ENTRANCE TO THE PORT.
To the Editor of the Evauwj Star. Sirt, —Reports having been circulated in certain quarters that vessels of heavy draughts of water could not enter our harbor with safety—and such reports been calculated to damage the name of the Port, and, in fact, the Province generally. I wish through your columns to state what came under my own observation as to the state of the entr nice to the harbor. On Saturday last the barque Midas, Capt. Watson, from Newcastle, drawing nineteen feet seven i dies, was towed by the st.'am tug Geelong, safely over the bar before high water, without a pilot on board (the Captain been exempt) and at S o’clock p.m. Now Sir, I think if an exempt Captain can bring in a vessel of the above draught on a neap* tide iu the dark, and with a heavy south-east swell on, a pilot could with safety bring in vessels of a much heavier draught; and these facts should lie made public, as the Port has suffered, and will continue to suffer unless the report’s circulated are publicly contradicted. I am, &c., Charles Clark.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2345, 7 October 1870, Page 2
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191ENTRANCE TO THE PORT. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2345, 7 October 1870, Page 2
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