Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1304, 20 April 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine ? ranch), Wellington, June 2?, 1871. L?HE following Notice to Mariners, announojpg the exhibition of a Harbour Jiight at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for genera} Information. Henby Seweh. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGJJT. This lAffht shows Red on the Pania Rock. On and after the Ist day pf July, 1871, a fixed Red auc« 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 ... ... Prom S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by SIS. Red Erom S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.|S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, 9nd should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allpwing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western |ed light, whiqh 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 allprelautions 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. Tins patch exfends at least one cable to the southward of the black cuoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Bprings. All bearings are magnetic.