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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1877.

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At half a mile outside and eastward of Reddie point, the flood stream sets to north, at the Fairway buoy to north-west, whilst midway between the buoy and Reddie point it sets to W.S.W. Great attention, therefore, is necessary in entering the port on a flood tide.

In the offing the flood sets to north-east, the cbb to south-west, at a rate of about one knot per hour; but the velocity is much influenced by the prevailing wind, so that the flood stream in the south-west monsoon attains sometimes a speed of 4 knots.

Supplies, Trade, &c.-Inferior water can be procured at Hookey Tollah, free of expense, by using the vessels' boats, and good water at Marsaghai, situated about 30 miles up the Bacood creek. Firewood is plentiful and cheap.

Provisions are scarce and expensive; sheep, vegetables, &c., can be obtained from Cuttack, and from villages within a radius of 20 miles.

False Point is the port of Cuttack and the Orissa district: the imports are principally Birmingham and Manchester goods; exports, rice and various seeds.

Directions.—Vessels bound to False Point outer anchorage in the south-west monsoon, on approaching the light-house, should not shoal into less than 10 fathoms. When the light-house bears N.W. distant 4 miles, in soundings of 10 fathoms, olive mud bottom, alter course to N.N.E. for about 7 miles, or until the tripod on Dowdeswell island bears N.W. W. Thence a N.W. N. course for about 3 miles will place a vessel in about 7 fathoms mud, one mile off shore, with Dowdeswell tripod bearing west. Haul in gradually until Temple trec, the Jamboo location buildings and flagstaff, on the west shore of the bay, are well opened to the northward of Dowdeswell island, and anchor as convenient.

If proceeding to the inner anchorage, round Reddie point at about 2 cables distance, taking care to guard against an eddy, extending from the pitch of the point to the 3-fathom line, and steer up the harbour with Plowden beacont and False Point light-house in line, bearing S. by W. W., to the required anchorage.

Commander Taylor observes that with a strong flood-stream (which will reveal itself by drifting a vessel rapidly to the northward), it will be found best to steer in on a southerly course, bringing the vessel's head to east and north-eastward, through the S.E. quadrant, so as to breast the tide before anchoring. Instances have occurred of steamers steering in towards Reddie point, and attempting to turn to starboard, or through south-west and north-west, on the flood-tide; thus they were rapidly swept across (see tides) the channel to the westward, and grounded in the shoal water extending from Temple point.

From abreast Hookey Tollah, where a flat or receiving hulk is moored, boat channels, winding through mud banks and partially buoyed, lead to the Bacood and Jumboo creeks. There is also a channel, available for boats, through mud flats and inangrove, leading to False Point light-house; the banks on either side being marked by bamboos.

The channel to Jumboo is the deepest, and at high-water is navigable for vessels of 10 feet draught. The Bacood channel, although shallower than the Jumboo, is at present the highway to Cuttack. recommended that the services of a local pilot should be obtained, as they alter from time to time, consequent on the large In navigating these channels, it is quantities of detritus and silt brought down in solution from the upper portion of the Mahanuddy, necessitating frequent changes in the position of the buoys and bamboos denoting the fairway.

THE

Marine Survey Department, Calcutta, 29th December, 1876.

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It is recommended that this beacon, being small, should be replaced by a larger one.

NOTICE.

HE next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court, will be held on Monday, the Nineteenth day of February, A.D., 1877, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon.

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By Order of the Court,

F. S. HUFFAM, Acting Registrar.

SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

NTIL further notice, the Court will sit in its Original Jurisdiction on Mondays and Thursdays.

By Order,

F. S. HUFFAM, Acting Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

NOTICE ERNEST, GRELIER of No. 31,

Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong, Litho- grapher, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication in Bankruptcy, filed in the Supreme Court of Hongkong in Bank- ruptcy, on the Twentieth day of January, A.D. 1877, a public sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination, and make application for his order of discharge, will be held before the Honourable Sir John Smale, Knight, Chief Justice of the said Court, at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, Hongkong, on Monday, the 26th day of February instant, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely.

Frederick Sowley Huffam, Esquire, is the Official Assignee, and Henry Lardner Dennys, Esquire, the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.

16, Bank Buildings,

Hongkong, 10th February, 1877.

NOTICE.

HЕ authority given Mr. ALFRED HERTZ to

withdrawn.

CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 16th February, 1877.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE

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COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE Eighth Ordinary Annual Meeting of Share- holders in the above Company, will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 7, Queen's Road, on Tuesday, the 20th February next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, to receive a statement of accounts for the year 1876, the Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditors.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited. Hongkong, 20th January, 1877.

NOTICE.

ALL Claims against the Estate of the late

Mr. FRANCISCO A. SEABRA must be sent

in on or before Friday, the 1st May, 1877, and all persons indebted to the said Estate are re- quested to make immediate payment to

ANNA P. SEABRA, Administratrix.

Hongkong, 3rd February, 1877.

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NOTICE.

R. FRITZ LANCKEN'S interest and res- ponsibility in our firm ceased on the 31st December last.

WM. PUSTAU & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1877.

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NOTICE.

R. J. F. CORDES' interest and responsibi- lity in our Firm ceased on the 31st Decem- ber last.

WM. PUSTAU & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1877.

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