IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 75, 12 August 1843, Page 298

IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.

[From the Singapore Frte Prest, March 30.]

Notice is hereby given, that a Floating Light is stationed in the Fair Channel into Bombay Harbour, about three-quarters of a mile in the S. W. by S. from the Fair Way Buoy in about 9 fathoms at high water, and 7 fathoms at low spring tides, with the following bearings and distances : — Flag Staff on Malabar Point, N. 5 deg. 46 mm. E., distant 6*90 nautical miles. The Light House on Colaba, N. 21 deg. 34 mm. E., distant 4*56 nautical miles.

The Fair Way Buoy, N. E. by N., distant threequarters of a mile. The Floating Light at the Sunken Rock, N. 38 deg. 50 mm. E., distant 4*68 miles. Kennery Island, S. 14 deg. 15 mm. E., distant 7*43 miles.

The point of the S. W. Prong in 6 fathoms foul ground, bears N. about 2 miles. The middle of Thull Shoal, E.S.E. 2 miles.

When approaching the harbour, if the Floating Light vessel is seen bearing on any point from N. by E. round to the eastward as far as S. E. by S., a ship might steer directly for it, and when up with the Light Vessel, should steer from her N. E. easterly, so as to pass about three-quarters of a mile to the eastward of the other Light Vessel, which is moored about a quarter of a mile to the southward of the Sunken Rock. After rounding the Rock Light Vessel, you may steer more northerly, and if it be at night, should anchor about 1 mile to the N. E. by N. from it, where the water will be smooth. The south point of the Middle -Ground Shoal bears N.N.E., distant 2 miles from the Rock Light Vessel. Both Light Vessels are painted red, each carrying a ball on 4he Light Mast, and during daylight they hoist a Red Pag when a sail is in sight. The outer Floating Light burns a Blue Light at the end of each hour during the night, and displays a torch at the half hours. The flood tide comes in from S. W. and ebb from the N. E. It is high water at twelve hours on full and change of the moon . D. Ross, Bombay, 28 Dec, 1842: Master Attendant. Note. — The Floating Light was tried during the last Monsoon and rode well, but in the event of her , leaking adrift, the Fair Way Buoy is continued at its station. '' - '- (True copy.) _ T. Church, Resident Councillor at Singapore. . ' Singapore, 18th March, 1843. .

Caution to.Sklf-i.ove. — Let . us ask ourselves in the closet, ' whether, after we have humbled ourselves before God in our prayers, we never rise beyond the due standard in the 1 pulpit; whetner our zeal for the truth be never over-heated by internal fires less holy; whether we never grow stiffly or sternly pertinacious, at the very time when we are reproving the obstinacy of others ; and whether we have not frequently so acted, as if we believed that opposition were to be relaxed and borne away by. self-sufficiency and intolerance. Believe me, the wisest of us have our catechism j to learn ;. and -these, my dear friends, are pot the only questions contained in it. No Christian can bate- no Christian can malign; nevertheless, do we not often both hate and malign those unhappy menwho are insensible to God's mercies? And I fear this unchristian spirit dwells darkly, with all its venom, • in the marble of our hearts, not because our brother is insensible to these mercies, but became he is intensible to our faculty of, persuasion, turning a deaf ear unto our claims upon his obedience, or a blind or sleepy eye upon the fountain of light, whereof we deem ourselves the sacred reservoirs. — Landor't Examination of William Sbaktpean. - t 23ie English is the only European language in which the addrew to a mixed assembly runs •'Ladies and Gentlemen." Even the French, notwithstanding their pretensions to gallantry, say " Messieurs et MttdamH."