Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1265, 5 March 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Cußtoms Department Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. 'J following Notice to Mariners, announoiTf it exhibition of a Harbour Light at NaDier, prepared from information r&ceivdd fro'm *he Provincial Engineer, is published for ge serai information. Henei* Sewell.

POET AHLTBIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Rook. On and after the,lst 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 Ahutiri, And will be seen on.the following bearings from seaward : Bed From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fJE. "White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Bed From 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 for the height of the obserter's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western ted light, which will he '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 precautions us heretolore to avoid the rocky patch called tfiexlucklfind Hock, which, has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exlends at least one cable to the southward of the black ouoy which is moored off the northein edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Bprings. All bearings are magnetic.