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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1858.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 23rd July, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
WALTER HARSANT, Esq., Resident Magis-
trate,
to be Coroner at Raglan.
E. W. STAFFORD.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 23rd July, 1858.
THE following Notice, respecting the Sunken
Reef off Apollo Bay, Victoria, describing
certain Beacons which have been erected to
mark the position of the reef in question, is
published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.
- Commanders of vessels navigating between
Cape Otway and Port Phillip Heads, are hereby
informed that Four Pillar Beacons, each sur-
mounted with a Ball, have been erected on the
coast, to mark the position of a sunken danger
now known as Henty's Reef, lying eleven miles
north 54' 30" east from Cape Otway Light-
house, and about two miles south 40' 30" east
from Cape Bunbury, which forms the south-east
point of Apollo Bay. This reef has not more
than eighteen feet of water over it, is steep too,
having ten fathoms all round within a cable's
length of its shoalest part, and as the sea only
breaks on the reef occasionally in bad weather,
vessels must give it a good berth in passing.
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The above mentioned beacons are erected
two on Point Hayley, situated about nine miles
north-east from Cape Otway, and two on Cape
Bunbury, situated about eleven miles north-east
from Cape Otway. -
The Point Hayley beacons are painted,
the inshore one white, the seaward one black;
they are six hundred feet apart, and bear from
each other east a quarter north, and west a
quarter south. -
The Cape Bunbury Beacons are painted,
the inshore one white, the seaward one red;
they are six hundred feet apart, and bear from
each other south-east half south, and north-
west half north. -
The position of the reef is marked by the
intersection of two lines, the one drawn through
the beacons on Point Hayley, the other through
the beacons on Cape Bunbury. -
Vessels bound to the north-east must keep
the black beacon on Point Hayley well open to
the northward of the white one until the white
beacon on Cape Bunbury opens well out to the
north-east of the red beacon. -
Vessels bound to the south-west must
keep the red beacon on Cape Bunbury well
open to the southward of the white one until the
white beacon on Point Hayley opens out well
to the south-west of the black beacon. -
Commanders of vessels can have the position
of this reef marked on their charts at the office
of Ports and Harbors, Williamstown.
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🏛️ Appointment of Resident Magistrate as Coroner at Raglan
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration23 July 1858
Appointment, Coroner, Resident Magistrate, Raglan
- Walter Harsant (Esquire), Appointed Coroner at Raglan
- E. W. Stafford
🏛️ Notice regarding beacons marking Henty's Reef off Apollo Bay, Victoria
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration23 July 1858
Mariners, Beacons, Henty's Reef, Apollo Bay, Victoria, Navigation warning
- E. W. Stafford