LIGHTHOUSE FOR CAPE FAREWELL
Our shipping intelligence containa a report, by one of the coasting-vessels, that within the last few days six or seven vessels, including a steamer, touched on the point of the Farewell Sandspic, some of them remaining for several hours. Now that the shipping traffic between the East and "West Coasts of the Middle Island, round by Cook's Strait, has swelled to such a great extent as the last few months have shown, a lighthouse on Cape Farewell is growing indispensable, as mariners require some clearly defined mark, both by day and night, to show the distance to which the long and shallow spit extends. These touchings of vessels are warnings which the General Government, who charge heavily for light dues at every port in New Zealand, ought not to neglect.
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Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 831, 17 October 1865, Page 3
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134LIGHTHOUSE FOR CAPE FAREWELL Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 831, 17 October 1865, Page 3
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