NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1095, 16 August 1871, Page 4

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Cug,toins Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. 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 peral information. Henbt Sewell. NOTICE TO MARINERS. FORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Bock. Pn 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 seacard : Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.JS. Red From S.W. by to S.W.JS. The light will be about 27. feet above high water, and should be visible, in .clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing JO feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in th,e 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 has 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 6f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAPH.

LIST OF STATIONS. •The following List of Telegraph in this Colony, witii the hours during which the offices are open, will ]be of value to niany of our readers :

Qn Sundays, Public Holidays, and each Province the Anniversary pfsuch PiTA'ince, rom 10 a.m. to 10 30 •* rn arid fr<.*-V\ 5D J tO '3O P-JIL

Name. O P-t 9 Close. Province. A.M. P.M. Alexandra ... 9 5 Auckland Alexandra ... 9 5 Otago Auckland ... 9 5 Auckland Balclutha ... 9 5 Otago Bealey 9 5 Canterbury Blenheim ... 9 5 Marlborough Bluff 9 5 Southland Brighton ... 9 5 Nelson (Cambridge ... 9 5 Auckland Castle Point.. 9 o Wellington 9 5 Nelson Christchurch. 8 8 Canterbury Charleston ... 9 5 Nelson Clyde 9 5 Otago promwell ... 9 5 Otago Dunedin...... 8 8 Otago Featherston.. 9 0 Welli jgton Gvt. Buildgs! 10 4.30 Wellington (Grey mouth... 9 5 West land jGrieytown ... 9 5 Wellington Hokitika ... 9 5 West land Hamilton ... 9 5 Auckland Havelock ,.. 9 5 Marlborough 9 5 Wellington Invercargill.. 9 5 Southland 9 5 Canterbury Kaikoura ... 9 5 Marlborough !|Lawrence ... 9 5 Otago Lyttelton ... 8 8 Can terbury 9 5 Wellington Masterton ... 9 5 Wellington 9 0 Auckland 8 8 Hawke's Bay Newcastle ... 9 0 Auckland 8 8 Nelson 9 5 Otago Pnehunga ... 9 5 Auckland Otaki ........ 9 5 Wellington Palmerston... 9 5 Otago 9 0 Taranaki Picton ... ... 9 5 Marlborough PortChalmers 8 8 Otago Queenstown.. 9 5 Otago Boxburgh ... 9 5 Otago 9 5 Canto bury {3pit,PortAhuriri 9 5 Hawke's Bay Temuka 9 5 Canterbi i iy 9 5 A ucldand Timaru 9 5 Canterbury . 9 5 Otago Wanganui ... 9 5 Wellington Waipukurau. 9 5 Hawke's Bay Waipawa ... 9 5 Hawke's Bay "Wellington... 8 8 Wellington Waikouaiti... 9 5 Otago Westport ... 9 5 Nelson White's Bay. 8 8 Marlborough