Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1208, 28 December 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), "Wellington, June 22,1871. f fp.E following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition pjfa Harbour Lightat Napier, prepared from information received from ihe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge information. JHenb? Seweil. £ORT ABtfRIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. fMs Light shows; Red on the Bani&.Rock. £)*Und after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red 4 aud 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 seayard;— Red From S.E. by S. .to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Bed EromS.W. toS.W.iS. 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 pbserr yer's eye. • The Tania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be. seen one quaitec 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 tile' black huoy which is moored off the northei n edge of the patch, and which lies in 5| fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.