PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 25, 3 February 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

28m Janttakt, 1863. TIDES. TEi i s}\ water at Bluff Harbor at full nnd change, '-■i 0; inn .jo four to eight feet. High water at jSTov Kivi>r Heads ouo hour sooner; thore is, howtver, very littlo difference between the time of high \v£\ier at the head of th« Bluff and the jetty at ItvoiCiU-gill.

_ rNWAKDS. January 29— Midas, 800 tons, Dagget, f rO m M tiiboarae. Zj. Louguet and Co., agents. January 29 — Eucalyptus, barque, Rao, from Hobftrt Town, for New Kiver (windbouud). OUTWARDS. February 2 — M.S.S. City of TTobnrt, 600 tons, Darby, for Melbourne, with mails and four passengers. February 2— M.S.S. Alhainbra, 1050 tons, M'Lean, for Melbourne. IXWARDS COASTWISE. January 29 to 31— Nil. February 2— M.S.S. City of Ilobart, 500 tons, Darby, from Dunedin, with mails and ten passengers. February 2— M.S.S. Alhainbra, 1050 tons, M'Lean, from Dunedin, with twenty passengers. February 2 — Titania, 100 tons, Jarvey, from Invercargill. OUTWARDS COASTWISE. January 29 to 31 —Nil. February 2— Titania, 100 tons, Jarvey, for Otage. IMrOETS. Per Eucalyptus : 3 packages drapery, 1 case paint, 13 boxes tea, 4 boxes vestas, 297 baps sugar, 3 do white pepper, 10 boxes sago, 2 do nutmegs, 2 jj-tierces tobacco, 10 bags black pepper, 52,000 feet timber, 1400 feet boards, •30,000 shingles, 80,000 palings, 50 bullock poles, 63 pairs cart shafts, 50 pairs yokes, S cart naves, 1 chaise cart, 1 pack saddle, 322 pieces bacon and hams, S iegs lard, 12 casks butter, 10G bags 6alt, 30 tarpaulins, 60 cases jam, 99 bags potatoes, 2 chaff cutters,, 1 whale boat, 5000 bricks, 60 cases -ouiena, 61 eases fruit, 26 £-do, 2 cases "boots, 3 do eofiee., 25 chests tea, h packages woollens and cottons, 6 cases slops, Mailing and Whitton. EXPECTED IBKITAL9. •Ocean Bride, from Melbourne, daily. Blue Jacket from Melbourne, on or about the 4th inst. Bir 'George Pollock from London, about 25th inst, PROJECTED DSyARTUKES. Midas, for Melbourne, early. Eucalyptus, for N«w River, first fair wind. PASBEXOER. LIST. Per Eucalyptus; Cabin— Mr and Mrs M' Arthur and two children. Miss Chubbitt, Mr W. H. M'Arthur, Mrs Baker and six children, Mrs Rose, Mrs Dall and child, Miss Green, Mrs James, and five in the steerage.

The Midas Rrrived on the 29th ult., "after <i protracted run of 17 days from Geelong, which port tfaelcfton tbo 12ch ult.. having on board 8200 Bheep. who appear anything: but improved by their lonij stay on board ; 600 of them nre supposed to be dead tin yesterday (Sunday) eveuinsj. The Midas id still at the lower ant-borage, but will probably get up up the harbor and proceed to discbarge during to-day (Monday), otherwise we fear ■many more sheep wiil die. Captain Das^et reports having experienced adverse winds until the 2.5 th, principally from the E. and N.E.; on the 26th ■and 27?V> • *o--—" '»•>'■• r *•'-- un tho $sth tfiewiod hauled round to the westward, still ■blowing very strong-; shortened sail in the evening-, and cause to anchor at the Bluff next morning. The Eucalypti, from Hobart Town, with twenty-one passengers and general cargo, consigned to Messrs Mailing and Whit ton, came io anchor at the Blufi" on Thursday morning, to awnit a favorable opportunity to enter the New Kivcr* The E-ucalyptns left Ilobart Town on the 21st January, and -experienced strong N.E. winds until the afternoon of the 26th,. when a gule sprung aip from the N.W., wiiieli carried away the jiljThe wind then shifted to the westward ; «n ("he evening of the 28th came to anchor under Stewart's Island, 03 the strong westerly wind nnd heavy sea rendered it unsafe to take tho New Kir-ar feftr. JText morning (Thursday), finding the wind was still blowing strong from tho westward, weighed anchor and ran to the Bluff. The Alhambra left Dunedin at 6 p.m. on Bnffcurday, and arrived at the Bluff about 12 o'clock yesterday (Sunday). Landed twenty passengers •and personal effects, and left for Melbourne about 3 p.m. -Captain M'Lean reports having passed like brig Dart, from Hobart Town, and the Joshua Hat;s, frons Melbourne, as ho was leaving Port •Chalraars. The City of Hobart left Dunedin at the same time as the A'lhambra, but arrived at the Bluff •three hours tefore her, and landed and received the unaik and passengers without dropping anckor.

The barque India arrived late on Saturday ! afternoon from Lyttehon. She left on the 30th ultimo, an-d Captain King reports that the brig Lady Dennison, hence, arrived on the 27th ult., and on the 28th the brig Windhover sailed for Ho"bart Town. Since leaving .the coast of New Zealand, the India has met with a succession of heavy westerly weather. The India has been •chartered by S. Page, "Esq., to convey fifty horses to Dunedin, and she will leave for that port during the week. — Sobart Town Advertiser, Jan. 10th. The schooner Swordfisli arrived quite unexpectedly on Saturday last. She lay at Port Albert," loaded with rattle for New Zealand, several days, and on the 12th inst. got underweigh, but meeting with bad weather, Captain Roberts deemed it prudent to run to Hobart Town. Out of G-l head of cattle shipped, 11 have died. They had evidently been overdriven. The passengers by the Swordfish en route to Dunedin, were placod on board the brig Dart, which sailed for that port last evening. Capt. Roberts reports the Eclipse off Maria Island, and <he General Jessup off the Pillar, on Saturday. — Hobart Town Advertiser, Jan. 19.

DAILY TABLE. a.m. p.m. February 3— High water 12 55 ... 117 February 4~ do 140 ... 2 0 Jtebrttory 5— do 225 ... 245