Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1274, 15 March 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington,'June 22,1871. TffP following Jfotice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour -Light at Napier, prepared from information-received from the provincial Engineer, is published for ge neral information. Heney Seweli,. PORT AHUEIBI BARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Booh On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White liigh.t will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from Ward:*Red PromS.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.iS. Red Erom S.W. by to S.W.^S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautipal miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye, The Pania Rock is in the centre of the southwestern red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile jnautical) 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 prer Jautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called jie Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exfends 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 pprings. All bearings are magnetic.