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No. 144.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH AUGUST, 1875.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1875.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The wreck of the Pacific Mail Steam-ship Japan lies 19 miles S. S. E. of Breaker Point: four buoys with red flags mark the locality, and the steamer Washi is anchored over the wreck; Masters of vessels are requested to avoid a near approach at night; the current running at times three
miles an hour.
This information has been obtained from the Captain of the Washi.
Harbour Department, Hongkong, 13th August, 1875.
No. 145.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
J. P. MCEUEN,
Acting Harbour Master, &c.
At the request of the Acting Consul for Denmark, His Excellency the Administrator is pleased to direct the publication of the following Notice for the information of Shipinasters.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1875.
On the Island of Hongkong the Company's Cable is landed in the middle of Deep Water Bay from where it runs about South midway between Middle Island and Hongkong Island round Round Island curving S.E. and E. midway between Tytam Peninsula on Hongkong Island and Lochau Island and midway between Tylong Head (Cape d'Aguilar) and Soon Kong from which place it runs East for about a hundred miles, then gradually bending Northward in a distance 25 to 30 miles off the Coast of China.
At 25 miles S.S.E. of Chapel Island a cable branches off and runs N.N.W. two miles to the North- ward of Chapel Island between Woo Sen and Chanchat Rocks, close North of Tsing Seu, close North of Taepan Shoal and close under Taepan Point from where it runs in a straight line to the landing place which is just inside the Southern point of the Island of Kulang Seu.
From 25 miles outside Chapel Island the Cable runs N.E. about 30 miles outside Chimmo, 15 miles off Turnabout, 30 miles off Teng Ying, from which place it bends more Northward 35 miles of Pih Ki Shan, 20 miles off the Hie Shan Island, 30 miles off Tong Ting to North of the Lenconna group where it rounds and turns West until it at a point midway between the Northernmost Island of the Chin San group runs within a mile South of Davis Islands and S.W. and W. of Morrison Island up to Gutzlaff where it is landed on the South West Side.
Starting from the same place on Gutzlaff two cables follow the East and North side of the Yangtze River's South Bank, as near inshore on the bank as possible right up to Pheasant Point where they turn into the Woosung River along the right bank until they cross the Woosung River close beneath the Bar marks and are landed on the left bank at the Company's station.
From Gutzlaff the cable to Nagasaki is running S.E. midway between Napiers and Bonhams Islands and midway between Bonhams and Brookes Islands, then Easterly North of Childers Rock and four miles South of Bowen Islands, from which place it runs in a straight line about E.N.E. till midway between Pallas Rock and Meac Sima (Asses' Ears) on the coast of Japan.
No. 146.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Administrator has been pleased to appoint W. KESWICK, Esquire, to be provisionally a Member of the Legislative Council, vice the Honourable J. WHITTALL, resigned.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th August, 1875.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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