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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12rn JULY, 1873.
The light exhibited will be the same as before; that is a revolving white one, giving flashes at half-minute intervals. During fogs, a fog bell will be sounded at regular intervals, by clockwork, in place of the steam fog horn.
By order of the Inspector General of Customs.
DAVID M. HENDERSON, Engineer-in-Chief.
Engineers' Office, Custom House, Shanghai, 1st July, 1873.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
No. 113.
The following Marine Notification received from the Government of India, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th July, 1873.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Government of India,
MARINE DEPARTMENT.
No. 6.
FORT WILLIAM, the 17th June 1873.
MARINE NOTIFICATION.
21st May 1873.
The following notice received from the Colonial Secretary, Cape of Good Hope, is published for general information:
Change in light at the Bird Islands, Cape of Good Hope.
With reference to my notice dated 1st November 1872, which appeared in the Government Gazette on the Sch November, notifying that a fixed white light of the third class, Dioptric, would be substituted for the present double lights at the Bird Islands early in the year 1878,-Notics is now given that the original intention has been abandoned, and that instead of a white light, a fixed red light of the third class, Dioptric, will be exhibited at the Bird Islands on or about the 1st April next.
Sailing directions will be published at an early date.
PUBLIC WORKS Department,
No. 107.
17th February 1873.
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(Signed)
M. R. ROBINSON, C. E.,
Chief Inspr. of Public Works.
B. E. BACON, Colonel, Offg. Secy, to the Govt. of India.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Extract from a Report by Navigating Lieutenant WEBSTER, of Her Majesty's Ship Princess Charlotte, received from Commodore SHORTT, respecting the position of the Rock on which the P. & O. Company's Steam-ship Bokhara struck when leaving Hongkong on the 21st ultimo,-is pu- blished for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd July, 1873.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Extract of Report addressed to Commodore SHORTT by Navigating Lieutenant WEBSTER, dated 30th June, 1873.
"The Rock is between 25 and 30 feet in length, laying in about a W.N.W. and E.S.E. "direction, having between 4 and 5 fathoms on it at low water, with the exception of its Eastern extreme, which is a bluff pinnacle rock about 4 feet square at the summit, with 18 feet on it at "low water Spring Tides, and 7 fathoms close to. There are 10 fathoms all round the rock.
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"The bearings from the pinnacle rock are the West extreme of Lochau Island, half-a-point open of the South extreme of the Islets off Cape d'Aguilar, S.W.; Cape d'Aguilar, S. 53 W. 7 Cables; Tathong rock, N. 15 W. 13 Cables; S. E. extreme of Tung-lung, N. 36 E."
NOTICE.
“BOKHARA" ROCK, 18 FEET, L.W.S.
Ships bound to the Southward from Hongkong through the Tathong Channel are recommended to keep in the centre of that Channel; and, if intending to proceed through the Shing-shi-moon Pass not to bring Tathong Rock to bear to the Northward of N.N.W. until Tytam Head is well open of the Southernmost Islet off Cape d'Aguilar.
Sailing vessels beating through the Channel, when to the Southward of the Tathong Rock and standing to the Wesward, should tack before the Islet to the Ń.W. of Sun-kong comes on with that Island,
H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.
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