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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 47.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH NOVEMBER, 1869.
VOL. XV.
No. 135.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has been pleased to appoint ALFRED LISTER, Esquire, to be Acting Assistant Harbor Master, from the 2nd instant, vice TONNOCHY, absent on leave.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1869.
No. 136.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
G. OVERBECK, Esquire, Consul General for Austria, having appointed Mr. ERNEST BEHRE to take charge of the affairs of the Consulate during his temporary absence from the Colony, it is hereby notified that His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has been pleased to recognize such appointment provisionally, and until further notice.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1869.
No. 137.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of the Government of India the following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1869.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
From and after the 15th September 1869, the lights on the following Light Houses will be, Night by Night, Continiously Exhibited, and on the 21st September the Light Ship which has hitherto marked the
Entrance of the Rangoon River will be removed.
In accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of Act XIII of 1867, a coast light due of one anna a ton will be levied on and after the 15th September on all vessels of fifty tons burden and upwards if the voyage be from Rangoon or Maulmain to Bassein, or from Bassein to Rangoon cr Maulmain.
N.B. THE BEARINGS AND COURSES GIVEN ARE ALL TRUE.
I. Coast Light-house on the Krishna Shoal, Gulf of Martaban, in Latitude 15° 36′ 30” North,
Longitude 95° 35' East.
A Light-house on screw piles in 3 fathoms at low water, on the South Eastern edge of the above shoal, showing a fixed dioptric Light of the 2nd order. The focal plane of the light 60 feet above high water mark, visible 14 nautical miles. Rise and fall of tide 12 feet. H. W. at F. and C. XII hours. The light is cut off at W. S. W. to the Westward, and at N. N. E. to the Eastward, the centre of the light being South East.
It is provided with a Fog Bell which, in foggy weather, will be sounded at intervals of 30 seconds.
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