PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

West Coast Times, Issue 36, 26 August 1865, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

1. Ball and red flag at the mast head . high water, take the bar. 2. Ball and blue flag, half mast : Half flood, watt for tide. "When the bar may safely be attempted at half tide, whether flood or ebb, the red flag will be at the mast head over the ball, denoting the state of tide. 3. Ball on the tower mast cap, and white flag : Ebb tide, bar dangerous. 4. No signal : Do not attempt the bar. 5. Red painted arm, pointed to the right-hand, entering from seaward : More to the south. 6. The other arm, pointed to the left hand, entering from seaward : More to the north. 1, The arms up and down with the mast : As you goWhen more than one vessel is crossing the bar, the foremost vessel will be piloted in, the others following in her wake. On a movable pole in front of the signal jnast, the two in one showing the fairway, will be hoisted (if necessary) to show the set of the current on the bar, thus :—: — A red and white pendant — to the Northward ; A square yellow flag— to the Southward. On the flagstaff not in use for the piloting signals, at high water the depth in feet on the bar will be denoted by Marryatt's code. A red light is hoisted on the signal mast on the south spit each night, visible at from three to four miles. There will be an- anchor and chain, and line attaohed, on the South Spit, and boat and boat's crow in readiness at high water, every tide, to assist any vessel coming over the bar. When the bar is only fit for steamers to take, a red flag will be hoisted on the north flagstaff. When for sailing vessels, a red flag and ball. •Masters of vessels are particularly repuested to attend to the small tidal flag on the spit, as the small tidal flag and the largo flag in one takes them over the bar.