Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1147, 16 October 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

pustoms Department (Marine Branch), ' Juno 22,1871. TEELollowing Notice Xo Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineex-, is published forgo Tjeral information. Henby Se^vei-l. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pa/iia Rock. On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seajyard;~ Red EromS.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. Bed ... ... Erom S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.^S. The light will be about 27 fret above high water, jmd 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 seeji one quarter of a mile (Dautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approaching from tlie 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 allpre(cau,tio.rjs .as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called .the Auckland Rock, whicli has Giily 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 5f fathoms at low water jspriugs. ' All bearings are magnetic.