NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 3188, 2 November 1878, Page 2

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

■ ' ' -Marine Department, Wellington, 15th October,. 1878. The following hydrographic memorandum, received from the Commodore Commanding the ''Australian Station, is published for general information. G. Grey. (Information received from Mr Wm. Powell.) There is a dangerous reef lying in China Straits, not marked by Captain Moresby, Paplis Island, bearing S.S.W. 1£ miles, Didymns Island (centre) SE. f S. 2 miles, covered, at low water, and seldom breaks. (Information received from the Commander- , in-Chief of the China Station.) Mr H. G. Harrington, master of the British, barque "British Slope, reports that, after passing through Bouganville Straits, on (' 2nd March, 1878, he experienced a S.S.E. set of 110 miles in one,night, which, as a very, uneasy motion bad been felt on board, "and in the morning the ship was found to be surrounded and embedded in enormous quantities of pumice of various sizes^-h'e attributed to the effect of submarine volcanic disturbance. (Information received from the Commanding .Officer of H.M.S. Sappho.) The Sappho searched, between the 26th of June , and 2nd, of July, 1878, for the Lucius and-Aurora' Shoals in Torres Straits, and did not find any trace of. them to exist in the positions assigned to them on the chart. (Information received, from British Consul at Noumea, dated 23rd September, 1878.) In. August, 1873, about a fortnight after H.Mi f s l schboner Renard had completed a re-survey of the harbpr,' rendered necessary by'the volcanic upheaval which took place in fee 'Island-of Tadna in January, February, and June, 1878, another earthquake and extensive upheaval took place, and Port Resolution_is,.reported■•to be almost entirely destroyed .. \