Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1301, 17 April 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), . Wellington, June ?2* 1871. 3."h|! following Notice to. Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour-Light at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial, Engineer, is published for ge flcral information. Henex Sewell. FOBT AHUBJRX HARBOUR LIGHT. JThit laght shows Red on the Pania Sock. On and after the Ist 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 Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard : Red from S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red Erom 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 observer'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 prestations as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called \he 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, an.d which lies in 5f fathoms at low water fprings. All bearings are magnetic.