704366-1870-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MARCH, 1870.

PROCLAMATION.

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

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His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most ble Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its (eg podencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right able Earl GRANVILLE, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have sea revived, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-

No. 3 of 1869, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to empower His Excellency the Governor in Council to grant Licenses for the Distillation of Spirits and the Rectifying and Compounding thereof within the Colony:

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed,

By His Excellency's Command,

na akoresaid.

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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 3rd Day of March, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners and others whom

av concern.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th February, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

the caformation 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 islaud has been compiled from information received from rant Rodney M. Lloyd, commanding II.M.S. Bouncer.*

(All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1o 30' Easterly in 1869.) COCHIN CHINA COAST.

skolan --The Mandarins informed Lieutenant Lloyd that the boundary line between China and Cochin China commenced at 1, and not at Cape Pahklung as shown on the chart.

Jan Island, about 22 miles S.S.W. from Choukshan, is about 2 miles long by 1 wide; there is a reef and an islet off its eastern

main land, and 9 miles west from Echun island, is au entrance, half a mile wide and 7 fathoms deep, leading into what ap- a small inland sea, bouwled on all sides except the west by islands. There seemed to be other channels 7 or 8 miles apart large islands forming the sea front of this inland sea. From a distance these islauds may be taken for the main land.

• Island lies about 6 miles from Echun island; it is 3 miles long, by about 2 broad, and forms with Gow-tow island a r, the southern entrance being about half a mile wide, and the northern from 2 to 3 miles across; the anchorage is under the 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 els near the centre of its western side. A reef about three quarters of a mile in extent, and awash at high water, runs out ast direction from the southern shore. Fresh water can be obtained here, but it is hard and brackish at high water.

Island is not more than 23 miles across, although on the chart it is about 7. A reel, awash at high water, nearly 13 cables 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 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 14 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-

ather, extends for about 2 cables to the south-west from the south-western point of the bay.

4 channel with 2 or 3 fathoms at low water between Gow-tow and the island three quarters of a mile northward of it, but Song the north-east shore of Gow-tow, coming close to the beach on its northern side. The best channel is found by keeping

reef.

of Gow-tow is an archipelago of small grotesquely-shaped islands aud pyramidical rocks, covered with thick jungle in- W patches of lawn; they rise to a height of about 130 feet, and are steep to; numerous caverns are to be found on their cases forming natural arches, having a depth of from 3 to 9 fathoms underneath them. There are some rocks awash about 2 cables from the southern islands of this group.

and recedes from the general run of the coast line in the neighbourhood of these islands, forming a bay about 13 miles Putze-loong.

Away--Is a point of the main land near the southern extremity of the above archipelago, forming the southern point by there is a passage to the northward of Ounong for small vessels leading out below the small town of Fafung, which

-Best.

My Charts-China Sea, No. 2661a; Cochin China, Sheet III., No. 1264; Tong-king gulf, No. 2002: Also China Sea Directory, Vol. II., pages Hydrographie Notice, No. 20 of 18tið.