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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 27.

No. 114.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 26TH JUNE, 1875.

VOL. XXI.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Report of the Marine Court of Inquiry into the collision of the British Steamer Zambesi, Official Number 68,413, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th June, 1875.

FINDING OF THE COURT.

At 2 P.M. on the 17th day of June, 1875, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-ship Zambesi, Official Number 68,413, GEORGE FREDERICK CATES, Master, Number of whose Certificate of Competency is 3,055, when entering the Harbor of Victoria, came into collision with a Fishing Junk of 800 piculs burden, on board which were four men, four women, and seven children.

The Fishing Junk was submerged, and one man and five children drowned or missing. The Court finds that the collision was unavoidable, and no blame attributable to the Captain or Officers of the Zambesi.

The Court has therefore returned the Certificate to the Master. Given under our hands at Hongkong, this 19th day of June, 1875.

C. MAY,

First Police Magistrate.

J. P. MCEUEN, R.N., Acting Harbor Master, &c.

ROBT. MCMURDO,

R. H. CAIRNS,

M. BRACE,

Un-Official Justice of the Peace.

Government Marine Surveyor. Master, British Steamer “ Nankin.”

Confirmed,

No. 115.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Administrator and Commander-in-Chief.

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, 24th June, 1875.

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. 56.]

CHINA-PE-CHILI STRAIT-SHANTUNG.

Fixed Light at Teng-chau.

Information has been received, that a light is now exhibited from a lighthouse on Teng-chau bluff, Miau-tau strait. The light is a fixed white light, visible between the bearings of West, through South, to S.E. S.; in clear weather it should be seen from a distance of 10 miles.