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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19ru FEBRUARY,
1870.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that, under the provisions of a Treasury Warrant dated the 7th December last, the scale of Progression of Weight having half-an-ounce for its unit, has been extended to all Letters forwarded between this Office and any of the Ports in China and Japan, and to letters addressed to Manila, Batavia, Saigon, Pondicherry, Bangkok, Labuan, Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Aden, Suez, Malta and the Ionian Islands, Gibraltar, and Spain and Portugal via Gibraltar.
The rates of postage chargeable in future on Letters addressed to these places will therefore advance by a single rate of postage for each half ounce.
General Post Office, Hongkong 14th February 1870.
No. 1.
PROCLAMATION.
[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
By His Excellency SIR. RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honorable Earl Granville, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-
Nɔ. 2 of 1869, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to make further Provision in relation to Criminal Law and Procedure:
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st Day of January, 1870.
No. 17.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.
By Command,.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th February, 1870.
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.
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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, b 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 an the Tung-ki Rocks. It consists of two or three pinnacle rocks, with only eleven feet on them at low water springs, and
This dangerous patch is distant 4 cables from the west extreme of the Tung-ki Rocks, in a N. b W. W. direction; Tongmi Point bearing N.W. by W. W., and Si-Ki Rock S.W. by W.
and 9 fathoms close to.
No indication of these rocks was afforded by the discoloration of the water, and it is recommended that the passag between Tung ki Rocks and the mainland be no longer used for the purposes of navigation.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 20th November, 1869.
* Sec Admiralty Charts :---China, Eastern Coast, Sheets II and III, Nos. 1962 and 1963; also, China Pilot, page 04.
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