Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1131, 27 September 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), ' Wellington, June 22,1871. (The following Notice to Mariner^, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Ligbt at Napier, prepared from information received from she Provincial Engineer, is published for ge serai ' iIENBy Sewell. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. • Tliis Light shows Red on the Pania RocJc. P® and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a£xed Red and Light will be exhibited from a mast on the ■western extremity o/ 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.f-E. White ... From S. by E.JE. to' S.W. by S.£S. Red From 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 # 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. plasters of vessels' coming from the southward will find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the r.opky 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 northein edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.