NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 212, 13 August 1862, Page 4

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Nevr Zealand, Province of Ne'son.—Fixed Light on Boulder Bank, Blind Bay.—His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified, that on the night of Monday, the fourth day of August next an/l every night thereafter, from the going away of daylight in the evening to the return of daylight in the morning, a Light will be exhibited from the undermentioned Lighthouse, the position and characteristics of which have been specified by John Blackett, Esq., Engineer and James Smith Cross, Harbor-Master, of the Province of Nelson, as follows:— Nelson Harbor Light, Blind Bay, Nelson Lighthouse is situated on the S.W. end of the Boulder Bank, ten miles S.S.W. of Pepin bland, and half a mile N. and by E. of the Powder Magazine. The Light will be Catadioptric of the fourth order, a fixed White Light, and will be exhibited from an octagonal Tower of Iron, painted white, erected on the Boulder Bank. The light will be about sixty (60) feet above high water of spring tides, and will be seen in clear weather at the'distance of about twelve and a half (12|) nautical milos allowing ten (10) feet for tne height of the eye, and at lesser distances according to the state of the atmosphere. The Lighthouse is situated in Latitude, 41 ° 15' o" South. Longitude, 173° 17' 7" East, with the following bearings :— Compass Bearings to Light, which illuminates an are of 119|°..-. The Light will be visible from "W. by S. westerly, round by north to N. and by E. % E. From off Croixelies Harbor— ■ ■■ ■ S. 19J °. W., or S. and by W. fW. From off Extreme End of the Sand Spit off Cape arewell— S. 2Q\ ° E., or S.S.E. £ E. Easterly. From Waimea West— N. 80° E., or E. and by N. Easterly. The Outer Anchorage— The Light bearing East South East. 6 fathoms low water. Caution.—-Masters of Vessels are cautioned not to shut the Light in, nor to approach within one {].) mile of the point upon which the Lighthouse is erected. The bearings are Magnetic. Variation, 15° East in 1856. .. : Henry Adams, For Alfred Dohett, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, July 30,1862. ■

The Tassiaxian Matd. — This steamer, so recently wrecked on.the bar of the]-Wairau river, and -which, having- been condemned "after a proper survey, was sold far £410, arrived in our harbor on Sunday last. It appears that she had been washed high upon a shingle bank, and had already become ao considerably imbedded in it as to require a large number of hands to attempt her release from so perilous a position. A subsequent freshet in the Wairau river, however, washed away so much of the shingle around her as to render the task of floating her a comparatively easy Tone. After a few necessary repairs the Tasmanian Maid was again brought round to Nelson. Since bar arrival she has keen placed upon the cradle, and a thorough examination has only discovered serious injury to one paddle-box, but the other damage is so slight that it will speedily be repaired.— Nelson Examiner.