aber, 1855.
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The Hongkong Government Gazette.
RETURN OF VESSELS &c.,—Continued.
FLAG.
TONS.
DAFE OT DEPARTURE.
DESTINATION.
No of PAMENGERS.
Brought forward,
13,105.
British
479 August
28
San Francisco
4
536
31
喝静
5
Shangbai
2
Portuguese
297
September
1
West Coast
G
British
169
1
49
Shanghai
15
Siamese
250
G
"
Amoy
48
British
139
10
30
"
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Dutch
474
14
70
59
Danish
170
15
"
Shanghai
3
British
595
17
"
Whampoa
12
515
18
59
Shanghai
1
Dutch
343
21.
30
33
New Grenada
307
22
13
Port Philip
13
Peruvian
350
M
24
Shanghai
9
American
1,478 October
1
Manila
1
Danish
272
3
Shanghai
5
19
American
640
6
San Francisco
19
**
British
197
6
Foo-chow-foo
4
39
Chilian
1292
6
East Coast
B
*
Hamburg
202
6
Shanghai
7
Spanish
458
16
Manila
2
31
Sardinian
248
"9
25: Singapore
15
British
:666
30 San Francisco
12
19
Siamese
300
November
2
Bancock
28
British
247
2
Shanghai
8
Dutch
633
3
Foo-chow-foo
4
"
British
405
6
2
Singapore
30
165
14
"
19
Shanghai
Dutch
343
19
British
298
26
Swatow
5
**
640
27
Adelaide
265
"
"
Hamburg
350
30
Foo-chow-foo
*
British
840
December
1
Shanghai
210
5
Amor
American
639
5
"
Shanghai
British
710
12
**
American
1,034
27
Havana
1,387
31
Adelaide
Total,
13 375
450
14,683
THOS. V. WATKINS, Harbor Master.
Dating Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st December, 1855.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
3. Excellency The Governor directs the publication of the following Notice of a Light-House on Troubridge Sea Gulf St Vincent.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Cinzial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th March, 1856.
Notice to Mariners.
LIGHT-HOUSE ON TROUBRIDGE SHOALS, GULF ST VINCENT.
TRINITY HOUSE, Port Adelaide, South AusTRALIA, 17th December, 1855.
man påt fushing Light, 80 feet above high-water mark, visible from the deck of a moderate-sized vessel at a dawn if a steen (16) miles, will be exhibited on and after the evening of the 1st of February, 1856.
The Loght-house is composed of iron, painted stone-color, and is placed on the centre of the Troubridge Island in long. 137° 50′ 15′′ E., var. 5o E. High water, F. and C. 3.30; the flood sets E.N.E., and then N.N. E.
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a tend through Investigator's Straits into the Gulf St Vincent, should make the Light bearing N.E. N. esmom and steer N.E. by E. E. to pass it at a distance of seven miles; having brought it to bear W. by N. Į N. males, a course of N.E. by N. may be kept for the Light-ship off Port Adelaide, which bears N.E. E., Pom the centre of the Island. Vessels from the Westward and Southward should not approach the Light
• sem Čistance than four miles, where they will find soundings of 14 fathome.
Tea Pond tog, during Westerly Gales and at the springs, runs with considerable velocity-setting rather on the
the men, the trail is open.
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Light
Light-house position. Variation Tides.
Sailing directions.
Tides.
bond down the Gulf from the Port, meeting with Westerly Gales, will find excellent anchorage under Anchorage off the
Så is a Troulridge Island, with the light bearing S.W., distant 17 mile, in 8 fathoms, on a clean sandy bottom.
B. DOUGLAS, Master Trinity House.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Light.
Lellency The Governor has been pleased to re-appoint a Commission to enquire into the system under The Police Force of Hongkong is constituted and governed; and of such Commission, the Colonial Secretary, #wy General, and the Chief Magistrate of Police, are appointed Members.
The Commission will assemble at the Government Offices, on Monday next the 24th instant, and will sit from » at the hour of 3 r.M., or as the Commission shall otherwise determine.
willing to give evidence on the subject are invited to forward their names to any Member of the Com- d it is likewise intimated, that the sittings of the Commission will be open to the Public.
By Order,
Etal Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th March, 1856.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
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