Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1237, 1 February 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), " Wellington; June 22,1871. SEjfiE following Notice to Hariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Bight afc'EFaoier, prepared from information received from ihe Provincial Engineer,"' is published for ge serai information. 1 Henby Se^veix. •PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This lAgM shows Red on the Patria Rock. ,On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will'be exhibited from a mast on the Western extremity of the Eastern Spi£ Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard':— ' ' ' " '.'..'• '" Red ... ... From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.iS. Red Erom S.W. by S.i-S. to S.W.£S. /Hie light will be about 27 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 Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile Jnautjpai) 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 allpretautious as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called Jhe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet ou some portions of it at low water springs. This patch expends at least one cable to the southward of the black buoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in s|" fathoms at low water jsprings." ' '"■'■" ,; All bearings are magnetic.