PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 6 January 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

sth January, 1863. TIDES. High water at Bluff Knrbor at full and change, l"40; range feur to eight feet. High water at New Eiver Heads ono hour sqonev ; there is, how--evcr, very little difference between the time of high water at the head of the Bluff and the jetty at invercargill. DAILT TABLE. a.m." pan. January 6 — High water 130 ... 152 January 7— Uo 215 ... 237 Januarys— do 3 ... 322 INWARDS. January 2 to s—Kil.5 — Kil. OUTWARDS. •January 2 to s—Nil.5 — Nil. TN'VABDS COASTWISE. Januarys. — Apbrasia, p. a, 9i tons, Choyne, ■from Invereargill. January 3.— M.S.S Prince Alfred, 1000 tons, E. Wheeler, Esq., Commander, from Dunedin and Northern Ports, with mails, cargo and passengers, T. $. Tanton, agent. OUTAVATIDS COASTWISE. -January 2 to <i — Nil. January S— M.S.S. Prince Alfred, 1000 .tons, E. AVheeler, Esq., Commander, for Dunedin, and Northern Ports, with mails and passengers. K. G. Tanton, agent. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. M.S.S. Aldinga, from Melbourne, daily. Ji.S.S. Alhambra, from Duuedin, ior Melbourne, on Oth inst. "Sir Georgo Pollock, from London, daily. VESSELS IN PORT. Robert Passenger, from Melbourne Yurra, from Circular Head M.S.S. Prince Alfred, from Dunedin. .PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ttobert "Passenger, for Melbourne, en the 3rd ■inst. ■ Yarra, fov Launceston, on er about 4th inst. SIGNALED FROM SIGNAL STATION. M. S. S. Alhambra, from Melbourne for Dunedin. Joshua Page, do do Schooner in sight fposa the westward. "The Aldinga was not seen up to 12 at noon. PASSENGER LIST. Per Prince Alfred. Cabin — Mr and Mrs Kussel, Mr .T. "Watt, Mrs Colquhon and Son, Mr ' Casper, Mr Crisp, Mr M'Ejinnen, and It). in the second cabin. 'For Time and Truth from Melbourne — Mr and 3klrs Par ton. raroKTs. Per Prince Alfred from Dunedin, and Northern Ports — 1 liorse, 1 cart, 2 ke^s butter, 17 bags flour, JO baskets fish, 1 case biscuits, l parcel, Chalmers ; 1 parcel, Smalliield. Saved from Time and Truth — about o^O sheep, two boats, bunting, a few stores, arms, &c. and She personal e fleets of Ciiptnin Slater, officers, seamen and passengers. The Time and Truth is sinvk in a place where she will not be in the way of vessels in the lcust. The Inter-Colonial Company, which commenced the'jrwurk si>indinVrenlly,are doing their utmost to fetch uo their lee-way. The Airedale, Captain Kennedy, is again on the Infer- Provincial lin.v, west coast. The Lord Ashley, under the efficient, command of her late chief officer, Mr Itandall, is to he placed on th 3 east coast lino in March. QLVo new nnd powerful ships are about- to be added to the Company's licet. Tin- first has been purchased on the stocks, and will sailrfrom London in January. She is said to be a magnificent ship ; treasures 800 ton*, of 150 hur?e power, with a guaranteed speed of elwn knots. The -second ship for the Inter- Provincial trade is also a new vessel uf fioOtons; she is to leave England in February. There is thus every promise of the New Zealand trade being -Lvuducfcd in a lit .and o.oper manner. — JS'kv Zi.alaii.lcr, Dec. 20.