Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1202, 20 December 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs department (Marine Branch), : • Wellington, June 1871. " £JThe following" Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour r l4ght at Napier, prepared from" infenhation received from the ProyinCial Engineer, is published for gesgral information.'' " • Henby Sewem;.

POET AMURrei HARBOUR .LIGHT., This Light shows . [Bed' on the Pania Bock. f Otf and after the Ist day of July/1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be'exhibited front a mast on the : western extremity of the Eastern Spit;-Pott Ahnriri, wiU.be s&n on; the following bearings from seaward : v.

Bed FromS.E.JsyS. to S. ,by E.fß. White ... From S. by ElfEV 1 to SM. by S.£S. Hed From S.W. by S.iS. to S.W;£S.

The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, abont 9 nautical jniles, allowing 10 feet for the height Of the bbser'ver's eye. ' ■ • '" The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will "be seeii 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 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 northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 6| fathoms at low water springs.' ■ - All bearings are magnetic.