Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1321, 11 May 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), . Wellington, June, «Ms7l. Thb following Notice to announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information!received from $W? Sewblij. ryjtfi AHUBIRI HARBOUR LIGHT, Sfyjk fyght stows Jfc4 \on the Pania Ifyck. On -and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and Whit£Mhl WU'be-exKibited from' a mast bn'the wesjern.extremity of>the Eastern: Spit;, ItoJt) Ahuriri, and, wilr be seeo on the following bearings from seacard;~ Bed Frqi»s.E.byS.,to S. by E.fß. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by'S.iS. Bed ... .;.( From 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 obserfer's eye,; r " • .-■ "•: ,j . ' :■ 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 j vessels coming from the southward will fnd this light no guide for them, and must use all prefautions as heretofore to avoid'the rocky'patch called lube Auckland Rock, which has only 14* feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exfends at least one cable to 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 Springs: All bearings are magnetic.