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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1107, 30 August 1871, Page 4

NOTICE TO MABINEKS. Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. The following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Nacier, prepared from information received from ihe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge -serai information. Henbt Seweli. NOTICE TO MARINERS. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Bed on the Pania JtocL 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. 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 (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 Stations in this Colony, with the hours during which the offices are open, will be of value to many of our readers : G <U Name. 2L £ Province. O O A.M. P.M. Alexandra ... 9 5 Auckland Alexandra... 9 5 Otago Auckland ... 9 o 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 «5 Wellington Cheviot 9 5 Nelson Christchurch. 8 8 Canterbury Charleston ... 9 5 Nelson Clyde 9 5 Otago Cromwell ... 9 5 Otago Dunedin 8 : 8 Otago Featherston.. 9 5 Welli jgton Gvt. B-jildgs. 10 4.30 Wellington Grey mouth... 9 5 Westland Gieytown ... 9 5 Wellington Hokitika ... 9 5 Westland Hamilton ... 9 5 Auckland Havelock ... 9 5 Marlborough Hutt 9 5 Wellington Invercargill.. 9 5 Southland Kaiapoi 9 5 Canterbury Kaikoura ... 9 5 Marlborough Lawrence ~. 9 5 Otago Lyttelton ~.8 8 Canterbury Marton 9 5 Wellington Masterton ... 9 5 Wellington 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 Ota]u 9 5 Wellington Palmerston... 9 5 Otago Patea 9 5 Taranaki Picton 9 5 Marlborough Port Chalmers 8 8 Otago Queenstown., 9 5 Otago Roxburgh ... 9 5 Otago Selwyn ~.,,. 9 5 Canteibury Spit, Port Ahuriri 9 5 Hawke's Bay Temuka 9 5 Canterbury Thames 9 5 Auckland Timaru 9 5 Canterbury Tokomairiro.. 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 On Sundays, Public Holiday h, and within each Province the Anniversary of such Province, rom 10 a.m. to 10.30 a,m, and from 5 p.i to 30 p.m.