Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1324, 15 May 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. The following 'Notice \> Announcing the f|bi)?rticfn o( aiHagbflufoJlSfght at Napier, prepared fromi information, the' Provincial* Engineer, is' for g|f ueTUlanformatibnL' ! ! ;' ! Se#ih, »; o.iSbit*ri AHUiiißt 'harbour ugat. ThUi Light Photos itetfi on the Pdriia Bbok. Ortand after, the IsLday of 187-I,' a fixed Red and White Ligjht from, a mast <?n ; the western extremity of the Eastern and will be seen on the folio wing, bearings from seacard : , Red From S.E. hy'S.' to S. ; by E.fE. White ... Erom S. by Eifß to. S.W.by S.£S. Red ... ... From S.W.by ,S.£S. to. S,W.SS. Tlie'light will be about '%% feet above high water, and should be visible 1 /in clear' weather, about 9 nautical, miles, alio wing 1Q feet for the heyjhtof the obserrer'seye." '' " r -" J /. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of ! a iriile (nautical),on each, side, of the rock., Vessels approaching front the north wara 1 should keep in the white light. Masters'of vessels coming iVChi 'the southward will find, this ligh£, no gunks for, them, and must use .all pretentions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called tfieAirckland Rock, which? has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exat least one cable to. the southward of the black which is moored off the northeinedge of the patch, and which' lies in 'sf fathoms at low water springs, ;.. ~ . . ':; All bearings are magnetic.