Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1230, 24 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), v "' "?. Wellington, £une 22,1871. following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Naoier, prepared from information received frpm gtffg Provincial Engineer,is published for ge TBprai information."' Hekbt Sit well. ?OBT AHUBIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. JTA** ,On and after the Ist day of July, 187.1, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Aliuriri, and v* 311'be seen ou the following Hearings from seatrard;—- '. ''"'■ " """' Red From S.E. by S. to S. .by E.fE. While ... From S. by E.f.E. to S.W. by S.£S. Red ' ... ... From S.W. by S.£S. to'S.W.SS. The ligi;; Will be about 27 fret above high water, and should be visible, ;n clear weather, about 9 nautical links, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Fqek is in the centre of the south-western red light, which' will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on ei<cli 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 allprejautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock, which has only 1* feet on some fottions of it ar low water springs. This patch expends at least one cable to the southward of the black puoy which is moored off the nortnei n edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. ' All bearings arc magnetic.