NEWLY DISCOVERED ROCK IN HAWKE'S BAY.
Sometime in the beginning of last month, Mr. Murray, the Harbor Master, discovered a very dangerous rock nearly half a mile off the Bluff. It is altogether in a different position to what has hitherto been designated the Auckland shoal ; although it is believed that this is the rock upon •which the steamer Auckland struck in August last It is described as a sort of perpendicular jock steep on all sides except the east side, where it gradually slopes off. The circumference of the top «f the rock is about ten feet, with twelve to fourteen feet of water over it, and from twenty to thirty close by. Mr. Murray has meanwhile placed a buoy about 50 feet outside, or to the north of the danger, and the precise bearings will, we presume, be shortly published. It is a very dangerous rock— directly in the track of vessels bound to and from Napier— and it is a fortunate thin" that none of the other large steamers have struck it The Auckland, it will be remembered, touched her keel only, and was thus saved, no doubt., from very serious injury.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 27 August 1864, Page 2
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195NEWLY DISCOVERED ROCK IN HAWKE'S BAY. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 27 August 1864, Page 2
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