Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1239, 3 February 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

pustonis Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,187 J., ; r fj& following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from jjihe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge jeral information. " : Henry Se,wexl. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Jjght shows Red on the Pa?iia Rock. .On and after the ls,t day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuri.ri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard.:—- '' Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.p. .White- ... From S. by E.p: to S.W. by S.^S. Heir From 5.W. by S'.iS. to The 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 jßock is in the centre of the south-western i red Jigiit, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side of the rock. Jessels 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 exlends at least one cable to the southward of the black ouoy which is moored off' the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. ' ■ All bearings are magnetic.