NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1096, 17 August 1871, Page 4

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

iCustonis Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June %% 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. JIENBY Sewe;ll. NOTICE TO MARINERS. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pa/ria Rode. 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 pn 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.|S. Red ... ... Ercni S.W- by S.i-S. to S.W.SS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautipal miles, allowing 10 feet lor 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 patcli called the Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet ou some portions of it at low water springs. This patch extends at least pne 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.