NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1858, 21 April 1863, Page 2

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Frendi Pass, Cook's Straits. Chief Marine Board Office, Nelson, 16th March, 1868. An Iron Perch, 6 feet above high -water mark, has been erected on the extreme end of the reef in the French Pass, leaving a clear channel of 117 yards between it and the eastern shore, and a Buoy, painted white, has been placed on the eastern edge of Shell Bank in 2£ fathoms at low water spring tides, with the following hearings and diitances:—Eock Cod Point, E. I N., H cables; the Iron Perch, N.E. by N., 2J cables. Masters of vessels going through should take it -mth either a fair tide or at slaok water, and tn going from the southward should leave the buoy and peroh on the port hand, and from the northward wee versa, in both instances taking a middle channel course. Strangerß before approaching the narrows should make themselves perfeotly acquainted with the relative positioua of the above, as the tides are strong, leaving too little time for taking bearings, and Bhould not attempt going through aftor dark, [NoTo.] Fixtd Light at Nelson Harbor. The Colonial Government at New Zealand has given notice, that on and after the 4th day of August, 1862, a light would be exhibited from a lighthouse recently ereoted at Nelson Harbor, Blind Bay, on the north coast of Middle Island. The light is a fixed white light, visible from seaward through an arc of 120 deg. or when bearing from S. by W. 5 W round by E. to E. by N. easterly. It is placed at an elevation of about 60 feet above the level of highwater springs, and should be seen in clear weather from a distance of 12 miles. The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenßes or the fourth order. The tower is of iron, octagonal and painted white. It stands on the south-west part of the Boulder Bank, which forms the breakwater to the auehorage at about lo milea south-westward of Pepin Island, and half-a-mile N. by E. - of the Powder Magazine, in lat 41 deg. lSmln. C aea S., long. 173 deg. 17 mm. 7 sea East of Greenwich. It beara from the extreme of Cape Farewell sand spit S.S.E. i B. easterly ; and from tho weßt entrance to Wttimea river E. b> The outo^anchorageis in 6 fathoms water with the light Caution.— Mariners are cautioned not to shut the light in, nor to approach within the distance of one mile of the - lig Al? O beari«ga are magnetic/., ,• Variation 15,° 20' E«rt " By Command of 'their Lordships, ; • '•■*■ > John "WA^HtNaioHr, ;- iis ,'uj j • ■ - Hydrographer. • Hydrographic Office,. Adminsy, London, ; ,„; .. -% December 16, 1862. -< „ , f , :'~ ■ „v . ... - : — ffl} ;.:•-..■.•-•; ;',.-ifV;ff%V iThiß Notice affects the following, Admiralty Charts;— New Zealand- Tslandß,»i No. j>: New ; Zealand; "Middle Island, SheetJ, No. 2616 ;.Nefei3i. Anchorages, .Sfa,?lßs;, PacuTo'Oc&aH, l! ShSet-lol> iSTtf ? 2488 V ;V and'Padfloip^a'n, ;( General, N,9 2683..^?, Nf^^aland Pj^t, p. !^ f , ( > l ?-;.^ t -,•;_ The fono^iig Notlbe to ifl^Sra 'jN^SEf^l^ rftfy. LighSiQuse on Point'Lo^d^rPor^'BhMpj JB ; ss*.?/: ':■ Ushedto^erftT #***$*.s*% :^S^gg^'

the entrance to Port Phillip, a temporary flx?d harbor light will, on and after the evening of the 19th instant, be exhibited from a site close to the tidal flagstaff on Point Lonsdale. This light will be colored green to Beaward, and red towards the harbor and Point Nepoan. Vessels inward or outward bound, when they have the green light full in view, will be outside of these dangers, nnd when they have the red light full in view, they will be Inside of these dangers. Tho blending of the two colors when seen from a vessel will indicate that she is in the vicinity of these dangers. The Point Lonsdale Light will only illuminate an area of about fifty degreeß of the horizon, and be visible, the green light at a distance of about four miles, the red light about seven miles, within the following bearings :— Green light, from about N. W. J W. to N.W. by N. Red light, from about W. £ N. to N.W. iW. The bearings are magnetic, and are given from the ship, not from the light!. Ohahi.es Ferguson, Chief Harbor Master. Department of Ports and Harbors, Williamstown, 2nd February, 1863.