NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Marine Board, General Post office, ?r •;.: Anckland, Jan. U, 1864. The following notice, received from the Marine Boards ■ to a sunken rock near Napier, Hawke's Bay, is published for general information. . . - >; ;■ ; "'■• " Vm. Fox, ■ ...: ■. : :■ jo r £he Postmaster General. The position of the sunken rock in Hawke's Bay, upon which the steamship Auckland struck in August, 1863, . has bsen ascertained by Mr. Murray, Harbor Master and Pilot of the Port of Napier. r The, following bearing and distance is given,;viz.— -' " ' It is a shoal with four fathoms, having numerous tJetached?: 'rocks extenßing north and south a quarter of a mile. in length. The Bluff " Scinde Island bears from the. northernmost end of the shoal, west by compass, distant one mile, Cape Kidnappers south-east. ' By direction of -the Provincial Government of Hawke's" Bay a buoy has been laid down, half a cable's length from the north end of the shoal. (Signed) Thos. Mueeay, ', . - ) . : Harbor Master and Pilot. Marine rßoard office, Wellington, Jan. 2, 1864. Chs. -Shaep, >> Master Warden, Marino Board.
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 41, 10 February 1864, Page 2
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171NOTICE TO MARINERS. Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 41, 10 February 1864, Page 2
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