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West Coast Times, Issue 84, 16 December 1865, Page 1

DI SA A C S A N 1) CO., • AUCTIONEERS, Valuators and Commission Agents, OPPOSITE THE CAMP RESERVE. Liberal advances made on all merchandise sent to tho rooms for sale. 47 NOTICE TO MARINERS. OKARITA BAR. ALL. tho Headlands between the Rivers Wanganui and Okarita should bo approached with great caution in fmo weather, as tho rocks apparently run a considerable distance out to seaward, Tho lagoon, commonly known as the Okarita, is situato about 30 miles to tho southward of tho Wanganui ; tho coast lino for 6 miles to .tho north is alow sandy bank, covered with coarso grass and flax ; whereas about half a' mile to tho, southward of tho entranco there is a high rocky headland (Hohuhamaru), from which a foul bottom apparently extends some distance in a north-westerly direction. Tho river Okarita omptics itself into tho eastern sido of this extonsivo lagoon, into which tho sea flows and ebbs with great volocity, fqrming a regular tidal harbor, almost entirely frco from any fresh. Tho present channel over tho bar runs N.W. and S.E., with a .depth of 14 foot, high water, spring tides ; the flood continues to run in for ono hour after it is> high water in tho ofllng. High watoi', full and change 11.20 ;'riso and fall about 9 feet. Vessels entering should keep woll over to tho south shoro until abreast tho north spit, when thoy ought to stand straight across for tho opposite sido to avoid tho current sweeping them upon a middle shinglo bank ; — this turn in tho channol is not moro than 200 foot in width at low wator, and renders tho Okarita unfit for Yo?,sqls,_ojr x j3. gri>at,longth to enter. • N A quarter of a mile from tho ontranco tho channol is divided, by an island, into two branches, tho northern ono being navigable for nearly two miles, with an avcrago depth of from four to six foot at low water; wlu'lo tho southern arm has tho same depth of water, to a distance of about tho oighth of a mile only. There is very bad holding ground ; so masters of vessels cannot trust their anchors and cablos, if moored in tho tideway. Fbedk. D. Gibson, Port Officer. Hokitika, Dccomber Bth, 1865. 257 HARBOR DEPARTMENT. NOTICE. — Thero will bo an anchor and chain, and liuo attached, on the South Spit, and boat and boat's crew in readiness at high water, every tide, to assist any vessel coming over the bar. When tho bar is only fit for steamers to toko, a rod flag will bo hoisted on the north flagstaff. When for sailing vessels, a red flag and ball. Masters of vessels are particularly requested to attend to tho small tidal flag on tho spit, as tho small tidal flag and tho large ting in ono takes them over the bar ,By order, THOMAS TURNBULL, 184 Harbor Master. NOTICE TO MARTNERS AT THE GREY. rpilE outer flagstaff has been disconX tinucd, and a skeleton beacon placed on tho beach, which in a lino with tho flagstaff, will cross tho bar in the deepest water. Attention is to be paid, as heretofore, to the movomonts of tho semaphore. The lower mast has been boarded to seaward, showing a flat surfaco of 17 in., painted whito to mako it moro conspicuous. Tho skoloton beacon is 15 ft* -high abovo the upper part of tho bank, and a flag-pole 6 ft. abovo that showing a rod flag. Tho signals in uso at the Grey aro tho same as those at tho port of Hokitika. Thomas Tubnbull, 200 Harbor Master for Wostland. T ANDING, PER KENNEDY— JJ 42 kogs now Wollington butter 20 casos and tiorccs York hams 10 casos bacon Spiced beofj in cloth. John Solomon and Co., 258 ' , *•• "' ilovoll street.