NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1082, 31 July 1871, Page 4

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22, 1871. {The following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge neral information, Hekey Sewell. NOTICE TO MARINERS. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shovjs Red on the Pania Bock. On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seaward : Red From S.E. bv S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.p. to S.W. by S.|S. Red ... ... From S.W. by S.-iS. to S.W.iS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approaching from the northward should keep in the white light. Masters of vessels coming from the southward will find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock, which lias only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch extends at least one cable to the southward of the black buoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.

On Sundays, Public Holidays, and within each Province the Anniversary pf such Province, rom 10 a.m. to 10 30 a.m, and from 5 p.i to 30 p.ra.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAPH. LIST OF STATIONS. The following List of Telegraph Stations in this Colony, wit:i the hours during which the offices are open, will he of value to many of our readers :— Name. a o <*i cS C/2 Province. O O A.M. P.M. Alexandra ... 9 5 Auckland Alexandra ... 9 5 Otago Auckland ... 9 5 Auckland Balclutha ... 9 5 Otago Bealey 9 0 Canterbury Blenheim ... 9 5 Marlborough Bluff 9 5 Southland Brighton ... 9 5 Nelson Cambridge ... 9 5 Auckland Castle Point.. 9 5 Wellington Cheviot 9 5 Nelson Christchurch. 8 8 Canterbury Charleston ... 9 5 N elson Clyde 9 5 Otago Cromwell ... 9 5 Otago Dunedin...... 8 8 Otago Peatherston.. 9 5 AY el hi jgton Gvt. B’jildgs. 10 4.30 W ellington Greymonth... 9 5 AYestland Gieytown ... 9 5 Wellington Hokitika ... 9 5 AYestland Hamilton ... 9 5 Auckland Havelock .., 9 5 Marlborough Hutt .... .... 9 5 AYellington Invercargill.. 9 5 South land Kaiapoi 9 5 Canterbury Kaikoura ... 9 5 Marlborough Lawrence ... 9 5 Otago Lyttelton ... 8 8 Canterbury Marton 9 0 Wellington Masterton ... 9 5 AYellington Mercer 9 5 Auckland Napier ...... 8 8 Hawke’s Bay Newcastle ... 9 5 Auckland Nelson ...... 8 8 Nelson Oamaru 9 5 Otago Onehunga ... 9 5 Auckland Otaki 9 5 Wellington Palmerston... 9 5 Otago Patea 9 5 Taranaki Picton ... ,0. 9 5 Marlborough Port Chalmers 8 8 Otago Queenstown., 9 5 Otago 'Roxburgh ... 9 5 Otago Selwyn 9 5 Canterbury Spit, Port Ahuriri 9 5 Hawke’s Bay Temuka 9 5 Canterbi i ry Thames 9 5 A uckland Tiraaru 9 5 Canterbury Tokoraairiro.. 9 5 Otago Wanganui ... 9 5 Wellington Waipukurau, 9 5 Hawke’s Bay Waipawa ... 9 5 Plawke’s Bay Wellington... 8 8 Wellington Waikouaiti... 9 5 Otago Westport ... 9 5 Nelson White’s Bay . 8 8 Marl borough