Posrriox or Tiwe-Bars: Lat, 31° 14' 7" N.; Long. 121° 29 103" E. or 8h. Sin. 68.is00. E. of Greenwich.
Teapiso of Tax Baxouerax.—At4 p.m. signals indicating the Rarometer readin, 1s observed at Sicawei Observatory at 4 p.m. and reduced to 32" and to mean sea- lew 98, Examples:—025 =30.25; 904 29.94; 899=28.98, be given in inches and vent he of an inch by omitting the 3 of 30 and 2 of 29 Locat Time.—Shanghai mean time is reckoned {com the 120th meridian 8b. Om. vee. East of Greenwich.
Tie Batt.—The signal is a ball hoisted at the Semphore, which is in connexion with the Sicawei Observatory; it is made daily as follows:—The ball is hoisted half-mast at 11h, 45m. a.m., to the masthead at 11h. 50m. a.m., and drops for the first time at 11h. 55m. Shanghai mean time. The lull is immediately Ihoisted ogum to the masthead and drop a second time at noon.
If from whatever cause the time hall fails to drop, or drops at the wrong time, the amoral og No, 0 wil be hosted atthe masthead for one minute, al the noon signal will be tried. If the noon signal should also fail, the same flag will be again hoisted.
A time ball is also dropped at noon from the Customs' signal tower at Pootung Point, simultaneously with the fung of a gun.
In addition to the signal given by the Time-Ball at noon, the exact China-Coast time {a given every night by the extinction of the fono white lights of the time-signal Tower on the French The lights ate shown about 2 minut before the frat extinction, 4 Time of the 4th extine ion: 8 58 00 lama ba 0.0 9 0 00 {is shown, or preferably the we white lambe
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