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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 55.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND DECEMBER, 1877.
VOL. XXIII.
No. 260.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Notice is hereby given, that Government Notification No. 255 of the 13th instant, calling for Tenders for the Public Scavenging of the City of Victoria, is cancelled.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1877.
No. 261.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon of the 27th instant, for constructing a Main Sewer along St. Francis Street, Wanchai.
Specification and Plan can be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.
The Government will not bind itself to accept the lowest or any Tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st December, 1877.
No. 262.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd December, 1877.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 78.
CHINA SEA.
YANGTZE RIVER.-SHANGHAI DISTRICT. "Lismore" Wreck Light.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given that the "Lismore" Wreck screw-pile tower will be removed as soon as practicable, in consequence of the rapid deepening of the water around its foundations.
A fixed red light will be shown from the tower as long as possible. On the discontinuance of this light a red light and a white light underneath it will be exhibited from a small junk inoored about 400 feet to the N. 22° 30′ E. of the present
tower.
Woosung Lighthouse.
In consequence of the removal of the above-mentioned Lighthouse, the red sector of light, formerly exhibited from the Woosung Lighthouse and over the port side of the channel on entering, will be resumed.
This light will therefore show:-
White between the bank of the Yangtze to the westward of the lighthouse and S. 3° 15′ E.
Green between S. 3° 15′ E. and S. 53° 45′ W.
White Red
S. 53° 45′ W. and S. 70° 30′ W., and
"
S. 70° 30′ W. and the left bank of the Woosung River.
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By order of the Inspector General of Customs,
The bearings are magnetic and taken from seaward.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS, ENGINEERS' OFFICE, SHANGHAI, 6th December, 1877.
DAVID M. HENDERSON,
Engineer-in-Chief.
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