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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TMн MAY, 1860.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.-No. 64, 1860.

COLONIAL OFFICE, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE,

16th February, 1860.

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor bas directed the publication of the following notice, describing the new CAPE OF GOOD HOPE LIGHT, which will be exhibited on the first day of May, 1860.

By Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Administering the Government,

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE LIGHT.

The bearings are true, and the distances nautical miles.

RAWSON W. RAWSON, Colonial Secretary,

An iron tower has been erected on the Cape of Good Hope, a light from which will be exhibited on the first of May, 1860. The tower is 30 feet above the ground, and is painted white; the light is 816 feet above the sea, and is visible in all directions from N. 34° W., round by the west, south, east, and north, to N. 7° W., save and except on a sector included between N. 54° W. and N. 61° W., where it is obscured by the intervention of a high peak, 880 feet above the sea, and 1,800 yards from the light tower.

The light is on the catoptric principle and of the first class; it is white--revolving--and shows its most brilliant beamn once in a minute for the space of twelve seconds of time, and it is visible in clear weather from a deck 16 feet high at the distance of 36 miles.

Latitude of the light... Longitude..

.34° 21′ 12′′ S. 18° 29' 30" E.

The light tower stands N. 49° W., 925 yards from the Dias Rock, which is the southern extremity of the Cape Peninsula. The following bearings and distances are given from the light :—

Anvil Rocks.

Bellows

S. W. Reef Whittle Rock..

.S. 54°

E. 1.8 miles.

.S. 1° S. 55°

W. 2-1 W. 1-8 N. 27° 30′ E. 7·2

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A current of varied strength sets round the Cape and turns to the N.W. from the Bellows Rock. This rock always breaks; but not so the Anvil, which only breaks at low water and with a heavy swell. Sailing vessels should not pass between these dangers and the Cape, unless with a commanding breeze. The rocky patch, "S.W. Reef," lies south 42° W., one mile only from the S.W. corner of the Cape Peninsula, and there is foul rocky ground between it and the shore.

Ships from the eastward should not bring the light to bear more westerly than W. by N., by which they will clear all dangers off Cape Hanglip. A tongue of low land stretches from this Cape in a S. 23° W. direction for 1 miles, rendering caution necessary in passing Hanglip in hazy weather, especially if bound into Simon's Bay. If bound for Table Bay from the eastward, vessels, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope and passing Slangkop Point, should not shut in the light with that point until the Green Point light becomes visible (which will be on a N. 41° E. bearing). This course will about two miles to the westward of the Vulcan Rock, which lies off the northern entrance to Hout Bay; a course for Table carry them Bay may then be shaped with safety.

Vessels from the westward bound for Simon's Bay, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope and having brought the southern end of the lofty Zwartkop range (which stands over the northern side of Smith's Winkle Bay), to bear west-should keep the light on Cape Point between S. 2° W. and S. 23° W., until the Roman Rock light bears between N. 30° W. and N. 47° W., when they may haul towards it. These limits leave the rocks off Millar's Point on the one hand and the Whittle Rock on the other, half a mile distant. Should the weather be hazy and the whitewashed mark and beacon for the Whittle Rock indistinct-there is a dark peak over the southern side of Hout Bay which being brought on with Elsey Peak on a N. 420 W. bearing, will lead clear (but close) to the westward of the Whittle Rock.

Simon's Bay, February 2, 1860.

No. 60.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

F. SKEAD, Master R.N., Admiralty Surveyor.

It is found necessary again to call the attention of Owners, Agents, and Masters of Ships to Govern- ment Notifications No. 104 of 12th November, 1859, and No. 25 of 28th February last, and to repeat, that all Transfers, Endorsements, and other Transactions connected with the Registry of Ships, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, are now effected at the Harbor Master's Office, in place of the Colonial Secretary's Office, as previously to the date first above-named.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th April, 1860.

NOTICE.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

HARBOUR MASTER's Office, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

8th May, 1860.

Notice to Consignees, Masters and others in charge of Merchant Vessels.

1. On or before the 1st June proximo all ships with the following exceptions shall be moved over to the North Side of the Harbour, mooring them properly with 45 Fathoms on each chain, the anchors lying in an E.N.E. and W.S.W. direction from each other.

2. The Southern line of this anchorage shall be, the North Extremity of Hongkong just shut in with the South Extremity of the Kowloon Peninsula bearing E. S.; the Top Gallant Masts and Yards are to be on deck and flying Jib-boom in, a spare anchor is to hang a cock bill ready for letting go, and the hawse is invariably to be kept clear.

3. Hulks or receiving ships (not having Top Masts pointed) may for convenience lie on the South Shore.

4. Ships discharging cargo may also by permission anchor on the South Shore.

5. The Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s Hulk Fort William is for the convenience of the Public Service allowed to remain where she is the Mail Steamers anchoring near her but not to Southward.

Vessels under Articles 3 and 4 and 5 must perfectly understand that although they have permission to remain there, it is entirely at their own risk.

H. G. THOMSETT, Acting Harbour Master.

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