Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1247, 13 February 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department, (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871, 'SfLE following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received; from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge «eral information, . He#b? Seweli. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT, This U$M shows Med on the Tama Rack. Off and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Eed and White Light will he exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following .bearings from seacard Pnm Red ... „. From S.& by S. to S. by E.fE. White .., From S. by E.£E. to S.W. by S.£S. Red From S.W. by S.£S. to S,W.SS. 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 (uautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approaching from the northward should keep in the white light. Masters of vessel coming from the southward .will find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid tho rocky patch called whe Auckland Rock, which lias 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 off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at law water springs. All bearings are magnetic.