Posrriox or Titx-Batt.: Lat. 31° 14° 7" N.; Long. 121° 29° 103" E, or 8b. 6m, 56.7800. B. of Greenwich. 7 READING ov TH BAnomerxn.—At4 p.m. signals indicating the Barometer readioj as observed at Sicawei Obeorvatory at 4 p.m. and reduced to 32° and to mean sea-l will be given in inches and tenths of an inch by omitting the 3 of 30 and 2 of 29 or 28, Examples:—025 30.25; 994 =29.94; 898 28.98.
Locat, Tre—Shangbai mean time is reckoned from the 120th meridian 8h. Om. Oreo. East of Greenwich.
Tim BaL.t.—The signal is a ball hoisted at the Semaphore, which is in connexion with the Sicawei Observatory; it is made daily as follows:—The ball is hoisted half-inmost at 11h. 45m. a.m., to the masthead at 11h. 60m. a.m., and drops for the first time at 11h, 58m. Shanghai mean time. The ball is immediately hoisted again to the masthead and drops & second time at noon.
If from whatever cause the time ball fails to drop, or drops at the wrong time, the faneral flag Nos 0 will be hoisted of the masthead for one minute, and Ube noon signal will be tried. If the noon signal should aleo fail, the same flag will be again A time ball is also dropped at noon from the Customs' signal tower at Pootung Point. rimnltaneoualy with the Gring of a gun.
In addition to the signal given by the Time-Ball at noon, the exact China-' cart time is given every night by the extinction of the four white lights of the time-signal Toxer on the French shown about 2 minutes before the fit extinction.
Time of the 4th extine'fon In care of error or failure, a red light is shown, or the! two white lam) of the yard arm are lighted up during " few seconds to ancvl the wrong signal. signals are worked directly from Sicawei Observatory by electric apparatus.
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