Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1302, 18 April 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June:23 >f 1871. The following Notice to Mariners,-announc-ing the exhibition of a Harbour Xight at Napier, prepared from information received: from' the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge apteral information. ILenby Sewell. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This lAght shows Red on the Pania Rock. 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 and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard : Bed From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... Prom S." by KfE. to S.W. by S.-^S. Red from S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.^S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, ?nd 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 ted light,' which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical): on eaph 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 allprelautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called pie Auckland Hock, 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 ptch, and which lies in 5f fathoms, at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.