Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1112, 5 September 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

.Customs Department Branch), Wellington, jTune 22,1871. #?he following Notice ]to Mariners, announcing the exhibition pf a Harbour Light at K"apier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge Hunr? Se^bll. ?OET AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This light shows Red on the Pania Rock. Pip and after the Ist day of July, ]LB7I, a fixed £ e .d and' White pght will be exhibited from a mast on the jveatera extremity of the Eastern Spit, fort Ahuriri, and will be seen pa the following bearings from seaRed From S.B. by S. to S. «y E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to'S.W. by S.£S. Jed ... .'.. From S.W. by to S.W.iS. The |ight will be about 37 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautipal miles, allowing 1.0 feet for the hejght of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre pf the southwestern red jiglit, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) pa each side pf the rock. Vessels apprpaching from'the northward should keep in the white light. ' Masters pf 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 pu some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exr tends at least pne cable to the southward of the black buoy which is moored off the northein edge of the patch, and which li.es in 6f fathoms at \oyi water pprings. All bearings are magnetic.