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tion in the characteristics of the Waglan Island Light-station fog signal :-

"From noon March 15th and until further notice Waglan Lighthouse will fire two explosive fog signals every 12 minutes with interval of 15 seconds. between them.”

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 16th March, 1920.

TRANSLATION.

H. E. HILLMAN, Acting Coast Inspector.

Notifications Nos. 204, 258, and 354 of Department of Communications.

(No. 204)

W. Coast of Kyushu.

NOTICE is hereby given that the report from Fukuoka Prefecture has been received, in which Miike-ko No. 4 Lighted Buoy, inside of Breakwater, Miike Harbour, Shimabara Gulf, Province of Chikugo, had been extinguished on account of damage to the apparatus,.. and will remain so until the repairing be finished.

(Tokyo, February 17th, 1920.)

(No. 238)

N. Coast of Kyushu.

Notice is hereby given that the following Temporary Staff Light has been established on behalf of Okino-shima Staff Light which was destroyed by fire (see Notification No. 1551 of Department of Communications, December, 1919), and been exhibited since the 17th of February.

(No. 354)

(Tokyo, February 21st, 1920.)

Okino-shima Temporary Staff Light.

Position -On Okino-shima in Tsushima Strait.

Description:Wooden staff, white.

Height of light :----25 shaku above the base, 805 shaku above the water.

Character of light :-Fixed white.

Illuminated are:- Whole horizon.

Power: -80 candles.

Visible distance :-8 nautical miles in clear night.

Inland Sea.

Notice is hereby given that Mitsugahama Lighthouse, Mitsugahama Harbour, Pro- vince of Iyo, has been permanently withdrawn since the 29th of February.

TOKYO, March 9th, 1920.

UTARO NODA,

Minister of State for Communications.

Approaches to Bombay.

FROM about 1st March to about 1st May, 1920, the Unattended Bombay Floating Light-vessel will be withdrawn from her station and replaced by a Light-vessel painted red and having three masts :-

By Day-She will carry a red ball at the main mast head.

By Night She will exhibit a white light revolving once in every 20 seconds at a height 36 feet above the water line, visible all round the horizon at a distance in clear weather of 10 miles.

C. S. HICKMAN, D.S.O.,

Captain, R.I.M., Port Officer, Bombay.

PORT. OFFICE,

BOMBAY, 25th February, 1920.