398 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1877.
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN Reserve.
$
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,
323,218
200,000
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,.
750,375
260,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
542,766
200,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
1,623,138
600,000
TOTAL,........
.$
3,239,497
1,260,000
No. 192.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th September, 1877.
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Government of India.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 14.)
CEYLON-SOUTH COAST.
Buoy Marking Gindurah Rock,
The Master Attendant, Galle, has given notice that an iron buoy, painted red, has been laid in 11 fathoris, about 2 cables to the southward of Gindurah rock, from which Edwards' pillar is just open south of the Light-house.
Gindurah rock, on which the sea does not always break, is highly dangerous, having only 9 feet water over its shoalest part; between it and the buoy the ground is foul.
Vessels making for Calle Harbour from the westward and northward will, by keeping the Light-house on an E. by N. bearing, pass nearly 2 miles south of Ginduralı rock and clear of the Whale rocks; southward of this bearing the ground is
clear.
Vessels requiring a Pilot should heave to with the Light-house bearing from N.-E. to N.-N.-E., distant about one mile, thus avoiding the Cadda rocks off the entrance to the Port.
The outer Cadda rock is marked by a red buoy. Should the buoy be out of its place, the danger which it marks will be avoided by keeping Ereminia Galle point well open off Oonawatty point; these points in line lead on to the Cadda rock...
The present Admiralty Chart of the approaches to Galle Harbour, No. 819, must be used with caution, as the point above mentioned, delineated thereon, are three-quarters of a point out of bearing.
By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 27th July 1877.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Approaches to Point de Galle Harbour, No. 819; Ceylon Island, No. 813; and Bay of Bengal No. 70a also, Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 430.
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 15.)
SINDH COAST-KURRACHEE.
1. Alteration in Manora Point Light.
With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 1 of 20th March 1877, on the intended alteration in Manora point light,- The Harbour Authorities at Kurrachee have further notified that, on the 15th August 1877, the present light will be discontinued and the new revolving light exhibited, which will attain its greatest brilliancy every 2 minutes, and be visible from a distance of 20 miles in every direction seaward.
Position-Lat. 24° 47′ 21′′ N.; long. 66° 58′ 15′′ E.
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