Notice to Mariners.
Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. The following Notice to Mariners, announc ipg the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Na pier, prepared from information received from tjie Provincial Engineer, is published for ge information. Henry Sewell. POET AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Bod. Pn and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fined Red .and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from sea card :- ' Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.f E. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red From S.W. by to S.W.|S. ■The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nauti jcal miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the obser ver's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile on each side of the rock. Vessels approach ing from the northward should keep in the white light. Masters of vessels coming from the southward will find this light no guide for them, and must use all pre cautions as heretofore to aypid the rpcky patch called £he Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch ex pends at least one cable to the southward of the black buoy which is moored ofF the northein edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.
New Zealand Telegraph Guide.
