Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1313, 1 May 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. The following Notice, to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbpnr... Xpght at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial. Engineer, is published for ge • ueral information. Henby Seweli. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR tIGHT. This laght shows Bed on the Pania Bock On and after the Ist day of 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:— Bed FromS.E.byS. to 8. by E.fE. White ... From S: by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red Erom S.W. by to S.W.fS. 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 obserrer's eye. The Pania Rock 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 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 allpretautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch culled tfie 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 northein edge of the patch, and which lies in 6| fathoms at.>low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.