PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 86, 1 September 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Aogcst 31st, 18G3. TIDES. High water at Bluff llarbor at full and change l*iO; range four to eight feet. High water at Hew River Reads ono hour sooner; there is, how- . ever, very little differenco between the time of high water at tho head of tho Bluff and the jetty at InvercargiU. DAIXY TABLE. a.m. P-Ti. Sept. I— High water 335 ... 3.15 Sept. 2— do 4.20 ... 4. () Sept. 3 — do 5. 5 ... 4.45 INWABDS. August 29 to 31— Nil OUTWAHDS. August 29 fo 31— Nil. INWARDS COASTWISE. August 27— Aphrasia, p.s. 97 tons, Cheyne, from Invrccargill. August 29 — Heather Bell, schooner, Salvador, from Invrrcargill. OUTWARDS COASTWISE. August 31— Aphrasia, p.s., 97 tons, Cho.yne, for Invorcergill, with cargo, ex New Great Britain. YICSSELS IN POKT. New Great Britain, trom London, discharging. Three S.sters, schooner, from InvercargiU, loading Colleen Eawn, schooner, from Invercargill, loadEXPECTED AKEIVALS. Alhambra, s.s., from Dunedin, Ist Sept. 0 The New Zealand Steam: Navigation Company's Steamer Wellington.— The abovenamed company expect a new first-clnes steamer from England in February next, the Wellington, which is now being built to order, and, from the description we have seen of her, she promises, on her arrival, to be one of the best steamers upon our coast. The Wellington, 530 tons, will be 182 feet long, having 24£ ieet beam, and 14 feet depth of hold, and a guaranteed speed of 11 knots. Pier cabin accommodation will be considerable, and will consisfcof forty-iottr first-elass passengers, and nine ladies' berth, exclusive oi sofas, and will, further accommodate fifty-four pacsengeis in her forecabin. — -Nelson JSxamiuer. The Alarm, from Hobart Town, reports tho arrival of the Holyrood, from London, bound to Mew Zealand, with passe.ngers.. .She was leaking badly. The Alarm also signalled the ship Vocalist, • bound South, off the Dromedary..— By(l#cy Moraiag ll.erald. < .-■; Total Less by.Fitus or sche Ship Dpchess op Leinsteb. — Advices from the Island of Tobago communicate the loss, by- fne, of the British ship Duchess of Leineter, Captain Newtnn,y>elon<jing to Lirerpodl, in the harbi r of that .p'.a- e, on' the

7th pi' May, which wta supposed to lmye been caused, by two of the'erew; setting light to the cargo while stealing some rum'. The vessel, 400 tons register, had partly taken her cargo on board for London, consisting of 'about 70 puncheons of rum, 400 barrels and bogheads of sugar nnd molasses, ' nh'dsoino ll;90Q cocoa nuts. Th» body of a sailor named Price was found in the hold. A man nitmerl Stroad was arrested on the chanre of setting fire to the ship, but the evidence whs insufficient to convict him, and he was discharged.