Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1149, 18 October 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

.Customs Department JBranch), Wellington, June %% 1871. 'PJhe following Notice to Iklariners, announcing the exhibition Jjrf a,Harbour Light at Naipier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge ■R^/ nform^ tio »' Heney Sewell. AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. 'This Light shows Red on the Pania JLock, f C)N and after the Ist day of fjfiy, 1871, a gxed 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 tlie following bearings from seaward :-r ' £ed FromS.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. tied Prom S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.JS. 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. > T ; he Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red flight, 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. Masters of ve'ssels'soming from the southward will .find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called ,ihe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 .feet on some 'portions of it at low water springs. This patch ex,tends at least one cable to the southward of the black iuoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. ' - All bearings are magnetic.