No. 182.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1873.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following Notices to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th November, 1873.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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. 18.]
JAPAN-SIMONOSEKI STRAIT.
(1) Temporary Light on Shirasu (Low Reef).
The Japanese Government has given Notice, that from the 1st December 1872, a temporary light would be exhibited from the lighthouse recently erected on Shirasu (Low reef), western entrance of Simonoseki strait.
The light is a fixed red light, elevated 42 feet above the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 10 miles.
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The lighthouse, a square wooden building, painted white, is situated on the scuthern end of the reef, and about one and a half miles south-westward from Ai-sima. Position, iat. 33° 59′30′′ N., long. 130° 47′ 24′′ E.
LINSCHOTEN ISLANDS.
(2) Breaker near Kutsino-sima.
Information has been received, that Captain W. T. Quayle, of the barque Frances Henty, observed breakers between
4 and 5 miles to the north-westward of Kutsiño-sima, one of the Linschoten islands.
The breakers were about 2 cables in extent, and from bearings taken near them, the approximate position is in lat. 30° 7′ 40′′ N., long, 120° 54′ E.
(3) Breaker in Vincennes Strait.
Heavy breakers are reported to have been seen on the south side of Vincennes strait, Linschoten islands, by the ship Maleern; from it the south point of Tanega-sima (Karasaki) bore N. E., and the south point of Yakuno-sima west. These bearings place the danger approximately in lat. 30° 14′ N., long, 130° 53′′E.
NOT.-Mariners should be cautious in reporting the existence of reefs in the neighbourhood of the Linschoten islands, as the Sailing Directions remark that strong tide rips are frequently met with in this locality, often resembling heavy breakers
on reefs or shoals.
CHINA-YANG-TSZE RIVER.
(4) Disappearance of Blockhouse Shoal Beacon.
The Engineers' Office at Shanghai has given Notice, that the Blockhouse iron-screw-pile beacon has disappeared, and that a red boy surmo ated by a staff and cage has been moored on the south-east extremity of the shoal in 10 feet water, with Kintoan lighthouse bearing S. S. W. § W., and Kiutoan sinall beacon W. by N. ₫ N.
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 21° Westerly in 1873.]
By Comraand of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 15th February 1873.
GEO. HENRY RICHARDS,
Hydrographer.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-
(1) Nipon, Kiusiu, &c., No. 2347; Simonoscki strait, No. 532; Hirudo-no-soto to Simonoseki strait, No. 127; and western coast of Kiusiu and Nipen, No. 358: Also, Chink Pilot, 4th edition, page 480.
(2 and 2) Islands between Fermosa and Japan, No. 2412; and Kamschatka tó Chusan, No. 2459, Also, China Pilot, 4th edition, page 441.
(4) Yang-ise-Kiang entrance, No. 1602; Yaug-tse-Kiang to Nanking, No. 1480; and Hieshan islands to Yang-tse-Kiang, No. 119: Also, China Bot, 4th edition, page 211.
Agent for the Sale of Admiralty Charts, Mr. J. D. Porten, 31, Poultry, Landon, E.C.
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