Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1235, 30 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, Jane 22,1871. following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from Provincial Engineer, is published for ge information/'' Henby Sewell. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Paniq Bock. ,On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Eed and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard: — Bed From S.E. by S. to S. by E.£E. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.^S. Bed From S.W. by to S.W.fS. The light will be about 37 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Bock is in the centre of the south-western red light,' which' will he seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approaching from the northward should keep in the white light. " Masters of vessels coming from the southward will find this light no guide for them', and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exZends at least one cable to the southward of the black Duoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. ! All bearings are magnetic.