✨ Tenders and Mariners Notice
(57)
TENDERS will be received until MONDAY,
the 23rd Instant, for the Hire of a Whale Boat,
or other Description of Light Boat, for the
service of the Military.
The Tenders will state the rate per month.
Further particulars may be obtained by applying
at the Mess House.
G. D. LARDNER,
Dep. Ass. Com. General.
Auckland, 17th August, 1841.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to direct that the following Bear-
ings of a Reef off Poverty Bay, furnished by
Captain Wing, of the brigantine "Deborah," be
published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
Colonial Secretary.
From
the
centre
of the
Reef.
Table Cape bears S. S. W.
Young Nick's Head S. W. by W. W.
Tuahine bears W. S.
Gable Foreland bears N. by W.
Extreme northern land
about 3 miles South of
Sporing's Hand
either
N.E.or
W. W.
doubt-
ful.
These Bearings (magnetic) were taken in a
boat, and therefore can only be considered as an
approximation to the truth.
The Reef runs about North and South, and is
from two to three miles in length, but narrow,
having a short elbow at the South end turning
towards Young Nick's Head. The soundings
(taken about high water) vary irregularly from
three to seven fathoms, with patches of long kelp.
The sea breaks on it only in bad weather, and
most so when the wind is from the Northward
to the Eastward. I have passed very close to it
with a strong wind from the S. E., and a very
high sea, without observing any appearance of
breakers; consequently, a vessel may pass close
to the Reef a number of times without its being
seen.
The soundings along the Reef in-shore, were
found to vary very regularly from fifteen to
twenty-five fathoms, between the distances of
about three quarters of a mile, and one mile and
a quarter respectively.
The brig "Martha," struck on this Reef in
June, 1834, and lost part of her false keel.
N. B. High water at Poverty Bay on the full
and change of the moon, at 6 a.m., with a rise
of six feet at spring, and of five feet at neap tides.
Printed and Published by JOHN MOORE, for the
Trustees of the Auckland Newspaper, and
General Printing Company, Wednesday,
August 18, 1841.
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🛡️ Tender for Hire of Light Boat for Military Service
🛡️ Defence & Military17 August 1841
Tender, Boat hire, Military service, Auckland
- G. D. LARDNER, Dep. Ass. Com. General
🚂 Notice to Mariners: Reef Bearings off Poverty Bay
🚂 Transport & Communications18 August 1841
Mariners notice, Reef, Poverty Bay, Bearings, Soundings, Tides
- Wing (Captain), Furnished reef bearings
- HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR
- WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND, Colonial Secretary