Godley Head (Banks’ Peninsula) Lighthouse.

Godley Head Lighthouse is situated on Godley (or Cachalot) Head, forming the North-Western entrance of Port Lyttelton, Banks’ Peninsula, in 43° 35' 32" South latitude, and 172° 49' 30" East longitude, as measured on the Admiralty Chart.

The light will be a Fixed Dioptric White Light, of the second order, is elevated about 450 feet above the level of the sea, and illuminating an arc of 200°.

It will be visible from seaward, in clear weather, about 29 nautical miles, and at lesser distances, according to the state of the atmosphere, from E. ½ S., round by the north to about N.N.W. ¼ W.

The tower will be thirty feet in height from base to vane.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent exhibition in March, 1865.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1864.

Tairoa’s Head Lighthouse.

Tairoa’s Head Lighthouse is situated on the headland bearing that name, on the East or seaward side of the entrance to Otago Harbour, in 45° 47' South latitude, and 170° 45' East longitude, as measured on the Admiralty Charts.

The Light will be a Fixed Dioptric Red Light of the third order, and will be seen to seaward from about E. ½ N., round by the North to about N.W.; and up the Harbour it will show from about W. ½ S. to about S.W. ½ W., the latter line indicating the turning-point of the Cross Channel.

The light will be elevated about 196 feet above the level of the sea, and will be visible in clear weather about twenty nautical miles, allowing fifteen feet for the height of the observer’s eye, and at lesser distances according to the state of the atmosphere.

The tower, which, together with the dwelling-houses, will be painted white, will be 89½ feet high from the ground to the top of the lantern.

This light is expected to be ready for permanent exhibition on and after the night of Monday, January 2, 1865.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1864.

Note.—All the bearings given in the above notice, are compass bearings from the Lighthouse.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1864.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Manukau Harbour.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Inner Fair Way Buoy in the South Channel of the Manukau has been removed, and a Cone Buoy, with a Barrel Beacon on top and painted red, has been placed in four fathoms, distant from the N.E. end of Treachery Shoal about one cable. This buoy should be left on the Starboard hand going in.

R. Johnson,
Warden.
Marine Board Office,
Auckland, 13th December, 1864.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 8th December, 1864.

THE following Notice to Mariners, issued by the Government of Victoria, is re-published for general information.

J. L. C. Richardson.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Lightning Rocks, Port Phillip Heads.

In consequence of the frequent statements that have appeared in the public papers, that the rocks have been removed: Notice is hereby given that they still remain. The least water found on the shoalest head is eighteen (18) feet at low water.

The clearing marks for avoiding these dangers are as follow:

Day Marks.

The Obelisk on Shortland’s Bluff in line with East tangent of High Light, N. 32° E., clears them to the Westward.

Point Lonsdale Flagstaff, open on either side of Point Lonsdale Telegraph House (white with a slate roof), clears them to the Northward and Southward.

Night Marks.

The Light on Point Lonsdale showing green about N.W. by N. leads South of them. The same light showing red from W.N.W. to W. by N. leads North of them.