Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1146, 14 October 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 Napjer, prepared from information received from die Provincial Engineer, is published for ge ■aeral information. Hekey Sewell. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This JAght shows Bed on the Pania Rook. ,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 sea|ward:— Eed From S.E. by S. to S. by B.fJE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red From S.W. by S.iS. to S.W.JS. -The light will be about 27 feet above high water, .and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nauti,'cal miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the pbserver's eye. ■ The Panja 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 approachr ing 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 oil some portions of it at low water springs. This patch extends at least one cable to the southward of the black jbuoy which is nioored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 6£ fathpms at low water Springs. ' All bearings are maguetic.