Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1285, 28 March 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. Jej following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineei', is published for ge #eral information. Henby Sewell. POET AJIURJRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Bed on the Pania Rock. On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red suit White Light will be exhibited from ?i mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seep on the following bearings from seatyard :-^ Bed From S.E. by.S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.^S. Red From S.W. by to S.W iS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, pnd should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautipal miles, allowing 10 feel for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western ted 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 precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock, which has 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 5| fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.