NOTICES TO MARINERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 238, 16 April 1869, Page 2

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

The following are taken from the Gazelle of April 8 : — Notice is hereby given, that there is a large snag on the bar of . the Buller River, which. in the present state'of the channel, is right iv the fairway of the North Channel. The snag will be : 'removed, or marked by buoys or beacons : as soon as practicable; and in the meantime*"; masters of vessels arc ■warned of its existence, and requested to observe closely the following directions : — When entering in daylight, the flagstaff and the beacon carrying the red flag rnusi be kept in one, and, failing this, vessels musi be steered in close accordance with the directions of the semaphore arm at the flagstaff. When entering by night, the (outer) red

light and the (inner) bright light must be kept in one, if practicable, or, failing this, the bright light must be opened to the S.W. of the red light (or towards Cape Eoulwind). On no account must the 1 neof the leading lights be crossed towards the N.B. till the i vessel is iuside the Bar. i Captain Edwards, of the Melanie, reports , the existence, in Lloyd "Bay, Torres Straits, I of a patc'i of rocks — upon the N.W. edge of , which the vessel touched, and where^ there were about five feet at low water— with the following bearings: — Restoration Island, , N. J- W.; Peaked Red Hill, S.W. J W. : : Also, of a small pinnacle, about three feet I square, awash at low water; the point cf , Cape Direction bearing E.by S. peak of lump, S. by E. JE.; Lloyd Island being at the same time just open to the northward of Low Island. He also reports having seen in the same , bay two rocks just awash, bearing from • the small sandbank S.E., and from X reef , S.W. by S. . Also^near the Pipon Islands the "Melanie" , struck on a patch of rocks not laid down in the charts — North Bay Point bearing S. by E.JE., and the east end of Pipon Islands, , S.W. by W.JW. As the tide was about halfebb.Avhen she touched, this patch cannot have more than three feet of water upon it at low water.