THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST JULY, 1877.
NOTICE.
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Owners of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water, and Fire Brigade Rates, are hereby informed that the Rates for the Third Quarter of the year 1877, are payable in advance, during and within the Month of July next.
It is particularly requested that such Rates may be paid before the 31st of July, as after that date application will be made to the Supreme Court for the recovery of arrears.
CECIL C. SMITH,
Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 30th June, 1877.
Colonial Treasurer,
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, §c.
No. 163.
Under Storm Stir
Bare Poles....
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st July, 1877.
The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 59.]
CHINA-HAI-TAN STRAIT.
(1) Position of Ashuelot Rocks.
The following information relative to Ashuelot rocks, in the southern part of Hai-tan strait, has been received from Commander R. H. Napier, H.M. Surveying vessel Nassau:—
Ashuelot rocks consist of two pinnacles, lying East and West, distant 65 yards from each other.
The Western pinnacle has 4 feet over it at low water spring tides, with 6 fathoms close around, and bears N 20° E. from the summit of Pass island, distant 6 cables, and S. 73° W. from the centre of Low island, distant 2 cables,
The Eastern pinnacle has 14 fathoms over it, with 6 fathoms close around.
A detached rock with 34 fathoms over it, lies N.W. by N., half a cable from the Western pinnacle.
NOTE. This foul ground should be carefully avoided:--Station island kept open of the point inside Junk Sail rock leads through the channel westward of Ashuelot rocks.
EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO. JAVA-NORTH COAST.
(2) Proposed Lights at Iapara and Joana.
The Netherlands Government has given Notice, that it is proposed to establish a harbour light at fapară.
The light will be a fixed red light, shown from an iron post, 39 feet high.
Also, that it is proposed to establish a harbour light at Joana.
The light will be a fixed white light, shown from an iron post, visible from seaward through an are of 270°. The illuminating apparatus of both these lights will be dioptric or by lenses, of the sixth order.
[The Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 2° Westerly in 1877.]
By Command of their Lordships,
FREDK. YANS,
Hydrographer.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 11th May 1877.
This Notice affect: the following Admiralty Charts:-
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(1) Port Matheson to Ragged point, No. 1761; and Hai-tau Strait, No. 1985: Also, China Sen Directory, Vol. III., 1874, page 192. (2) Eastern Archipelago, No. 941 a; Java island anchorages, No. 932: Also, Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, &c., 1877, page 18; and Seaman's Guide round Jaya, pages 67 and 70.
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