No. 203.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH OCTOBER, 1878.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following Return, received from Mr. HENRY DICKIE, of the quantity of Spirits distilled by the China Sugar Refining Company, Limited, is published for general information.
Spirits manufactured during the quarter ending 10th October, 1878,
By Command,
Proof Gallons. 856
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th October, 1878.
No. 204.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Ilongkong, 12th October, 1878.
Government of Cape of Good Hope.
GOVERNMENT NOTICE.—No. 579, 1878.
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Public Works, Cape of Good Hope,
The publication is directed of the following Notice to Mariners.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. Cape St. Francis Light.
8th July, 1878.
Referring to a preliminary Notice by the Chief Inspector of Public Works, dated 17th July, 1877, which first appeared in the Government Gazo** of thi Colony of 20th July, 1877, and to a Government Notice No. 348 of 1878 of 29th April, 1878, which first appea
information concern'
light was first exhib
The light is a sto
sunset and sunrise.
clear weather, about sixteen-
Le Government Gazette of 30th April, 1878, subjoined to the former, and affording further and light proposed to be exhibited at Cape St. Francis; it is now hereby notified that the ght of Thus, 4th July, 1978, and will contin to be disn red, henceforward between
lophotal revolving white light, tughing at intervals of twente the sea.
y seconds, and is visible, in
L
The tower has been built upon a low point (Seal Point), situated and thre rinted in the two former Notices above e quarters miles from the deck of vessel, fifteen-quarters miles westward of Cape St. Francis, and is in Latitude 34° 12′ 30′′ south (not 34° 22′ 30," as was err alluded to); Longitude 24° 50′ 20′′ East, of Greenwich.
eously
The tower is a cylindrical stone structure, ninety-one feet high, and . hundred and eighteen feet above the level of high water.
Caution.
is a good day mark: the focal plane is one
The following are special points of difference between this tower and light, and those at Cape Recife (45 miles to the Eastward).
The tower at Cape St. Francis is wholly white, that at Cape Recife is painted in horizontal bands alternate red and white.
The light at Cape St. Francis is revolving white, shewing a bright flash every twenty seconds; that at Cape Recife is revolving white, artaining a maximum of brightness and completing its phases once every minute.
JOHN LAING, Commissioner.
GOVERNMENT NOTICE.-No. 550, 1878.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Cape of Good Hope, 27th June 1878.
The following Correspondence, received from the Commodore Commanding, relative to the erection of a Beacon at Pelican Point, Walwich Bay, is hereby published for general information.
His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir BARTLE FRERE, Bart.,
J. GORDON SPRIGG, Colonial Secretary.
Active, in Simon's Bay, 19th June, 1878.
G. C. B., G., C. S. I., &c., &c., &c., Governor and High Commissioner. SIR,-I have the honour to forward herewith, for your Excellency's information, a copy of a report I have received from Captain PURVIS, of H. M. S. Dane, acquainting me of the results of his visit to Walwich Bay, and enclosing a Notice of a Beacon erected at Pelican Point, which I request may be made public for the guidance of trading Vessels visiting that place.
I have the honour to be,
Your Excellency's obedient Servant,
(Signed)
F. W. SULLIVAN, Commodore.
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