No. 111.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SRD SEPTEMBER, 1870. 437
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Major-General WHITFEILD, Commanding IIer Majesty's Troops in China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies, has been pleased to appoint JAMES RUSSELL, Esquire, to be Assistant Superintendent of the Hongkong Fire Brigade, from this date until further notice.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th August, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 112.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Commissioner of Customs of New Zealand, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st August, 1870.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT, (MARINE BRANCH,) WELLINGTON, 1st June, 1870.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
JULIUS VOGEL, Commissioner of Customs.
No. 11 of 1870.
Light on Farewell Spit (Western Entrance to Cook Straits.)
NOTICE is hereby given, that on and after the 17th June, 1870, a Light will be exhibited from a Light-house erected on Bash-End Point, Farewell Spit, in Lat. 40° 33′ S., and Long. 173° 1′ 45′′ E., as measured from the Admiralty Chart. The light will show all round, except on the outer side of the Spit, where, off deck, it will not be seen when the light is brought to bear eastward of E.S., as it is shut in by sand hills.
It is a REVOLVING WHITE LIGHT of the Second Order Dioptric, attaining its greatest brilliancy ONCE A MINUTE.
Over the Spit End, (that is, between the bearings of N.W.4N. to W. by N.N.,) the light will be RED, in order to caution Mariners of their approach to that danger.
The light is elevated about 120 feet above the sea level, and will be visible in clear weather about 17 nautic miles, allowing 15 feet for the height of the observer's eye.
The Tower is an open-framed structure of timber, painted in alternate bands of red and white, and is 113 feet in height tom the ground to the top of the lantern.
Vessels must take care not to open the Northern edge of the red light when within four miles of the lighthouse. All bearings are magnetic.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Money Orders drawn in the United Kingdom upon Hongkong, Shanghae and Yokohama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange of the day of the receipt of the advices of such Orders at the places named, instead of, as hitherto, at the rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at the time of their presentation.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1870.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
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