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Full text: 1870 (1870)

16, dated 8t!i February 1870, respecting the 
proposed exhibition of a light from a light 
house recently erected on Sandy Cape: 
The Colonial Government of Queensland 
has given further Notice, that the light is 
now exhibited. 
The light is a revolving white light, 
attaining its greatest brilliancy every two 
minutes, elevated 400 feet above the level 
of the sea, and in clear weather should be 
seen from a distance of 27 miles. 
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or 
by lenses, of the first order. 
The tower, 99 feet high, is built of iron 
and painted white. Position, lat. 24° 43' 20" 
S., long. 153° 13' 40" East. 
Not. to Mar. No. 8t>. 
einem auf Cap Satibp nett erbauten Seudjttburm, 
toirb angegeigt, baf; ba§ gcuer Fht attgejünbet ift. 
($4 ift ein toeifeS Trebieitcr, mit ShtterBallen 
Don jmei SDIinuten; 400 fyitf über bev IDieereS» 
fläche mtb bet flarcr hilft 27 Seem. tveit ficbtbar. 
iinfenapparat 1. Ctimung. 
Cer Thurm ift von (Sifen, toeif geftvidjeu unb 
99 guf pod).; 
Sage: 24° 43' 20" «üb Streite, 153° 13' 
40" äCft Päitge Bon ©vccntBitb. 
Torres Strait. 
291. Ptittilion of (’ampin'll roof. 
Also, that from observations made by IT. 
M. S. Blanche, the position of Campbell 
reef in Torres Strait is about 2V* miles to 
the north-eastward of that in which it is 
placed on the Chart, or in lat. 10° 20' S., 
long. 142° 30' E. 
The reef, awash at low water springs, is 
about 7 cables long East and West and 3 
cables wide. 
Not. to Mar. No. 8*1. 
XI. 
Shrrcs Strafe. 
Sage bes GTtnipbrU Jtiffo. 
9!ad; bett Born britifdjert KriegSfcbiff ©landje 
angcftellten Untcrfudjimgeit liegt bas Campbell Siiff 
itt ber Xovrcä Strafe ungefähr 2*/» geeilt. norb= 
öftlid) Bon ber in ber Starte angegebenen «teile, 
nämlid) in 10° 20' «üb Streite unb 142° 30' 
CftA'änge Bon ©reemoid). 
Taci Sltiff, fclhft hei Sprittgebbe unter SBaffer, 
ift in öftlither unb meftlichcr SKiditung ungefähr 
7 Kabellängen lang unb 3 Kabellängen breit. 
>«'» Zealand Hiihllr island — • Cook strait. 
292. Hovtilvint; litflit on 
Farewell «pit. 
The Colonial Government of New Zealand 
has given Notice, that from the 17th June 
1870 a light will be exhibited from a light 
house recently erected on Bush - End point, 
Farewill spit, Western entrance of Cook 
strait. 
XI. 
tint Sedan!). — Jtlittlcrc 3nfrl. — (Tank Strafe. 
S'rebfeucr auf ¡varewcll Spit. 
33om 17. fsuni tv. ah ¡ft auf beat auf SBufh 
Gnb Thant, fyaretncll fplt, am »ceftltcfjcn Cingang 
bev Coot Strafe ttett erbauten 9eitd)ttfurm eitt 
geuer angejiinbet. 
Gd ift ein Tvehfettev mit fstiterBalleti bou eittev 
IDiinute tittb erfdjeint tncif mit Sltidnabme itt ber 
fRitflung ttach bent «pit Gnb, ndmlttf gtBifcfen
	        
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