HIKITIKA SIGNALS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1615, 16 February 1866, Page 2

HIKITIKA SIGNALS.

1. Bell and red flag at the mast-head: high water; take the bar. 2. Ball and blue flag, half-mast: half flood; wait for tide. _ When the bar may safely be attempted at halftide, whether ilood or ebb, the red flag will be at the mast-head over the ball, denoting the state ot tide. 3. Ball on the tower-mast cap, and white flag; ebb tide; bar dangerous. 4. No signal: do not attempt the bar. 6. Rod painted arm, pointed to the right-hand, entering from seaward: more to the south. 6. The other arm, pointed to the left-hand, entering from seaward: More to the north. 7. The arms up and down with the, mast: As you go. When more than one vessel is crossing the bar, )he foremost vessel will be piloted in, the others following in her wake. On a moveable pole in front of the signal mast the two in one showing the fairway, will be hoisted (if nectary) to show the set of the current on the bar, thu*:— A red and white pennant—to the northward. A square juilow flag—to the southward. On the flagstaff not in use for the piloting gigaals, at high-water, the depth,in feet on, the bar will be denoted by Marryatt s c<,da. I A red light w hoisted on the signal-mast on the jouthnpit ouch night, visible at from three to four miles; There will be an anchor, and hain, and line to the south spit, and boat and boat's arew in ren liness at high-water, every tide, to assist any vessel coming over the bar. When the bar is only fit for steamers to take, a red flag , will hoisted on the north flagstaff. When for ■ailing vessel j, a red flag and ball. Mastew cf vessels are particularly requested attend la His; small tidal flag on the spit, as the •mall tidal flag and the large flag in one takes them over the bar.