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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st MAY, 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. [ No. 7.]

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN.

(WESTERN PART.)

Information has been received from Captain Bartlett, of the British barque Britomart, of a reef seen by him during a recent voyage from Australia to Hongkong.*

Britomart Reef. This reef, close to which the Britomart passed, is level with the water, and from 400 to 500 feet long. It lies nearly 75 leagues to the westward of Assumption island, one of the northern of the Ladrone group, and the position as determined, lat. 19° 18′ N., long. 141° 34′ E.

The Britomart afterwards passed over the assigned position of Lindsay island, lat. 19° 20′ N., long. 141° 15′ E, but it was not visible from the masthead, in fine clear daylight.

Captain Bartlett also reports passing near the Minto reef in the Caroline islands. This reef is described as being 10 miles long, east and west, and level with the water except near the northern part, where it rises about 6 feet above the sea. position as given, lat. 8° 10′ N., long. 154° 34′ E., was found to be correct.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,

19th February 1870.

* See Admiralty Charts:- Pacific Ocean, Sheet V., No. 2463; and Pacific Ocean, General, No. 2683.

Νο. 65.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The

The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th May, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, 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.

[No.-22.]

JAPAN-NIPON, EAST COAST.

FIXED LIGHT ON ROCK ISLAND.

The Japanese Government has given Notice, that a temporary light is now exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on Rock island, off Simoda harbour, Nipon.

The light is a fixed white light, elevated 80 feet above high water, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance

of 14 miles.

The tower is in lat. 34° 34′ 20′′ N., long. 138° 57′ 10′′ East from Greenwich.

By Command of their Lordships,

FREDK. J. EVANS,

for Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,

15th February 1870.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Nipon Island, &c., No. 2347; Pacific Ocean, Sheet I., No. 2459; and Simoda harbour, No. 2655. Also China Pilot, 4th Edition, page 465.

[Agent for the Sale of Admiralty Charts, MR. J. D. POTTER, 31, Poultry, London, E.C.)

No. 66.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At the request of the Government of Ceylon, the following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th May, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.