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No. 22.
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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MARCII, 1870.
certain Cases.
Provision for XIV. In Case it shall at any Time be shown to the Satisfaction Repeal of
of the Governor in Council that the Corporation have ceased or Ordinance in neglected or failed to carry out in a proper Manner the Object and Purposes of this Ordinance or to fulfil the Conditions thereof or that sufficient Funds cannot be obtained by Voluntary Contribu- tions to defray the necessary Expenses of Maintaining the said Hospital or that the Corporation is unable for any Reason to pay its Debts, it shall be lawful for the Governor with the Advice of the Legislative Council of the Colony by an Ordinance to be passed for that Purpose to repeal this Ordinance and to declare that the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease and determine and become absolutely void. Provided always that Three Months' Notice of the Governor's Intention to pass such an Ordinance shall be pre- viously given to the Corporation.
In Case of Repeal of Ordinance, Property of
XV. In Case the Corporation hereby granted shall cease under the Provisons of the last preceding Section, all the Property and Assets of the Corporation shall become vested in the Crown l Corporation to ject to the rateable Payment thereont of the just Debts and vest in Crown. Liabilities of the Corporation, to the Extent of such Property and Assets and in such Manner as shall be provided by the Repealing Ordinance or by any Order to be made in that behalf by the Governor in Council.
Provisa for Payment of Debts.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners and others whom it may concern.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th 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. 41.
CHINA SEA DIRECTORY.
VOL. II. NOTICE No. 5
TONG-KING GULF.
The following notice relating to the coasts of Cochin China and Hainan island has been compiled from information received from Lieutenant Rodney M. Lloyd, commanding H.M.S. Bouncer.*
(All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1° 30′ Easterly in 1869.) COCHIN CHINA COAST.
Choukshan:-The Mandarins informed Lieutenant Lloyd that the boundary line between China and Cochin China commenced at Choukshan, and not at Cape Pahklung as shown on the chart.
Echun Island, about 22 miles S.S.W. from Choukshan, is about 2 miles long by 14 wide; there is a reef and an islet off its eastern. shore.
On the main land, and 9 miles west from Echun island, is an entrance, half a mile wide and 7 fathoms deep, leading into what ap- peared to be a small inland sea, bounded on all sides except the west by islands. There seemed to be other channels 7 or 8 miles apart between the large islands forming the sea front of this inland sea. From a distance these islands may be taken for the main land.
Chung-lan Island lies about 6 miles from Echun island; it is 3 miles long, by about 2 broad, and forms with Gow-tow island a good harbour, the southern entrance being about half a mile wide, and the northern from 2 to 3 miles across; the anchorage is under the south-west extreme of Chung-lan, and from it the centre of Gow-tow island bore S.W. by W. There is also a good typhoon anchorage for small vessels uear the centre of its western side. A reef about three quarters of a mile in extent, and awash at high water, runs out in a south-east direction from the southern shore. Fresh water can be obtained here, but it is hard and brackish at high water.
Gow-tow Island is not more than 24 miles across, although on the chart it is about 7. A reef, awash at high water, nearly 1 cables long, running N.E. and S.W., lies about 3 miles from the north-west point: this point may be rounded close to. There is a reef bearing West, distant 4 miles from the anchorage in Sha-pak-wan, the bay on the western side of the island. In the centre of this bay about 1 miles from the shore is a cluster of dangerous rocks awash at low water, bearing S.W. by S. from its north-west point, and a reef, break- ing in bad weather, extends for about 24 cables to the south-west from the south-western point of the bay.
There is a channel with 2 or 3 fathoms at low water between Gow-tow and the island three quarters of a mile northward of it, but a reef runs along the north-east shore of Gow-tow, coming close to the beach on its northern side. The best channel is found by keeping
close to this reef.
South-west of Gow-tow is an archipelago of small grotesquely-shaped islands and pyramidical rocks, covered with thick jungle in- terspersed with patches of lawn; they rise to a height of about 130 feet, and are steep to; numerous caverns are to be found on their shores, in some cases forming natural arches, having a depth of from 3 to 9 fathoms underneath them. There are some rocks awash bearing S.S.E. about 24 cables from the southern islands of this group.
The main land recedes from the general run of the coast line in the neighbourhood of these islands, forming a bay about 13 miles deep, named Fietze-loong.
Ounong or Apowan:--Is a point of the main land near the southern extremity of the above archipelago, forming the southern point of Fictze-loong bay; there is a passage to the northward of Ounong for small vessels leading out below the small town of Fafung, which
lies to the north-west.
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HAINAN-WEST COAST.
Manu Harbour:--There is a reef half a mile off the western point of entrance to this harbour.
The coast from this point takes a more westerly direction than shown on the chart, the latitudes obtained by observation placing the different headlands 10 miles to the northward of their present position.
* See Admiralty Charts:-China Sea, No. 2661a; Cochin China, Sheet III., No. 1261; Tong-king gulf, No. 2062: Also China Sea Directory, Vol. II., pagri 367 and 371; and Hydrographic Notice, No. 20 of 1868,
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