NOTICE TO MARINEES.

Southland Times, Issue 556, 7 September 1866, Page 2

NOTICE TO MARINEES.

(From the New South Wales "Government Gazette," 20th July. Mobetos* Bat — Bbisbane Eiveb. — On ana after this date, a hght will be exhibited from Lytton, which will be visible from the beacon immediately above Luggage Point, — eastward to the fishermen Islands. Vessels passing up the river sk-uld keep Luggage Point within two ship's lengths, until the small gap through the manaroves above tbe point is opened ; they should thenhaul up and steer direct for the light at Lytton, until the large black buoy off the Boat Channel is sighted, after passing which, they can shape a course up the river as usual. Vessels steering up the river, towards Lytton w iU — while keeping this hght in sight — be clear of the bank, and the two red buoys on the west side of the channel. By order of the Marine Board, G. P. Heath, Lieutenant E.N., Portmaster. Port-office, July 10th, 1866.

Insbb Bottte to Tobbes' Stbaits. — The following Beacons have been erected for the Queensland Government by H.M.S. Salamander, for the guidance of -vessels taking the Inner Route viz : — d. Eeef, Princess Charlotte's Bay— Latitude 14-7*30 S., on the S,W., end of the sand bank, a beacon facing east and west, with large D painted ■white on a black ground. y Eec off Cape Direction — Latitude 12*40 S., ablack rectangular beacon is placed on the western edge of this reef. The sand shown on the chart is covered at high water. d. Eeef, off Monkhouse Point. — Latitude 15*10*30. A screw pile — on which a beacon is about to be erected — is placed on the western edge of this reef. Mariners aTe cautioned that two coral patches have been reported as lying between Nos. 1 and 2 Claremount Islands and the shoal off the mainland, — in the neighborhood of the course laid down on the Admiralty charts as that which should be used at night. It is recommended, therefore, that at night a course should be steered so as to pass to the eastward of the above islands G. P. Heath, Lieutenant, E.N., Portmaster. Port Office, ISth July, 1866.