PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 28, 13 February 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

12th Fkbkuakt, ISC3. TIDES. High water at Bluff TTarbor nt full and change. l'4-O; range four to ri^ht f e et. High water at Now Eiver Heads one hour aooner; there is, however, very little difference be! ween the time of high water fu tho head of the Bluff and the jetty 'at luveivargill. DAILY TABLE.

INWARDS. February 9 to 11 — Nil. February 12 — M.S.S. Alaiuga.SOO tons, Stewart, from Melbourne, with Australian moils iioid sixty passengers. orr\VAUD3. February 9 to I'2— Nil. INWARDS COASTWISE. February p — Nil. February 10— Sussex, from Dunediu fur luvcr- j cargill, with general cargo and passengers. OUTWARDS COASTWISE, February 11 — Nil. February 12— M.S.S. Aldinra, 500 tons Stewart for Otflgo. ' EXPECTT.D ARRIVALS. Blue Jacket from Melbourne, this day, Thursdttv. M.S.S. Alhambra, from Melbourne, with English mails, on the loth. 3-f.S.S. City of Hobart, from Melbourne, with .English maib, on th-* 17th. Sir George Pollock from London, on or about the 20th inst. William Eyre, from Glasgow, at au early date. PROJKCTED DErARTCKK3. Midn?:, for Melbourne, p.irlv. Oaan Bride, for Otneo, early. The Black B.a'l ship City of Mei!>ourr,e sailed from Muli-ouruo for Ottigo'on the 6lh with 900 psjsentrers. On "\\ pdwsday myrnine. about one o'clock, four •of the ere.v of the Ocean Bride deserted in one of the nhip's boats which \va? hoisted aft. Captain Cule heard Ust boat, touch the water, and at once rushed on deck and observed the boat about twenty yards j from the ship ; he ordered the men to return "or he j would shoot t.'nem, but they paid no attention. It j <vfls 'blowing very heavy at the time, and a strong j ebb tide wai running. " There is reason to ffiir | that the men have been carried out to sea: when 'ust seer, they weiv close to the rip, and did not 'appear to know where they were- (joiner. Tho Aldin^.-i left Mdb'-in-ne on the 7th, nnd had ft EtifFbrcezo from the S.W. the whole way clown, iirrivinij at the Bluff at i» a. sa. on the V2th. Two or three o f the steerage passengers having been here before, upwards of fifty other?, principally j f'i^Efevs, wore persuaded by thorn to land at the i IV.ufF. as Wins the cheapest ami quickest route to the dicing*. V.tv nonv of the diggers complain bilterlv that it is utterly impossible to get any infiirmr.ii'in at Melbourne respecting vSout.hl.-iriri, | although anxious inquiries are made on ail sides. I Many others would have landed this time, but appeared quite confused by the contradictory accounts they hear of this place. Cnptaiti Stewart i is willing to lu-ing passengers (o the i!luQ", 2ind will . anc'uor there t-.< land passengers. The <lav before the Aldinga arrived at the Bluff n passenger r.mne.l Gp'ig, imniediiiU-Iv after lunch, Feized a knit'e and attempted to cut his tin-oat; finding the first was not very sharp lie seized a second, but wn=. stepped before lie could u<e it : hn i now lies in a very precarious state. A passenger | named Croker s'iddenlv expired. j Tlio Blue Jacket sailed on the Oth, nnd brings j down five cabin passengers, o'JOU t-hec-p, and ; thirty. five packages of furniture. j Mrr.DF.R of British Seamen. —In September, ISoD, the Kitty, of Newcastle, was lost in Hudson's Strait-?, by being in'pped in the ice. Five of her crew, who pvt into a small boat, lift or emlurinsr p;ient sufferinz by exposure to the cold, succeeded in reaching a Moravian missionary station, where they were hospitably entertained, and three of them sent to their '• homes in England next summer. But of the fate of tlie mister of this vessel, Mr Elli^, and the remainder of the crew who left, the ship in a lon£ bont, nothing had been heard until the arrival of the vessels from the Hudson's Bay stations this autum", when the sad intelligence ha<; been brought that the eleven poor fellows fell into the liruuls of unfriendly Esquimaux, and were murdered for t lie s-ike of their blankets. The missionaries at Okak, writing to tli* widow of the master of the vessel in August last, says : — "lt is with grief, madam, we must inform you that it is, alas, only too true that the long boat, with her master and crew, arrived at Ungava Bay, but that none of the men survive. Last winter, Esquimaux from Ungava Bay visited our northernmost settlement. Hebron, who related thit in the winter of 1S ; )9-6O, several Europeans in a boat landed at the island called Akpatok, in Uugava Bay. They lived with the Esquimaux until about January, upon what the latter could provide for them ; but then, most likely, when their provisions became short, the Esquimaux attacked them when they were asleep find killed them, stabbing them with their knives. There is no doubt of these realiv being the men from the Kitty, because the Esquimaux knew there had been another boat with five men belonging to them, whom they deemed lost. They said one man of the murdered company had very frost-bitten feet, and him the Esquimaux would not kill by stabbing, but showed him a kind of heathen mercy, as they put him into the open air until he was dead by severe cold." It seems that these unfortunate men had been murdered for the sake of the blankets they had with them. It would appear that, one of the Esquimaux wanted to save the three Europeans who lodged with him, but they met the same fate as their companions. The tribe who have committed this murder rlo not appear to have been brought into contact with the European missions ; and the friendly tribe who brought the information into Hebron, further informed the Moravian missionaries at that place that a little further north from Ungava Bay a whole crew, cons'sting in all of about 40 men, were enticed on shore, and then killed by the Esquimaux. — M. M. Register. The Xationai. Company for Boat Bun/r>ING- BY MACHINERY. — The first annual meeting of this company was held on Monday, at the premises, East Greenwich, Colonel Sykes, M.P. the chairman of the company presiding. The balance sheet showed that the total receipts of tho company were £77.931 2s 4d ; and the balance in hand tSI-51 16s 4d. The chairman, in movng the adoption of the report, said the machinery would have been in motion that day but for an accident of a trivial character which had happened to the engine. He and his brother directors had great confidence in the soundness of the undertaking, which was of the utmost importance to all connected with maritime nfl'airF. He" fully expected that the machini iy would be in full operation in about three wcplvs. Tl.e patent extended not only to the

TTn'ted Kinn-rinm, but to the colonies. The irtntion wiis norrpe-1 to nnnnimoiTsU' ; and on the •mnfi.mi of \Ti- Tlillnn, sernndpd by Gnnpial q^n^pl,^ ATr P Ornhnm and Mr 0. Wilhnm wpre re-anniinfpd director":. Mr P. IV N»" V"-.stnr. nn'l Rnll nf the firm of Quiltnr nnd R-iU, n-pre plprcfed ilircelnrs. The lisinl rnm"linT"TiMrv vitrs nf thinks to flip rhnirmm nnrl ii;^»^inr=!. p^ndiulpd the proceedings. — Hfitr/wU's V.-vfi«'»,\ A T nv. 1. Advices from th? northern pnrt of this island rnnr-rf srent d^strnfi'ion of nrnr>p-itv by a i"vorc tvn'io"n on thr> coasts of thP provinces of Yl<^n« nrid fncravon on fhe -sth nnd filh i««ls. Th" •\jn"ri<-nn shin Nabob, of TWfnti. was totnllv \nit nerir the port of Apnrri (Cnsaynn). Fifteen nprsoi-iq wprp snved. nmnni whom are tho rnptnin, first officer, enrpenter. and steward ; th* re c t. of th- n crpw were drowned. The Spanish b^mnPß Armi*tad and M.urielH*. rmd bries Tv>thclli nnd Snn Jose, br>nnd to Chini, wer.-^ lost, with their cargoes, and much cl.in->n<;p wf.s done to coasting crafts. — Russell and Sturges' Manilla Circular, Nov. 22.

n.iri. 1 p.m. February 13— High water 525 ... 847 February 14 — do 910 „. 932 February 15— do 9 s"> ... ]0 17 February 16— do 10-10 ... 11 2