Posrmox ey Tie Batt: Lat, 31° 14! 7" Nu; Long, 121° 8" 108" E. or 8h. Sin, 66.7hec. B. of Greenwich. as observed at Sicawei Olcorvatory at 4 Pin, ani redueed th 32" and to mean sea READING oF THE BAKoMETER.—AL4 p.m. signals indicating the Barometer readin, ill be given in inches and. tothe of aa inch by omitting the 3 of 90 and 2 of 428, Bxamplos:—025= 10.25; 004= 20.04; $08 28.08, Locat. Tits—Shanghai mean time is reckoned from the 120th meridian 8h, Om. Once. Enat of Greenwich.
Tia Batt.—The signal is a ball hoisted at the Semaphore, which is in connexion with the Sicawei Observatory; it is made daily aa follows:—"The ball is hoisted half-mast at 11h. 45mm. am, £0 the masthead at 11h. 60m a.m., and drops for the first time at 11h. 85m. Shanghai mean time. The ball is immediately hoisted again to the masthead and drops a second time at noon.
If frown whatever cause the time ball fails to drop, or drops at the wrong time, the numeral fag 'No.0 will be belated atthe marthaad for one minute, and the noon signal will be tried. "If the noon signal should also fail, the same flag will be again A time ball is also dropped at noon from the Customs' signal tower at Pootung Point simultaneously with the Sung of a gun In addition to the signal given by the Time-Ball at noon, the exact Ch'na-' out time is given every night by the extinction of the four white lights of the time-signal Toner on the French Bund.
The light a © shown about 2 minutes before the first extinction.
Time of the Let extinction: 55 0.0 Time of the th extine'fon:
a ai 99 6th In care of error or failure, a red light is shown, or preferably the two signals are worked directly from Sicawei Observatory by elect: ie appar. of the, yard arm are lighted op
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