Posrriox or Tite-Batt: Lat. 31° 14' 7" N.; Long. 121° 29° 103" E. or 8h. 5m. (66. nec. E. of Greenwich.
'BRAabixo or Tilt Banoueres.—At4 p.m. signals indicating the Barometer readi a observed a "i Observatory at 4 pam. and reduced to $2" and to mean sea-lo ths of an inch by omitting the 8 of 30 and 2 of 29 or 994 29.94; 89% and drape for the can time. The ball is immediately hoisted again to the inx nees ce tt etl fal tod or do oh Who reg If from whatever can trap, or the wrong time, the drop, or drops at time, will be tried.
If the noun signal should also fail, the same flag will be again hoi 'A time ball is also dropped at noon from the Customs' signal tower at Pootung Point, simultaneously with the firing of a gu Tu addition, to the tinual given by toe Time-Ball at noon, the exact China.' oust time is given csery night by the extinction of the four white light of the time-signal Tower on the French Bund.
The ligite a e shown about 2 minates bet.re the first extinction.
Time of the 4th extino'fon ad, 8 87 00 o'cace of error jr failure a red ight jo ehcwn, or'preferbly Ue! two white lane of the yard arm are lightes up during s few seconds to annul the wrong signal.—The sgnale are worked slitectly from Sicawei Obmrvatory by electilo apparatus
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