NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3820, 2 June 1873, Page 2

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The following notice has been issued from the Auckland Harbormaster's office: —

Notice is hereby given that two iron perch beacons (painted black) have been erected on the south side of the Waitemata Channel, near Kauri Point.

The upper beacon is erected on the northern extreme of the Boat Rock Reef, and is surmounted by a diamond-shaped cage twentytwo feet above the surface of the reef, and thiiteen feer above high water spring tides. The Lower beacon is erected on the outer end of the reef, immediately opposite Kauri Point, and is surmounted by a circular-shaped cage twenty-four feet above the surface of the reef, and fifteen feet above high water spring tides.

Also, that a cork buoy (painted black) has been placed on the south-western edge of the sunken rock off the North of Hillyard's Creek, and lies in two and a half fathoms at low water.

Masters of vessels are oautioned not to pass to the southward of the line of beacons, or within a cable's length northward of them, as rocky patches and uneven ground extend some distance out from the beacons.

A correspondent writes to the Melbourne '• Ifaily Telegraph "as follows : — " I hare had Borne experience at sea — some eight or nine years of it — and I think an enquiry into the cause of a seaman's death is very proper. I will give you an instance that occurred in a ■hip from London to Lyttelton, New Zealand. We had an experienced surgeon on board, medicine chest, &c. One of the seamen, by name John M'Carty, fell sick of bronchitis. The doctor came forward, looked at him, and eaid there was nothing the matter with him : he was loafing. Now, on board ship a sailor iB never sick till he dies, and then it is — Who would have thought it ? That man did not eat a single mouthful for seven days ; the captain would allow him nothing from the medicine chest, because he was loafing, forsooth ! On the eighth day the captain was informed that Jack M'Carty was dying, and then ran forward with a bottle of brandy and the doctor ; bnfc of course too late. The man was dead, sewed up, thrown overboard, and entered into the official log-book, ' died of broHcbitis, had every attendance,' &c» AH over, Jack forgotten The men all left in New Zealand — ran away — and nothing more was said about it. • No enqniry or anything elee. So much for the Mercantile Murine Act."