Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1173, 16 November 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

£uatoms Department Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. jtyps following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Racier, prepared froin 'information received from ijlie Provincial Engineer, is published for ge sjeral Henby Sewell. PORT AHURJRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pauia Rock. P?iand after the Ist day,of July, 1871, a fixed Red .and White Light will 'be exhibited frp.m a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard:— '"'.'! Red From S.E. by §. to S. by E.fE. White" ... From S.' ,by E.fE. to S.W. by S.iS. Red From S.W. 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 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet tor 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 on each side of the rock. Vessels approaching from'th.e 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 palled the Auckland Rock, which has only 14 teet 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 mooted off the northein edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water bprings. 1 All bearings are magnetic.