NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 224, 8 September 1862, Page 4

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

south I'AUirie ockax. —i>j3r.onys kekp. Infbrmntioii has been " iv<\ iwi! at" tlie Admiralty that 11.M.5. lVlnnn, when navl<rn:bu* between JVe\r Zealand and the l*'iji, on the 12th July, l.«Gl, pa%*-d within a third of :i in! b> of :i reef, which lippeaitd to be about a (jiiavtfr of a mih in hrnuth, am! to have not i/joiv tlian oiio or tu,»fa! liiiins writer oa its ue^tfrn end, at the r-xtivwity of which breakers wore- vi-ib].-. I's position is in latitirit- 22 tlcg. iViJ- njiii, H., lotiu'. 170 (leg. 27 i»in. f>o fees. \ve<;f from Grcenv.iuh. P\Jstnarl Island was in Kiftli', and Lore N. by K. 37 miles. Also that, sftrr dark -on tlie evemnjr of the .■nine <lay. when stpt-iinc; X.W. muler rodiioed sn'i, Komnihtfp were olitaine.i with the hand hal in 7 f:Uliom-<, fallowed by two wts of GJ mi'l'7 fntf-nnss rtspec-j tivcly. The ves-fl',v:w iniin^Uately "ltruuclit t..» the' wind and tacked, a:i.l the deop sea 'vwl hove, but, no soinulii)2^ were obtained y.-ithin 03 fntiioms. Tlrs bank, if it exists', is in kit. 21 deg. -i:j mm. S., lon<*. 170 cJey. 42miu. W. ° Caution.—As t'jese slioals liadiicctlv in the track of vi-ssels bourn! from Nuu- Z'.aiand to llic wiudv/nnl ; is!aii'l-i of the Fiji (he mariner is cautioned to ! pay great attention' to th« load, and to ko^-p a <!<vxl \ look-out for di-colouvcd wator when in this neighbor- ' hood. :■' * ■ Tlie natives of tSic Friendly Islands, who tnaitttain much intercourse-with the'Piji groups by means of i their largo nnnoes, ?tite that they ar« aware of the ! existence of ninny shoals botween and the I Ono Islands .to_ ihe south of the Fiji group, but are I unable tv define" their position. The only bank of | which them is any reliable hifonnntioii. is oneof tome | extent, havinat>2 fUthonis of water on it. It was ills- j covered in Aupiist, IS'^>, Ly tbr,^e Amftricm v;halera j in company, and tlio'mcan of tht-ir ob-ervauons pLieo j it in latitude '22 dog. i' 3 mm. smith lon-itude 170 dcg. j 11 min'. v.re*t. j The 1.-earinpiarojna^nctie. Vari UioulOdrg. CO mm. ! cast in 18(51. ~ | By emnunrid of their lur !sh'p* ( | ■Joiix Washington, HviliographtT. I Ilydrofrraphio Ofri'jf, Ad.iiiralty, " j London, Octcbt-VS, i.S'JI. " | This notii-a nff c!s the fallowing Admiralty Charts, i on which the-e daubers aio marked :—l'acific Ocean, I Genera! Chart, No.'2,Gßj; and I'auifio Ocean, Sheet 6, No. 2,404.