The Soames' Island Light.
[By TKu-xutAPii.'j (!'<)• I'n'ss jlxxorfdtinit.) i>.\. This day. A test ns to the advesabiity of increasing the power of Soame. ' Island lighthouses was made la.~f nL'bt by the Tutanckai with .several experts on board, and an the night at Um< was hazy they were afforded a ;rn i l! proof of the inefficiency of th | r * nt light. Wh< n about a eotiple of mil- < from Penearrow head the light on Soames became obscured and the head was turned to port, and. it wan not for time that the light was [ticked 11 1>; 'l'be general imprt --i..ti of the experts is that the ht'ht should be inert .t-i d from a fifth order 1 t! t> a second order, and to lew n the breadth of the white ttioti which marks the -:afe pu«-iigt up th.- t hanm I.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 307, 27 April 1897, Page 2
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143The Soames' Island Light. Hastings Standard, Issue 307, 27 April 1897, Page 2
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