 50′ 20′′ east of Greenwich. It is intended to display a second order Holophotal Revolving White Light, flashing at intervals of twenty seconds, with focal plane one hundred and one and a half feet above the base of the Tower, and one hundred and eighteen feet above the level of high water.
The Light will be visible in clear weather about sixteen and three-quarter sea miles from the deck of a vessel fifteen feet above the sea. It will command the coast uninterruptedly to the westward, but will be cut off to the eastward by Cape St. Francis on the line N. 53° E. true, or would not be visible from the eastward on a bearing more southerly than S. 53° W. true.
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The nearest existing lights are Cape Recif, about forty-five miles to the eastward, and Mossel Bay (Cape St. Blaize), about one hundred and thirty-three miles to the westward.
The Tower will probably be ready for the reception of the Lenticular about January, 1878, and the light may probably be exhibited some time between 1st March and 30th April, 1878, of which due and precise notice will be given.
JAMES FFORDE,
Chief Inspector of Public Works.
Public Works Office, Cape Town, 17th July, 1877.
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