Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1222, 15 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. •fpm following'Notice" jto "Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour tight at/Na* pier, prepared from information receiyed from the Provincial Engineer, is published forge sgra] inforniAtion.'' Hens* Befell. PORT AHURJRI. HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows lied on the Pania Rock. Pn and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the Western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and wjll b,e seen on the following bearings from seacard : Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red Erom S.W. by S.iS. to S.W4S. 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 (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 prelautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called me 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 ouoy which is moored oif the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water ■springs. All bearings are magnetic.