DIRECTION'S TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 6, 20 November 1863, Page 2

DIRECTION'S TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

'PromifeSProvinci "il Government Gazette N0v. .21. i. J |'here*Btrance tcy this port being intricate, a < itraßgetsWuid no*, under any circumstances, - attempt -te sail in without a pilot, but should make fast. to the. mooriiig buoy painted black, -< wbich glased in twenty-one feet at low water spring tidea^with tbe following bearings : Steep!fiaed, S.p. bjrE, . ■ . „ „-- •iNortti- weet end- of Stewards Island, oii with jHoweL'ifPoHit, S. by W. half W. . - The flagstaSFonUailey's Point, W. half N. The mooring anchors of, this buoy are placed four huifdre'd;6hd fifty feet apart, east and west Jrpm<aaehrother; on each side of the buoy c,are siibuifi ■be^iisnAiii dropping an anchor hear iby, g3(»t.-to hodkiheapoonngs. ' On and after *fee Ist of November, 1863, heLveen sunrisOJanid sunset the following signals ■rill be made*t«he flagstaff, on Bailey's Point* "W'hcn-^-tßfe^^s approaching the harbor ; a .munaerf/c>m^Marryat's code.indicating in .feet •the Sa^-h-. *' r on the bar at the titiie,' will . &g haiatea v. VW «ortl>,.yard arm. -.. .< 7. ;jJiS!kck bail V.^sted above .this number wiU ''*Bnow*fcF-t tl^p"" • toc> higii oh the bar forthe ? -pflo-rtoisgct 67 „j ]s ■■--.r.-... „.->.. . Two black bT^ ,v h£ionk the nuiriber*" will - TOfeah- that seme r& Q f * V .hang-e -has' taken place ; sft theJbbantielbr *tha»« Ms dangerous in the ■ opinfewfefthe jilot even >r a coaster acquainted : wi« h *thl^afee to : attempt tu run In. ..... __ ; Vessels "outside the bar oi at the aiooring •yjS^T^^^e'fUoiciMot. gel off may" hold : communication iw^bftdrtFby w.ewfis of Marryat's signals ..wSi^'in tfiis-casej^M be hoistefi at the ■ ~s7irath"yard'_rTfir~' " The, pilot who, l js. or<Wsjlfed with a boat and crfeW of fo'tt^erfwifr, when it is praclicpile, always' put off in his boat on the approach "of a vessel not having the exemption flag flying. The depth' of Wat'ef"on the bar is at the - highest tides fourteen feet, and there is rarel jr less than eight feetjat^jght wfatqr < lowest .neap tides. . r , J A; B. Greio, 7- ' W* ■' * • -7 « "'ftarfeOi* Master, j Harhor Office, InTercargill, j t 1«63. 1