PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 95, 30 September 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Sept. 26th, 1803. TIDES. High water afc Bluff Harbor at full and change 1*40; range four to eight feet. High wnter at Newßiver Heads one hour sooner; there is, however, very little difference between the time of high water at the head of the Bluff and the jetty at Invercargill. DAILY TIDE TABLE. a.m. p-rtj. Sept. 30— High water 2.5 ... 1.45 Oct. 1— do 2.50 ... 2.30 I2TV7AKDS. September 28— Helenslee, 700 tons, Brown, from Glasgow, with 319 emigrants, September 29— Nil. OUTWARDS. September 2£— -Edina, s.s. 600 tons, Rolls, for Melbourne, with 20,000 ozs gold. IKSTAEPS COASTWISE. September 27-r-Edina!, s.B. 500 tons, Rolls, from Dunedin, with 20,0000zs gold; OUTWARDS <COASTWISE. September 28 to 30— KiL VBSSBUB IX. ZGBT. PoUy, discharging. Keieaslee, frora Glasgow, EXFECEED X&JtiyAl.g. Alhambra, 8.M,5.5., on or .about 3Qth justant, from'Caiitsrbary aud Dunedin. Harwood, sbip, from London, dailj^ ... .•■■''•-' -•' ' ■' - PASsBNCf-iBB WSr. - Cabjn— -Captain Laiaoa.t; seven is* the;j»teerag?. • v •;■: ' '.-. ;.' 0 The 'ship Heiens|eej; ; fn6nj Glaßgow, 319 paßßengerfljjWas brought up to th^i inner harbojr, o& Mapday ,HJ<w'*feg"^ ''$$* uasHjadethe run out itom anchor to' anelior, in seventy-eight days. .The passengers arc all well. '£he j&ealtii Board visited

the ship this morning, and they report most favorably on her; only one case ot Bickncss the whole voyage 'out. Eighty of <th>- passengers rro for Otago, Dr'M'Clure speaks very highly "of the ['state of the slitp.. s The EJina, s& arrived in \hh port about 12 noon Sunday,2 7 tv instant, 1 " bringing 20,000uzs gold, from dunedin, and 40 passengers. There is at present an unusually large quantity , of coals in the port, and all the regular hulks being - full, the ship Sir Win. Eyre has been chartered as a receiving ship for coals for the next lour or five months. The J. W. Paine, and Lindsays are now , both alongside dischargiug, and as soon as the other i ships cargoes are exhausted, the several steamers wiN receive their supplies alongside the 'Sir Win, \ Eyre.— Daily Times, September 25. Within the last few days the liftereoflom'&l fleet ] of steamers has received several additions of an I important character. The first o^ these vessels to ' arrive waa the Alexandra, a new Clydo-built vessel, which now lies alongside one of the old piers at Williamstown, with the' broom at her mast head, indicating that she "ia fov sale. The next was the City of LauncieSton,,a\so -from the Clyde, now in the Yarra. She is intended for, the Tasmanian trade, and. will take her .place on that line "as soon as she is discharged find "ready for sea. The third, j and most Taluable of sill, is the Hero, built at Hull, (j and likely to be employed in the Now Zealand trade, j This vessel lies alongside the Railway Pier, atj Sandridge, and yesterday was visited by hundreds of parsons "She is a powerful looking vessel, and her rapid passage from England is a proof that her capabilities are equal to her looks. We shall also havcthe City of Hobart again in the trade of the port in a week or two, with new boilers, and after a thorough overhaul. We may add that the Queen, also' thoroughly refitted, has commenced to ply between Melbourne and Brisbane, touching at Sydney,— a service in which the Baiclutha was for a short time engaged, before her purchase by the Australasian Steam Navigation Cotnp my. — Argus, September 21. The steamship City, of Launceston anchored in TTobson's Bay yesterday afternoon, having left Port Glasgow, on the 6ih 'Jane. She is the latest addition to our colonial steam fleet, having been built by Messrs Black wood nnd Gordon, of Port Glasgow, expressly for the L<iunceston and Melbourne Steam- Navigation Company. She is a very fine ■ vessel of 368 tons, and is propelled by two engines : of eighty nominal horsepower. She is 177 ft long, with 24 ft beam, and depth of hold 11 ft 7 in. Her saloon is in the poop ou the deck, and i» a very elegant apartment, with -enclosed berth for twenty passengers, independent of the ladies' cabin, where there is accommodation for twelve ladies. She has a fine roomy deck, and is fitted up with all the modern improvements for comfort of passengers of all classes. Captain liobson reports having experienced very heavy weather while running down the easting. She brings no cargo, merely coals and stores for the company.— Argus. (