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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH AUGUST, 1878.

GOVERNMENT

CE.-No. 318, 1878.

Office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands

and Public Works, 29th April, 1878.

With reference to the above Notice, it is now hereby further notified that the Tower is in all respects completed and ady for the reception of the apparatus; that a fracture having occurred to certain portions of the latter during transport, ie expected exhibition of the light was unavoidably delayed.

Mariners and others are now informed that the light will almost certainly be exhibited about on and after the 15th June ext, 1878, and that the Tower already is a conspicuous available day mark.

Government of India.

JCHN LAING,

Commissioner of Crown Lands and Public Works.

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

[No. 18.]

BAY OF BENGAL-COROMANDEL COAST.

Red Lights on North Groin of Harbour Works, Madras.

rmation has been received from the Master Attendant of Madras that two Red Lights are now exhibited at the

of the North Groin of the Harbour Works, and will continue to be exhibited as the works.progress seaward.

e Red Lights are placed vertically, with a distance of six feet between the two, and are visible within the limits of By Direction of the Government of India,

t.

NE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 8th July 1878.

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

Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.

Notice will affect the following Charts:-Madras Roadstead, No. 105, and India, East Coast, Cape Comorin to Cocanada, No. 15 b, both by the Indian Marine Survey Department, Calcutta; also Admiralty Charts, Coromandel Coast, Nos. 71 c & d; India, East Coast, Cape morin to tocanaua, No. 828; Bay of Bengal, No. 70 a; and Indian Ocean, No. 748 h, alsu íarine Survey Department, and Admiralty Light lists (1878); and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. 1, page 459.

If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it could be inserted on the Charts affected by it, nd introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.

No. 154.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

The following Notification is issued in pursuance of Resolution No. "

uea

erence.

classes of

in writing,

1. Boys wishing to be newly admitted after the Summer Vacation to any of

the Government Central School are requested to forward their application to the Acting Inspector of Schools, on or before the 12th August, after which "date no application can be entertained for the present year.

2. Each application must contain the following particulars :-

(a.) Surname and name of applicant;

(b.) Year, month and day of his birth;

(c.) Surname, name and address of his parents, or guardians or referees, resident in

Hongkong;

(d.) Number of years he has been studying, and titles of books he has successively

read, stating for each year of study the principal reading book he used.

3. Each application should further be accompanied, if possible, by a certificate of character and attainments from the hand of the Master of the school which he last attended.

4. After having sent in his written application, as detailed above, each applicant is requested to present himself, in person, before the Acting Inspector of Schools, at the Government Central School, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 1 P.M. on Thursday, the 15th August, when each applicant, found qualified for admission in the sense of Resolution No. 2 of the Education Conference, will receive a ticket authorising him to present himself at the usual entrance examination at the Government Central School, which will be held on Tuesday, the 20th August, at 9 A.M., by the Acting Head Master of the Central School, who will himself determine the order of merit and consequent actual admission' into the Central School.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st August, 1878.

J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.