Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1179, 23 November 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine |Jrancb), Wellington, June 22, ' !fp& following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at 3Sabier, prepared from infprmatjon received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge saeral information. Henby Sewell. PORT AHIJRIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This UgU shows Red on the Pania Bock. PN 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 SpifC Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seaward:— Red EromS.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... FromS. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£B. Red Eroni S.W. by to S.W.fS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautipal 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 Jight. 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 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 pf the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.