PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 4 August 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

August 3ri>, 1803. TIDES. High water at Bluff Harbor at full and change 140; range four to eight feet. High water 'at New River ITeails <>ne hour sooner; thero is, however, very little difference- between tlio time of high water at the head of the Bluff and the jetty at Invercargill. DAILY TABLK. a.m. p.m. Aug. 4— High water 3.33 ... 3.55 Aug. 5— do 4.18 ... 4.40 Aug. 6— do 5. 3 ... 6.25 INWARDS. July 30 to Aug. 3— Nil. OUTWARDS. July 31— Sea Breeze, 500 tons, Calder, for Launceston. INWARDS COASTWISE. July 31.— Aphrasia, p.s., 97 tons, Cbeyno, from Invercargill. Aug. I— William Miskin, s.s., 100 tons, WilsoD, from Dunedin. OUTWARDS COjVSTWISE. Aug. I—Aphrasia,1 — Aphrasia, s.s., 97 tons, Cheyno, for Invercargill. Aug. 3— William Miskin, s.b., 100 tons, Wilson, for Dunedin. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. - Airedale, s.s., from the northern ports, on the ,4th inst. I New Great Britain, from London, daily. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Airedale, s.s., for the northern ports, at 3 p.m. on oth hist. A fine new barque, the Prospector, with freight from the ports of Leith and Inverkcithing, was to be be despatched early thia month for Southland ' and Otago. She is advertised as the property of 1 the Forth and New Zealand Shipping Company, a new and well-connected company, whoso intention it is to despatch to Otago and the adjoining Province a succession of suitable vessels with freight derived from the east-coast ports of Southland, from which there has as yet been little direct communication. — Daily Times, July 27. The apparatus for the new lighthouse at the Heads having arrived by the Wave Queen, the ■ Provincial Engineer, with Captains Robertson and Thomson, visited the Heads on Friday, for the purpose of selecting a site and making arrangements for the early erection of the building. — Ibid. The ship Dona Anita, which last i year made a i passage to Otago, has arrived at Lyttelton from London, 105 days out. — Ibid. The Lyttelton Times reports that the barque Juno, in taking the bar struck the rocks, and stove a hole in her bottom. The master at once at 7 tempted to take her back, but she sunk close inside the bar. Sbo was laden with a lull cargo of wheat. New Steamer ro.a the Tasmania.** Trade. < — Hie new steamer City of Launceston, built and engincd by Messrs. Blackwood and; Gordon, Port Glasgow, for the L.^and M. S. N> Company of Tasmania,' and intended lor the colonial trade in / the. Australian colonics^ underwent ncr trial trip on Wednesday." She left Port Glasgow with a select party on board, and • proceeded to run the lights from, the Cloch to'the Cnmbrays (fifteen ' -and throe-quarter statute miles), 'which was accomplished, ia'^sixty.-e'fght minute?. Afterwards she proceeded through .the^Kyles of Bute, and gave a/good augur*/ bf her future good; sitting qualities, 'rln tlie course. of the afternoon the party sat down to dinner— Captain George Gilm^re, the agent for the .company, -in the chair. After dinner; ohe ' usualloyal and patriotic toasts hnving been drunk " ./and happily responded to," Mr Thomas Whito, of the Cork and Water ford Steam Shipping Company*,proposed ''Btiecees'to the City of Launces- - r ton.;" after, which C lptain Gil more proposed the ' health of the builders, Messrs. Blackwood and , .., ,G»rdon,. and remarked iri dojng so that he intendied'it mors than 'a mere compliment. Acting as agent 1 for' ftie proprietors of the vessel, who reside in .Australia,, which :'. precluded his having any available communication with; them, he felt . the responsibility pf providing a steamship in , every way suitable for ,their business; for he was aware that however general the! wording of a . speciGcajion as to the details required, and however stringent the clauses for tbe proper completion of the work, yet if therfe was no desire on the

$IffibffilM\mMeik6!.!AiKbMs%fcfct **v» tn l>«e--slity,»H)d «# *oufß Bu&elaMo was glad HtobeaTbleSfefstateljtha'vihe haa-^fee-a met in the pfest ofSisgiri^byMiessrsTSla^wboa jand Gordon, landjbejlpjt them, oh ownejr%»;«g^wel^a§ f S«^self, for he wa* satisfiedlSat they ha^ndbfoiily supplied a good ship, but one every way suited for tbe trade she was intended for. Captain Gilmore alluded to the Jn^Mmg^em^andJy^ -lian colonies^ wbich" would^-form a T-very-ihipbrtant branch of business with Glasgow, and remarked that although there were many eminent shipbuilders on the Clyde, he trusted Messrs. Blackwood and- Gordon would-get-tho -share of-patron-'age' they-^BO- justly and v honestly 1 deserved: Mr Blackwood repli^ctl ,; Amongst the other toasts, werei ""The healtli-bf -Captain Robson,*'' who is totake the ship out. and " H. B. Robson ."inspecting '. .engineer^of. )he Board of Trade. . , The vessel returned in* the, evening 'to Port -Glasgow, every one. satisfied with'' her 'performances, and all having spent a pleasant. day. — North British Mail -May'S*. • •'-' ' ' ! ' ■'■'■'"'' •' ; V