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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH FEBRUARY, 1870.

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

S

$

Oriental Bank Corporation,.

577,694

192,565

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,.

590,473

250,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,....

426,890

142,300

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,...................

1,268,651

500,000

TOTAL,.....

2,863,708

1,084,865

No. 17.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners, and others whon it may concern.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th February, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

The information contained in this notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the chart when the ship is navigating the parts to which it refers.

HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE.

[ No. 39. ]

CHINA PILOT.

NOTICE 15..

CHINA-EAST COAST.

The following description of a dangerous sunken rock off Tongmi Point, the eastern extreme of Hie-che-chin Bay,. Francis L. Palmer, Navigating Sub-Lieutenant, has been received from Commodore Oliver J. Jones.*

[All Bearings are Magnetic.]

SUWONADA ROCK, upon which a steamer of that name struck, lies in nearly mid-channel between Tongmi Point a the Tung-ki Rocks. It consists of two or three pinnacle rocks, with only eleven feet on them at low water springs, an and 9 fathoms close to. This dangerous patch is distant 4 cables from the west extreme of the Tung-ki Rocks, if a N. W. W. direction; Tongmi Point bearing N.W. by W. W., and Si-Ki Rock S.W. by W.

"No indication of these rocks was afforded by the discoloration of the water, and it is recommended that the pass between Tung-ki Rocks and the mainland be no longer used for the purposes of navigation.

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No. 1.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 20th November, 1869.

* See Admiralty Charts :-China, Eastern Coast, Sheets II and III, Nos. 1962 and 1963; also, China Pilot, page 94.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the M Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Ri Honorable Earl Granville, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, h been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-

No. 2 of 1869, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Ad of the Legislative Council thereof, to make further Provision in relation to Crimi Law and Procedure:

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirm as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st Day of January, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.