THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 151

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, April 5th, 1862.

THE following Sailing Directions for the
Eastern Entrance into Western Port and
for the Anchorages off Cape Wollamai and the
east end of Philip Island, Victoria, are pub-
lished for general information.

WILLIAM Fox.

EASTERN ENTRANCE INTO
WESTERN PORT.

The eastern passage into Western Port has
recently been surveyed, and its hidden dangers
and prominent points marked by beacons and
buoys.

Vessels in the neighbourhood desirous of
entering Western Port, or seeking shelter and
unable to fetch the western entrance, need not
loose ground by running back round Wilson's
Promontory, but in any weather, if the S.E.
point of Cape Wollamai can be seen, may with
confidence steer for the eastern passage, where
good anchorage, easy of access, sheltered from
all winds, will be found for vessels drawing
fourteen (14) feet.

Vessels of larger tonnage and heavier draught,
up to eighteen (18) feet, can lie in the deep
water anchorage, to the S.E. of Black Reef,
sheltered from all winds except S.E. gales.
Vessels drawing twelve (12) feet can go through
the passage into Western Port at high water.

DESCRIPTION OF THE WEST SIDE OF THE
PASSAGE.

Cape Wollamai.
The S. E. end of Philip Island lies E.
1 S. twenty-two miles from Cape Schanck,
is a high steep wedge-shaped granite head-
land, sloping towards the N. W., of a red
color, and is the highest land near the coast.

A Rocky Ledge
Awash, lies about a cable's length off the
pitch of the cape, upon which the sea breaks
heavily in bad weather.

A Small Sunken Rock,
Which only shows awash at low water, lies
about a cable's length and a half to the north-
ward of the S.E. part of the cape, and half a
cable's length off shore.

Red Point
Is the northernmost part of the western
head of the entrance, is about fifty feet
high, and composed of bare red granite boulders
with a small patch of trees on the rising ground
to the westward of it, and may be known by a
squire openframed wooden beacon, colored
black, standing forty (40) feet from the water's
edge. About two cables' length to the south-
ward of the black beacon, an isolated square
block of granite, colored white, juts out from
the other rocks close to the water's edge.

Black Reef.
This reef divides the outer from the
inner anchorage, and runs out N. by E. a
cable's length from the N. W. end of the
sandy bight inside of Red Point. About twenty
fathoms N. by W. from the end of the reef
lies a rocky patch thirty (30) feet in diameter,
with three feet over it and twelve feet between
it and the reef. A pillar beacon, surmounted
by a black ball, is placed on the middle of the
patch, with the following bearings:--
Red Point, S.E. E. 5 cables' length.
Sandy Peak, S.W. by W. W.

Sandy Peak
Is the highest and most southerly of the
sand hills on the east end of Philip Island.
The Peak is steep, weil defined, and marked
by a cross beacon on the top, and is a good
mark for the anchorage.

Woody Point.
The north-eastern end of Philip Island is
low, and covered with trees. It forms the
western side of the inner heads, and bears N.
W. two miles and one-tenth from Red Point.

Middle Rocks
Are two isolated flat rocks; the
easternmost is the largest, being about one
hundred and twenty feet long and thirty feet
broad, and marked by a pillar beacon and black
ball. These rocks cover at half tide, and lie
about a quarter of a cable's length east from
Woody Point, with five fathoms close alongside
of the easternmost.

An extensive mud flat, which partly dries at
low water, stretches out from Woody Point
into the passage in a south and south-west
direction, and into Western Port, N.N.E.,
about a mile, trending away in a W.N.W.
direction upwards of four miles. The southern
end is marked by a pillar beacon and black
ball, with the following bearings:--
Davis Point, E N.
Sandy Peak, S. by W. W.

The south-east and north ends inside of
Western Port are marked by two black buoys,
and the eastern edge of the flat by three black
cross beacons. The following are the bearings
of the buoys:--
East buoy, in seven
feet
North buoy, in ten
feet
} White house on Church
Hill Island, W. by N.
Ν.
Hut on Woody Point,
S.W. W.
White house on Church
Hill Island, W. by S.
Hut on Woody Point,
S.W. by S. S.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST SIDE OF THE
PASSAGE.

Griffith Point.
The S. W. part of the mainland is a
sandstone bluff, about seventy (70) feet
high, and bare of trees for some distance