Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1192, 8 December 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

.Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, j£ne $2, 1871. following Notice .to |£arineri, announcing the exhibition Ojf a Harbour Light; at Naoier, prepared froni information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge> W$ fflPJWfrti 0 } I*' 1 *' Hens? Se^tell. £ORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows. Bed on the Pania RocJf. P*J and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Bed .and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the Western extremity of the Eastern Spi£ Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard;— ' ' " ' •- ■ "••■ " ■'■' ' Red from S.E. by S. ip S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red Erom S.W. by to S'.W.JS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, pnd should'be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet Cor the height of the obser'ver's eye. The Pania Bock 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 apprpa,ch r ing 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 extends at least one cable to the southward of the btack buoy which is moored off the' northern'edge of the : patch, and which lies in 5£ fathoms at low water Bprings. ' ...... '' All bearings are magnetic.