Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1303, 19 April 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington,. June 22,1871. The following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour "light at Napier, prepared from information.Receivedfrom jjhe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge> aeral information. Henjry Sewel/li. POBT AfiUBIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. ' TMs Eight shows Red on. the Pania Bock. On andafter the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red aud White Light will be exhibited from a mast an the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Aliuriri, pnd will be seen, on the following bearings from seaIrard:— Red ... .... From S.E. by S, to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.iS. Red From S,W. by to S.W.^S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, ?md should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Roek is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approachiug 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 itbe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet ou some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exfiends at least one cable tq 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 iprings. All bearings are magnetic.