PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 85, 28 August 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Adgcsx 27th, lbt>3. TIPKS. High water at Bluff Hurbor at full nnd change 1*40; range four to eight feet. High water at New River Heads one hour sooner; there is, however, very little difference between the time of high ■ water at the Load of the Bluff aud the jetty ut Invcrcargill. DIILT TABLtf. a.m. p.m. Aug. 28— High water 12.15 ... 12 35 Aug. 29— do 1. 0 ... 1.20 INWARDS. August 25— Nil August 26— Edina, e-s. 500 tons, Rolls, from Dunedin. OCTWAKDS. Au ust 25— Nil. August 26 — Edina, s.s. 500 tons, Polls, for Melbourne, with 15 passengers and Australian mails. G. P. H. G.illop, agent. j IJ'WABPS COASTWISE. Aueust 25 — Aubrasia, p.s. 97 tons, Cheyne, from Invercaririll, with sundries. AugusD 25— Titania, s.s. 100 tons, Jarvey, from Invercargill. August 26 — Mary Tbonvson, schooner, 50 tons, O'Connell, from Invercargill. August 26— William Miskin, s.s. 100 tons, Wilson, from Invereargill, to repair feeder. I OUTWARDS COASTWISE. August 25— Heather Bell, Salvador, for InvercargilJ. August 25 — Titania, s.s. Jarvey, foi! Dunedin. August 26— Aphrasia, p.s. Cheyne, for Invercargill. with 114 passengers and luggage, ex New Great Britain. Ausust 26 — Willinm Miskin, s.s. Wilson, for Duuedin. VESSELS IIT POET. New Great Britain, from London. •Colleen Bawn,from Itivorton. Three S stera, from Riv«»rfr>n. Mary Thompson, from Invercnrgill. EXPECTED AEEIVALS. ' S.S. Alhambra, on or about 30th instant, for Mclboure. M.S.S. Gothenburg, from Melbourne daily: Ship Helenslee, Brown, from Glasgow, early. «> The ship Frances Uenty, arrived in tbe forenoon With a freight of stock from Twofold Bay, from •which port she sailed on the Bth inst. Like the Schah Jehan, which was the last sailing ship from Twofold Bay, she experienced very heavy weather with the same unfortuate consequences to her stock. Between the 12th and 15th she was hove to for fifty hours during a very heavy gale from S. and S. E., in lat. 42 20 and long. 161 .30 E. Had subsequently threo days calms, and before the termination of the passage had lost upwards of ' seventy head. Discharges at Port Chalmers. When the, Frances Henty sailed from Twofold Bay, the "Marion bad not commenced to Joad. — Otaao Daily Times, 25th August, The Captain of the ship Antagonist had arrived at Singapore, and reported tbe total loss of his ship in Torres Straits, while on a voyage from Sydney to Calcutta, with horses. — Age, Aug. 13. By the ship Melbourne, which arrived from Leith gome weeks since, a valuable telescope has been received by Captain Beveridge (now of tbe steamer Enterprise; bound for Otago, New Zealand), and which bears thefollewing inscription : — "Presented by the Board of Trade to Mr William Beveridge, ' ' mate of the late ship Suphire, of Liverpool, in testimony of the courage and .determination displayed by him in commanding and navigating ! the water-logged torque Marina, which he and ten 'other survivors from the Saphire had found abandoned at sea in^Nov., 1859, after the wreck of their own vessel, and in which he succeeded in reaching Port Curtis, thus .contributing to save the lives of those under his command." Ths deepatch from liis Grace the Duke oi Newcastle to

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