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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH JUNE, 1872.
your report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. And I do hereby empower you, during the course, and for the purposes of your said Commission, to demand and obtain access at all times to all Papers, Records, and Documents, relating to the subject matter of the said Commission being. in the custody and under the control of the several Public Departments within this Colony. And from time to time to call before you and examine all Persons superintending or employed in or under any of the said Departments. And I do hereby charge all Persons in the Public Service to be aiding. and assisting unto you herein.
Given under my Hand, and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria. in the said Colony, this 8th Day of June, A.D., One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-two.
No. 128.
By His Excellency's Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that a Despatch has been received from the Right Honorable the SECRETARY C STATE for the Colonies, conveying His Lordship's approval of the appointment of the Honorable HENRY Lowcock and the Honorable JAMES GREIG to act temporarily as Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th June, 1872.
No. 129.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th June, 1872.
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.
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JAVA-SOURABAYA STRAIT.
Fixed Light at Kresik, or Grissee, Harbour.
The Netherlands Government has given Notice, that a light is now exhibited at Kresik, or Grissee, harbour in Sourabaya strait. The light is a fixed white light, elevated 42 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 8 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the sixth order. Position, lat. 7° 9′ S., long. 112° 40′ E.
Alteration in Position of Sourabaya Light-Vessel.
Also, that the light-vessel at the North entrance of Sourabaya strait has been moved to the position of the third white buoy to the southward of the vessel. Its present position is in lat. 6° 57′ 30′′ S., long. 112° 38′ E.
SUNDA STRAIT.
Additional Light in Fourth Point Lighthouse.
Also, that an additional fixed white light, which should be seen 8 miles, is exhibited from the Fourth point lighthouse in Sunda strait, visible in the line of the Telegraph cable.
NOTE.-Vessels are warned not to anchor with the two lights in sight, or in the day time with the lighthouse bearing from S. E. S. and E. by S. 3 S.
Between Fourth point and Anjer the line of the cable is marked with three white buoys.
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 12th February 1872.
GEO. HENRY RICHARDS, Hydrographer.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Eastern Archipelago, No. 941 a, b; Australia, No. 2759 a; Indian Ocean, No. 748 b: Sourabaya strait, No. 934; and Sunda strait, &c., No. 2056. Also, East India Lights List, Nos. 121 and 108.
Agent for the Sale of Admiralty Charts, Mr. J. D. POTTER, 31, Poultry, London, E.C.
Νο. 130.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Table of Meteorological Observations, taken at the Government Civil Hospital during the Month of May, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th June, 1872.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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