ReADIne or Tue Baxouerxn—At4 p.m. signals i the Barometer readit as observed at Sicawei Observatory at 4 p.m. and reduced to 32° and to mean sea-levi will be given in inches and tenths of an inch by omitting the 3 of 30 and 2 of 29 or Reamplon:—025= 90.25; 004 29.04, O08 28.98,—Shanghai mean time is reckoned from the 120th meridian bh. Om. sec, East of Greenwich. with the Sicawei Observatory; it is made daily as follows:—The ball is hoisted half-mast at 11h. 45m. a.rm., to the masthead at 11h. 50m. a.m., and drops for the first time at 11h. 55m. Shanghai moan time. The ball is immediately hoisted again to the masthead and drops a rccund time at noon.
"If from whatever cause the time ball fails to drop, or drops at the wrong time, the will be tri 'f the noon signal should also fal, the somme flag wil be again hol numeral flag No. 0 will be hoisted at the masthead for one minute, and the noon
Point, simultaneously with the Sung of a gun.
time hollin also dropped at noon from the Customs' signal tower at Pootung Tu addition to the signal gives by tse Tice-Ball at, noon, the exact Ohina-'ast 0'srg of ere Se fallace. a ed light is shown, or'peforshiy thi two white lam of the yard arm are lighted vp doring a few seconds to annul the wrong signal.—signals are worked directly from Sicawei Obs vatory by electric apparatus
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