DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON:

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 4 March 1864, Page 2

DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON:

(Erom Provincial Government Gazette, Nov. 2.) The entrance to this port being intricate, a stranger should not, nnder any circumstances, attempt to sail in without a pilot, but should make fast to the mooring buey paiu ted black, wliich is placed in twenty-one feet at low water spring tides with the following bearings i- 1 -" Steep Head, S.E. by E. North-west end of Stewart's Island, on ivith Howell's rointvS.by.W.halfW., The "Flagstaff on Bailey's Point, TV. half N. The mooring anchors of -this buoy are placed four hundred and .fifty feet; apart., east and .west from each other ; on <*ach y side'bf the t>uoy care should be taken in dropping an anchor near by, not to hook the moorngß. f .;n; ; y,--'<y nl-iAji-i V.a,) A.-.- *<• ..-• -;•■*• On and after, the.ist.of November, 1863, between stm- : rise and sunset the" following : ' signals will be made at When a vessel is approaching the harbour, a number from Marryatt's Code,- xhuicating^in feet the depth of wateron the bar. at the time, will be hoisted at the nortiryard-annrsl"' .-: .}.■*.- -yy<. hr,:: AAA:. Ay. TiO')-' A black ball hoisted above: this number will show that the sea is too high'oh "the bar for the pilot to get Offi r--~ -■■.- - -.., „-* '.-... ,•;..■ ,:--. „ „.-:.■.' TTwo-Dlack balls without. the number, will mean that somerecentschahgehastakenplace in 'the channel, or thatifcisjd^Bgerons i in.the opinionofjthe pilot even for a coaster acquainted .with attempt to "run in. Vesselfl.outflid^-the'baf or'at'the'ih'&brilSg 'buoy, when the pilot carufbtfg6t bff,- may *&old' communication with ftim by means of Manyatt&JsigniOs, -which on/this case wiil be hoisted at the south yard arm. ! The pUot r >^o^i»jprovided^.^with a boat^andcrew of four men, "vml^wherf if is 'practicable, always^put off in his boat on the approach of a vessel.not having the exemption flag flying. 'i r : !"Ji;:jp j: \ The depth of" water on the bsris at the highest tide?

fourteen feet, and there is rarely less than eight feet at high water lowest neap tides. J. B. Grf.ig, Harbour Master. Harbour Office, Invercuvgill, Stth Octobor, isc.l.