NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[From the "Government Gazette," Oct. 24.] There is a very dangerous sunken rock Ijing between the Great and Little Barrier Isiatuis, (about three and a quarter miles distant from the latt"r Island) from which the following hearings were taken :— Southend of the Little Barrier, or " Hiouioi,rou\' Island, due west (magnetic.) Wellington Head (Great Barrier Island,) north e;ist by north, $ north. Eastern extremity of Kauwau Island, south-west, £ south. Mutu Tahnp.i, a small Island near C«pe Colvill, south east -}- east. The sea does not usually break upon this melt daring mod rate weather, but at times breakers can be Seen- on it for several miles distance, ami iit low water the top of the rock may be seen »rso gst the breakers. The soundings tdten showc-d three fathoms close to the hreiktirs, and fourteen fathoms within a cable's length of them. David Rough, Harbour Ma-ter. Auckland, New Zealand, Oct. 22, led;").
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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 3 December 1845, Page 2
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152NOTICE TO MARINERS. Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 3 December 1845, Page 2
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