Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1191, 7 December 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), r ' r ' : Wellington,^une|2,lß7L following Notice -to |£ariners, announcing the exhibition a Barbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from this £rpv,in.cjal Engineer, is published for ge seral information. ' Um? Seweljj. •PORT HARBOjUR LIGHT. This Light shows Bed on ihe Pania Bocfa Pw and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a ixed 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 the following bearings from seacard;— " ' '" Red From S.E. by g. to S. by E.fE. 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 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye.

The Fania 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 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 Rock, which" has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. ' This patch exlends 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 aprings. '"' All bearings are magnetic.