Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1284, 27 March 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington; June 22,1871. 5"HI! follQwing Notice to. Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from Engineer, is'.published for ge »eral information. Henby Sewell. port' ahurir! harbour light. This tight shows Red on the Pania Rooh. Oh and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red pud White kightvyill be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit,, Port Ahuriri, pod will be seen on the following bearings from seacard :~* Bed FromS;B. byS. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.£E. to S.W. by S.^S. Bed ... ... Erom S.W. by S.iS: to S.W.iS. 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 obserrer'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) 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 prelautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called Vhe Auckland Kock, which has only 14 feet ou some portions of it at low water springs. This patch expends 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.