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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JUXE, 1877.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
There will be communication with Australja viâ Batavia and Port Darwin, as follows:-
Leave Hongkong by French Packet,... ..July 7.
Sept. 15.
Nov. 29.
Leave Batavia, ....
.......July 20.
Oct. 1.
Dec. 13.
Due at Port Darwin,
....July 31.
Oct. 12.
Dec. 24.
1878.
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Sydney,
Ang. 19.
Oct. 31.
Jan. 12.
Melbourne,
...........Aug. 25.
Nov. 6.
Jan. 18.
Adelaide,
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Aug. 31.
Nov. 12.
Jan. 24.
For the present the correspondence can only be paid to Batavia, from which place it may possibly be forwarded without further charge.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 18th June, 1877.
ALFRED LISTER,
Postmaster General.
NOTICE.
It is hereby notified, that Ships conveying Chinese Passengers under the provisions of Ordinance No. 5 of 1874, will not be allowed to carry them on the Upper or Weather Deck between the 1st of June, and the 15th of October, inclusive.
Harbour Department, Hongkong, 10th May, 1877.
H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Emigration Officer, Sc.
No. 148.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1877.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 70.
CHINA SEA.
YANGTZE RIVER-CHINKIANG DISTRICT.
Mud Fort Light.
Notice is hereby given that a fixed white light is now regularly exhibited from a Sixth-Order Dioptric Lens Lante hoisted on a mast 120 feet in from the river's bank, and about 500 yards above Mud Fort Point, situated on the north bas of the river and a little to the eastward of the eastern end of the Nanking Cut-off or Straw-shoe Channel.
The centre of the Light is 66 feet above the present level of the river; in clear weather the light should be visible nautical miles.
By order of the Inspector General of Customs,
DAVID M. HENDERSON, Engineer-in-Chief.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS. ENGINEER'S OFFICE, SHANGHAI, 4th June, 1877.
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