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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 27.
No. 109.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH JULY, 1874.
VOL. XX.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Honorable CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH having returned from vacation leave, has resumed the duties of Acting Treasurer and Registrar General.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd July, 1874.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 110.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, is published for general information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd July, 1874.
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. 57.]
CHINA EAST COAST.
Fixed Lights on High Lamock Island.
With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 83, dated 10th September 1873, on the intended exhibition of two lights on High Lamock island:-
1874.
The Engineers Office, Swatow, has given further Notice, that the lights have been exhibited since the 18th February
High light, is a fixed white light elevated 241 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 22 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the first order.
The tower, 54 feet high, is built of cast iron and painted black; the dwellings and boundary wall are white. Appro- ximate position, lat. 23° 14′ 50′′ N., long. 117° 17′ 30′′ E.
Low light, is a fixed red light, visible between the bearings N.E. by N. and N.E. E., and covering the White and Boat rocks it is elevated 55 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 7 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the fourth order.
The light is exhibited from a window in a white building erected on the southern slope of the island, and is intended as a guide to Mariners in keeping clear of the White rocks and Boat rocks.
[All Bearings are Magnetic. No variation in 1874.]
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 7th May 1874.
FREDK. J. EVANS, Hydrographer.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :-China Sea, No. 2661 b; Chelang point to Chauan bay, No. 1693; Namoa island, No. 1957; Formosa island and strait, No. 1968; and Hong Kong to Liautung, No. 1262: Also, the Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, East Indies, China, Japan, Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, 1874, No. 161, and China pilot, 4th edition, page 105.
Agent for the Sale of Admiralty Charts, Mr. J. D. POTTER, 31, Poultry, London, E.C.
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