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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH MARCH, 1876.

VOL. XXII.

No. 13.

No. 61.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.

By Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd March, 1876.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 55.

CHINA SEA,

YANGTZE RIVER.-SHANGHAI DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Junk has carried away the mast which formerly marked the wreck of the Lismore. A Black Nun Buoy has been temporarily moored immediately below the wreck and in line with it and the Woosung Lighthouse.

A Green Wreck Buoy, with the word "WRECK" painted on it in white letters, will shortly replace the above-men- tioned black buoy,

By order of the Inspector General of Customs,

DAVID M. HENDERSON,

Engineer-in-Chief.

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS, ENGINEER'S OFFICE, SHANGHAI, 11th March, 1876.

NB.The mast above referred to is the one described at page 17, Beacon No. 27, Fourth Issue of List of Chinese Lights for 1876.

No. 57.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., &c., is pleased to direct the publication of the names of the Government Board of Examiners in the Chinese Language for general information.

The Board consists of:-

FREDERICK STEWART, M.A., Esquire, Chairman.

JAMES RUSSELL, Esquire.

The Revd. E. J. EITEL, Ph. D., Director of Chinese Studies. WONG SHING, Esquire.

ALFRED LISTER, Esquire, Secretary.

All communications to the Board must be addressed to the Secretary, and, if proceeding from a person in the Government service, must pass through the Head of his Department.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1876.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.