Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1187, 2 December 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

pustoms Department (Marine Wellington, June 22,187 L £he following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Natyjer, prepared from information received from tjtte Provincial Engineer, is published for g'e serai information. ' Henb* Sewell.

PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. !fhis JAght 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 extremity of tlie Eastern Spit, Port Ahnriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard;-;- '■••••-•'■••'

Red EromS.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S'.' by E.fE. to S.W. by S.jfS. Red Erom S.W. by S.|S. to S.W.f 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 for the height of the obser,yer'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 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 R-pck, 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 northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. '' All bearings are magnetic.