SAILING DIRECTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 222, 5 September 1862, Page 6

SAILING DIRECTIONS

FOR THE ENTRANCE OF THE NEW RIVER, SOUTHLAND. NEW ZEALAND. The accompanying " Notice to Mariners,'' contasnin;; saiiiii^ directions lor the eutrance of the New IJiver, Southland, New Zealand, which appeared ia the S'unhland Provincial Government Gazette, of the Ist inst., are p«bli<he I for the information of masters of vessels and others : EXTBISCS TO THE XjW RtVEB. Strangers bound for the Xew River from the eastwar 1 s'l.ul.i haul we!! •3" th-j land until they open the fkgttaif. in <>ni<T to pive time for the pii<it to coininunica'e whh theji by sijmal, aud to board thsni out-swl-th'* bir. If th* tide orot'iK-r <iieum«rances should be un'"avorable for a v<s*?l entering a blue peter will be luisted at the sijrnal-staff, as a signal for the vessel to ki ep to sea. On a re: fla? beinjr hoi-1 il, a vessel sh nil stand in k^ep-nj; the oater baa&iii— wh-ch will l>e distinetlv visible n3*r ths water's esip; ou the extremity of the Suutti Head -in on- with the inn r beacon, "which is in front ot th ■ pilot's house, oa a small green rise. The bearing of the beacons is east by south by compass. The pilot, -vho is now provile-l with roo:1 boats and c ew, and a substitite in case of absence will invnnab'y baarl all vessels not shoving the exemption When about a c.ible's length from the outer beacon tr.e c!i:mn--'l will sh^w o a t quite clear, E|N by compass, anlt'ievesel ca-i i-tiad up it, keeoim; not less tnnn half a cabl-s len-th fw.a the south shore. Ihe inner l«aeon< must thea be looked fo- The lower one is conspicuous oa the bea-h along mile from t*ie p:Iot st:t«oii The upper one is amongst t>e S4ndl.il!s, abaut forty feet above the other The UT^ron-3 should he k.-pt a ver>- little open on the soi'h ssde of the lower one, and on no account be «>ix.n d m the least to the north of it uatil abreast of the -maH t>eae>a n^xt uotic^d. About midway between »he pi'ot station and the inner beacon..and aiwut a quart rof a mile outsiHe (west) of t.:e Waon village, a small white beacon wiil be seen on the shore, near the edfre of the b-acb ina-Kiug a reef which runs out fnftj it nearly a cnbie's leiiscth to the north Tais extremUv of this reef i 3 also marked by a piie-{a stake with a bush on it—T iip vi .JA* ?■ ll^ A ve<sel m V Pass thi at a h .If cable s len-th, the ohaauel being there two cable's lentrtb wiiie. From thencs the course is straight for the Bombay Kock. liuoys are now beinj prepared ior the further uiarkni- out the channel; v.hen they aie laid down due notice wilt i*e qivan of their podtio is, and of the c tangos which will f ten be made in the beacons