above the sea. The centre of the Light is
21 ft. 6 in. above the sand, making a total
of 179 ft. above the sea.

The following Magnetic Bearings are
taken from the Lighthouse:

Cape Howe . . . . N. 32° E.
Ram Head . . . . S.W.
Variation of Compass. 11° E.

The Light is a fixed White Light of the
first class, consisting of 24 Catoptric Lamps
in two ranges, illuminating the whole hori-
zon.

The Light is eclipsed by a small range of
sand-hills from S. 15° E. to S. 40° W. (in all
19 degrees), to a distance averaging about
two miles out to sea.

It is estimated that the Light can be
seen 20 miles distant in clear weather.

Harbour Master’s Office,
Auckland, March 20th, 1854.

A SUNKEN ROCK, half-a-mile N. W. by
N. of Takapuna Head, which is the first
point of land outside the North head.

This Rock has one foot water on it at low
water spring tides, and three fathoms close
to on every side, and from which the fol-
lowing magnetic bearings are taken:
— Flag
Staff, S. 30° E.; extreme of North head, S.
39° E.; Buoy on Rough Rock, S. 65° E.,
and Peak of Rangitoto, N. 51° E. A cask
buoy, painted black, has been placed on the
northern side of it.

I. J. BUICKS,
Harbour Master.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, April 27th, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased
to direct that the names of the undermen-
tioned gentlemen should be added to the
Commission of the Peace for the Province
of Canterbury:

Sir Thomas Tancred, Bart.,
Charles Robert Blakiston, Esq.
John Hall, Esq.

By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR KAWHIA
HARBOUR.

On coming from seaward the Harbour of
Kawhia may be known by the distant hills
rising in notched peaks; (called Pirongia,) and also by the high wooded headland to
the northward (Woody Head).

Steer for Pirongia peaks until Albatross
point shuts in the land to the southward;
you will then have passed Gannet Island
(which is small, and about 70 feet high,
and lies N. W. 1 W. 11 miles from Albat-
ross point, and W. by N. ½ N. 13 miles
from Kawhia South Head) and you will see
the break of the land forming the entrance
to Kawhia Harbour.

The South Head is cliffy, having a very
conspicuous yellow patch on it; and the
North Head is a low sandy point (the gradual
declension of the sand hills, which
stretch between this harbour and Aotea).

Get the South Head to bear E.S.E., and
steer for it until the leading mark inside
becomes visible; it is an arched cliff, red-
dish, and dotted with trees. Keep this a
little open of the outer extreme of the South
Head, bearing E. by S. ½ S. and cross the
bar, which is one mile from the Heads, gra-
dually hauling towards the North Head; as
the channel over the bar is close to the
south spit, and after having run about three
cables, you will be in about 3½ fathoms,
when you may steer for between the Heads,
and on that line E. by S. until the rocks off
the inner and outer South Heads are in line,
when steer up the left channel, which is two
cables broad, having from 4 to 6 fathoms in
it towards Beachy Point (which is 1½
miles within the North Head), and after
rounding it, a vessel may anchor off the
Native Church, about a cable’s length from
shore, in from 4 to 5 fathoms low water,
(14 feet in the channel over the south bar
at low water Spring Tides).

The marks for crossing the North Chan-
nel over the Bar are—Mr. Joseph’s house
on Ohaua Point, just open of the rock off
the South Head, bearing S. 48 E.; water on
bar at low water Springs 11 feet. There is
more shoal water crossing this bar than the
southern one, and with a westerly wind, a
heavy beam sea. Steer on the leading
marks until into deep water, 5 fathoms, and
then for the entrance, when the same direc-
tions are good which were previously
given.

The tide sets out over the South Spit
with a slight inclination, and the flood the
contrary.

Strength of tide between the Heads from
4 to 6 knots.

High water, full and change, on bar, 9h.
30m.

Rise at Springs, 12 feet.

Latitude South Head, 38d. 4m. 6s. S.
Longitude dito 174d. 46m. 30s. E.

SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR WHAINGAROA
HARBOUR.

Woody Head, or Karaka Peak, is a high
conical hill, 2000 feet high, and an excellent
mark for Whaingaroa. The harbour is to
the northward of the hill, in a bight formed