Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1232, 26 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), "" 'Wellington, June'22,lß7l. following Notice to Mariners, announo* \pg the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier* prepared from information received from *|hd Provincial is published for ge s,eral information. HENsr Sewei/l. jPORT AHUJtiRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This light shpits Red on the Pania Hock. Pn and after the M day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the jrestern extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following hearings from seacard'?-?- ' ■'■'"" ' '■''•"< '•'■"• Red w ... 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.£S. to S.W.£S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles,'allowing 10 feet lor the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western fed light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) oh 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 fpr'jthem, and must use all precautions as heretofore to aypid the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock,'which'has only 14 feet pu some portions of it at low water springs. Tins patch extends at least one cable to the southward of the black ouoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.