NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1097, 18 August 1871, Page 4

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 23,1871. Tee 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. Henbt Sewell. Notice to mariners. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Rock. On and after tlie 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. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S..W. by S.£S. Red From S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.£S. 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 (nauticiil) on eiich 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 5f fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.