SAILING DIRECTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 223, 6 September 1862, Page 6

SAILING DIRECTIONS

FOR THE ENTRANCE OF THE NEW RIVER, SOUTHLAND, NEW ZHALAND. The accompanying "Notice to Mariners," con taming sailirfj directions tor the entrance of the New River, Southland, New Zealand, which appeared in the Southland Provincial Government Gazette, of the Ist inst., arc published for the information of masters of vessels and others :— Entrance to TnK Ne«' River. Strangers bound lor the New River from the eastward should haul well «ff the land until they open the flagstatf, in order to give time for the pilot to communicate with them by signal, and to board them out idethebar.

If the tide or other circumstances should be unfavorable for a vessel entering, a blue peter will be hoisted at the signal-staff, as a signal for the Tessel to krep to sea. . , On a re I flag being hoisted, a vessel should stand jn keeping the outer beacon—which will be distinctly visible near the water's edge on the extremity of the Sonth Head—in one with the innvr beacon, which is in front oi the pilot's house, on a Bmall green rise. The bearing of the beacons is east by south by comThe pilot, trhoU now provided with goo-1 boats and crew, and "a" substitute in case of absence, will m-v.-u-iaWy board all vessels not showing the exemption rVben about a cable's length from the outer beacon, the channel will show out quite clear, K. f N. by compass, and the vessel can stand up it, keeping not less than half a cable's length from the south sljore. The inner beacons muat then be looked for. lne lower one is conspicuous on the beach a long mile from the pilot station The upper one is amongst the sandhills, about forty feet above the other. Ihe upper one should be kept a very little open on the south side of the lower one, and on no account be opened iv the least to the north of it until abreast of the small beacon next noticed. About midway between the pilot station and the imier beacon, and about a quarter of a mile outside (west) of the Maori village, a small white beacon will be -xiix on the shore, near the edge of the beach, marking a reef which runs out from jt nearly acab.es leugthto the north. This extremity of this reef is also marked by a pile—(a stake with a bush on it —T. ft. A. J. V., A. Y. M.) A vessel may pass thi- at a hslf cable's length, the channel being there two cables length wide. t From thence the course is straight for the Bombay Kock. Buoys are now being prepared for the further marking out the channel; when they*are laid down, due notice will be given of their |)*>itio!is, and of the cbauges which will' then be made in the beacons.