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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH APRIL, 1875.
VOL. XXI.
No. 18.
No. 74.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th April, 1875.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 42.
CHINA SEA.
AMOY DISTRICT.
Tsing-seu Lighthouse.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given that the lighthouse works on the northern slope of Tsing-seu Island, at the entrance to the outer harbour of Amoy, have been commenced.
The illuminating apparatus will be fired Dioptric, of the Fourth Order, showing a white light from about N. 54° W. round by W. and S. to S. 50° E. and a red light over the Chauchat Rocks and Taepan Shoal. The bearings are magnetic and taken from seaward.
The light will be elevated about 125 feet above the level of the sea, and, in clear weather, the white light should be visible at a distance of 15 nautical miles.
The tower will be octagonal, of stone and brick, 20 feet high, with a total height from its base to the lantern vane of 33 feet.
The tower will be painted in alternate red and white vertical stripes, and the dwellings white.
Approximate position:-Latitude, N. 24° 221. Longitude, E. 118° 71'.
By order of the Inspector General of Customs,
DAVID M. HENDERSON,
Engineer-in-Chief.
ENGINEER'S OFFICE, CUSTOM HOUSE, SHANGHAI, 10th April, 1875.
No. 75.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Administrator is pleased to appoint provisionally, and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, ALFRED LISTER, Esquire, to be Acting Postmaster General and Collector of Stamp Revenue, vice MITCHELL retired on a Pension.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th April, 1875.
No. 76.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Administrator is pleased to appoint provisionally, and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, Esquire, to act as Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils, vice LISTER, Acting Postmaster General.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th April, 1875.
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