Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1117, 11 September 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), ' Wellington, June 22,1871. .(•The 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 aeral information. Hene? Seweli. JPORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Liffht shoivs Red on the Pauia Hock. ,On and after the Ist clay of July, 1871, a fixed Red and sMiite Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the ' Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will'he seen oh 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 From S.W. by 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 pf the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter pf 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, winch has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exends at least one cable to the southward of the black buoy whicli is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5J fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.