Posrrrrion or Trme-BaLt: Lat. 31" 14° 7" N.; Long. 121° 29" 103" E. or 8h. 5m. 86.7aec. E. of Greenwich.
as observed at Sicawei Observatory at 4 p.m. und reduced to RaaDixo of THs Hsnourren.—At4 p.m. signals indicating the Barometer readin and to mean sea-level will be given in inches and tenth of an inch by omitting the 3 of 30 and 2 of 29 or Examples:—025 30.25; 994 20.94; 898 =28. 98, Loca Tre—Shanghei mean time is reckoned from the 120th meridian, 8h. Om. vee. East of Greenwich.
Tien Batt.—Tho signal in 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-must at 11h. 45m. a.m., to the masthead at 50m. a.m., and drops for the first time at 11h, 55m. Shanghai mean time, The ball is immodintal hoisted again to the masthead and drops a second time at noon. if Tf from whatever cause the time ball fails to drop, or drops at the wrong tin ho No. 0 will be hoisted! at the masthead for one minute, and the noon "signal will be tried. If the noon signal should also fail, the same flag will be again hoisted.
A time ball in also at noon from the Castoms' signal tower at Pootung Point, simultaneously with the fung of a ges.
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