Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1216, 8 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branob), '"'' Wellington, £une 23,1871. r fUB following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour LighJ at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for general information. Henjix Se^teli.. POET AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Bed on the Pania Rock. P» and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from' sea-!ward;r-t- ■'"•••'■ '" Eed EromS.E.byS. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S." by E-fEi to S.W. by S.^S. Bed From S.W. by to S.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 observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile oh each side of the rock. Yessels approaching from'the northward should keep in the white light. Masters of vessels coming from the southward will find this light no guide for tHeni, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock, which has only H 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.