NOTICE TO MARINERS. (From the Government Gazette, Oct. 24.)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 59, 22 November 1845, Page 2

NOTICE TO MARINERS. (From the Government Gazette, Oct. 24.)

There is a very dangerous sunken rock lying between the Great and Little Barrier Islands, (about three and a quarter miles distant from the latter island), from which the following bearings were taken : — South end of the Little Barrier, or " Shoutou*ou" island, due west (magnetic). Wellington head (Great Barrier Island), north east, by north, | north. Eastern extremity of Kauwau island, south-west, | south. MutuTahapa, a small island near Cape Colville, south-east, | east. The sea does not usually break upon this rock during moderate weather, but at times breaker! can be seen on it from several miles distance, and at low water the top of the rock may be seen axongst the breakers. The soundings taken showed three fathoms close to the breakers, and fourteen fathoms within a cable's length of them. David Rough, Harbour Master. Auckland, 22d Oct., 1845.

H.M.S. •• Fly."— The Fly left Singapore on the 3d August, after landing part of the shipwrecked passengers and crews of the Coringa Packet and Hydrabad, fifty-five in number. H.M.S. Osprey had been despatched for New Zealand, one week previously. Vice-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, with H.M.S. Agincourt, Vestal, Dadalus, Wottierine^Cruizer, Royalist, and Vixen, steamer, and the Honorable East India Company's steamers Pluto and Nemesis, fead gone on to Borneo, in the beginning of August. The only vessel spoke by the Fly was, H.M.S. Espiegle, in the straits of Banca, four months from England, one of which had been spent in attempting to effect a landing at Kerguelen's Land, in search of shipwrecked crews, which they oould not effect, owing to the roughness of the weather. Information had been received at Singapore, that the brig Spy, on her passage from Sydney to China, had fallen in with a raft inside th« Barrier, on which were part of the native crew of the Coringa Packet. Many had perished whilst on the raft, and three had preferred remaining on the islet, where it is to be hoped tho^Frolic will fall in with them. The Spy had also taken on board the captain and crew of the Maid qf Athens, which vessel had been lost on the Barrier during her passage hence to China. — Sydney Morning Herald.

"The Marian Watton has been taken up by the French Catholic Mission, and is loading for the South Sea Islands.

New Island. — Captain Simmons has discovered a new island in the Pacific. It is situate in the track from Otaheite to Valparaiso, in south latitude 21 degrees and 10 minutes. He named it the Isle of Faith, from his vessel.