Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1276, 18 March 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), ■•/•.•— Wellington, June g2> 1871. Thjs 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 flera} information. Henex Sewei*. POET AHURJRI HARBOUR JJGHT. This Light shows Bed on the Pania Rod. Qtfapd" after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red jiut! White Light 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 seacard }w Bed from SJ3. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From Br by E,fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red „. ... From S.W. by S4S. to S.W.f 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 ted light, whiph will be seen one quarter of a mile Jnautical) on each side 6f the rock. Vessels approach? ipg from the northward should keep in the white light. Masters' of vessels coming from the southward will find' thislight no guide for them, and must use allpreJautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called die xluckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some portions pf it at low water springs. This patch extends at least one cable to the southward of the black puoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which Jies in 5f fathoms at low water (springs. ' All bearings are magnetic,