COAST OF MAURITIUS

The Lighthouse (as well as the adjacent buildings) is white; its ground line is 39 feet above the mean sea level, and it forms a most conspicuous object, which cannot possibly be mistaken.

4. The Lighthouse serves as a guide to vessels passing Grand Port by day or by night.

5. The apparatus is a Dioptric of the First Order, showing a fixed white light from sunset to sunrise, visible in every direction from seaward, but dark on the land side. The light (focal plane) is 108½ feet above the mean sea level (the rise of the tide being 3 feet), and in clear weather can be seen at a distance of 16 nautical miles from the deck of a vessel 12 feet above the water.

6. There is a Government pilot in Mahebourg, who will in a few months be stationed at the Lighthouse, and who will board ships bound to Mahebourg on their making the usual signal.

7. Vessels bound to Mahebourg may approach the Light on any bearing from N. by E. to W. by S.; when about 2 miles from it they should heave to, with the head off shore, until the pilot comes alongside.

8. Should it be desired to get into shelter as soon as possible, approach the Light under easy sail till within about ¾ of a mile, in order to avoid a shoal patch of 6 fathoms off Pointe Laverdie, which is the extreme point of the Coral Reef bounding the South side of the entrance of Grand Port; steer so as to round Ile-de-Passe at the distance of ½ a mile, as a Spit runs out from its South side for about a cable’s length; then haul to the Northward, and anchor in 18 to 20 fathoms: it is, however, not recommended to attempt the foregoing without a pilot, except in cases of extreme necessity.

9. A vessel coming from the Southward, and bound to Port Louis, round the North end of the island of Mauritius, the usual track, should, after sighting Grand Port Light, steer so as to pass it at a distance of about 4 miles; when, at that distance, the Light bears W. by S., a N. N. E. ½ E. course for 9 miles will, if the weather be clear, bring a vessel in sight of Flat Island Revolving Light, bearing about N. by W. ½ W.; the course can then be shaped as required.

10. A vessel coming from the Northward, having Flat Island Light on a bearing of N. N. W., must be careful, after sighting Grand Port Light, not to bring it, when at less than eight miles distance, on a more Southerly bearing than S. W. by W. ½ W., or she will be too near the Coast Reef to the Northward of that Light.

11. The Coast Reef to the Eastward of and bounding Grand Port has a Bank of irregular soundings extending some distance to seaward; the lead, if carefully attended to, will prove a tolerable guide in very thick weather.

12. The bearings in the foregoing instructions are all Magnetic, and will carry a ship at least 3 miles from the Coast Reef.

13. No Vessel bound into Grand Port ought to approach it at night: she should heave to well to the Southward of the Light, as the drift being to the Northward, she might find herself to Leeward in the morning, and lose much time in working up.

W. L. Morrison,
Captain Royal Engineers,
Surveyor-General.

Surveyor-General’s Office,
3rd November, 1863.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

Under and in pursuance of the powers vested in the Superintendent in that behalf, I hereby notify for public information that all those pieces or parcels of land enumerated in the schedule hereunder written will be offered for sale, at Brown’s Mill, Mahurangi, at 12 o’clock noon on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, as Special Settlement Land.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, in the said Province, this twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Robert Graham,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

SPECIAL SETTLEMENT LAND.

Parish of Hoteo, County of Marsden.