Immediate payment in cash to be an indispensable condition of Sale. City ok Auckland. Given under my hand, and issued under the Seal of the Province of New Ulster, at Auckland, this 7th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. ii. n. w YNYARD, Lieutenant-Governor. By IT is Excellency’s command, Anurfw Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. Gon Save ime Qurfn ! Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, January 7th 185#. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Go-vernor directs the publication of the accompanying- letter from Capt. Drury, of H.M.S Pandora, with its enclosures, for general information. By His Excellency’s command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. 11. M. Surveying Vessel Pandora, Auckland, 31st Dec., 1852. OIR, —I have much pleasure in laying k3 before His Excellency the LieutenantGovernor such remarks which occur to me as likely to bo useful to the Maritime Public. In these remarks I confine myself entirely to those portions of the coast which have come within the limits of the Pandora's survey, which commenced at Doubtless Bay, and extended round the North Cape to the South Head of Kaipara, including the rivers Awanui, Parengarenga, Ohora, Hokianga, and Kaipara, and the small anchorages along the coast. The surveys on the East Coast to this date include Mercury Ray, and Mangrove River, Tauranga Harbour and River, and a visit to the islands and isolated reefs in the Bay of Plenty. 1 shall also hereafter offer some remarks on the nature of the country received from the officers conducting the overland expeditions. With the exception of the small space between Manakau and Kaipara, the coast from Monganui in Doubtless Bay round to Taranaki lias been walked, and indeed triangulated, but I am not prepared with mature information south of Kaipara until the conclusion of this season. His Excellency will be glad to learn that the charts of Hokianga have been received at the Admiralty per Cashmere, and that by this time, all the others, excepting those in the Bay of Plenty, must have arrived, having been despatched from Sydney in August last. In the meantime 1 shall be willing to show any of the originals, or afford such further information as the public may be in want of. Much may bo done to render the northern ports more available, but 1 will mention that the Colonial Government cannot too early pay attention to the access to Kaipara (so difficult to find at present), by placing two beacons, made of the largest kauri spars, one on the sands at the North Head at high water, and another on the hills someway within, that when in line the entrance may be known. The positions will bo found in the Survey Office, where I have left copies of the entrances to this river. The lower beacon should be black, to contrast with the white sands behind. The same might be done with advantage on the southern shore. Having both beacons in one on either shore would lead to the exact entrance; but should only one be seen it would guide to the proper direction. A refuge harbour north of Doubtless Bay might be made of the river Awanui, by placing a buoy on the end of the reef extending from Tikotiatea, after passing which there is a safe anchorage in from 5 to 7 fathoms in any wind. Had this river, or the Ohora been better known, the Mcmlcin might have been saved. His Excellency will sec that the Kaipara beacons and' the Awanui buoy arc the only points connected with the North Coast that I would wish to urge upon the immediate consideration of Government. Tauranga might be made a safe harbour of refuge, by buoying the entrance—even one buoy would make it comparatively simple. And Mangrove River, in Mercury Bay, requires two buoys to make it generally available to strangers. I now' forward sailing directions of the North and West Coast. The Bay of Plenty is not completed. We arc about to proceed to the West Coast, and to sound more thoroughly between the North Cape, Cape Maria Van
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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 703, 8 January 1853, Page 3
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