PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 100, 12 October 1863, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR

Oct. 10th, 1863. TIDES. High \ra nt Bluff Hiirbor at full and ehnngp 1*40; range four to ei^ht feet. High wnter a( New Eiver Heads one hour sooner ; there is, bowever, very little differenco between the time of high water at the head of the Bluff aud the jetty at Invercargill. DAILY IIDE TABI7R. a.m. p.m. Oct. 12— High water U.bO ... 12.50 Oct. 13— do 1.15 ... 1 35 IKWAEDS. October 10 to 12 -Nil. OUTWARDS. October 10 to 13— Nil. INWAKDS COASTWrSH. October 9— Titanin, b.b., Jarvej, from Invercarcill. Octjber 10 to 11 — Nil. OCTWABDS COASTWISE. October 9 — Huby, s.s., M* rthur, for Invprcargill, with part of original cargo ex Helenßlee, from GJmgowV October 9— Titanin, s.s.. Jiirvey, for Dunedin. Octoboi* 10 — Aquila, Austin, fur Invercargill, ■with part of original cargo, ex Hiirwood. October 10 — Cjllccu Bawn, I hotnpson, for Invercnrgill, with part -of original cargo, ex Harwood. VESSFXS IN PORT-! TTHenslee, dischnrging. Hanvood do i EXPECTBD ARRIVALS. \ Aldinga, R.M.S.S., loth instant* The Lady Denison bound fo" Lyttleton, only called to land her passengers for this port. . She left TTobart Town on the 28th ult., and has hod similar weather to the Emma Prescott. The regular trader Emma Prescott arrived from Hohnrt Towr in the fomnonn. She hnd a fine run up to mnking the land on Thursday last, when she experienced a strong northerly gale for 24 hours; afterwards, pasterly weather to arrivnl, having left on the 26th.— Danedin Daily Telegraph, 7th October, A telegram from Braid wood, in the Sydney Herald of the 23rd ult. says: — Intelligence reached here last night from Moniya that the steamer Mimosa wns totally lost on Sunday, off Meritnbula ; two lives lost. Ship ok Fire at Hba. — The barquo Fortuna, the well known trader between this aud London, which arrived in Table Bay on 25th instant from Lon lon on the 19th of May, for tfaU port, with a general cargo, reports that during the voyage, on the 2nd July, smoke was observable rising up on the horizon, which they supposed to be the smoke from a steamer. Later in the day, however, a strong reflection of light was seen in the sky, which the captain at once believed to be a ship on fire. All hands were then called np to " bout ■hip," and they stood towar.ls the spot from whence • the light proceede 1. This was at six o'clock, aud at two o'clook on the morning of the 13! h July, and in latitude 25-57 south, and in longitude 38 20 west, the Fortuna ran up within lorty yards of a large vessel of 800 or lUOO tons, which was enveloped in one mass of flamo from stem to stern. Nothing remained of her but the hull ; the whole of her rigging, masts, and decks had been completely consumed. As the Fortuna ran towards the wreck, another vessel, the Oaks, bound to Calcutta, joined her, and the two vessels spoke one with another. From what Captain Burt'ett could make out the captain of the Oaks told him that in the evening, about half-past "six, an English man-of- wnr passed him, and wb.il t passing she fired two guns, from which it was concluded that the crew of the burning yes el had been rescued by the man-of-war. Tlie captains of the Oiks and F rluna had some conversation as to the propriety of remaining by the vessel dur.ng the ni^ht, but they arrived at the conclus on that such a course would be useless, for, if any boats Had Lift the vessel in the afternoon, they, during the eight hours they wero beating up to her, must have seen them ; and the two vessels then parted and proceeded on their voyages. For three hours after leaving ?he burning vessel the fire could be still seen from the desks of. the Fortuna. The vessel is very probably a Federal one, set on fire by some -Confederate man-of-war, perhaps by the Georgia, which vessel, it is well known, is cruising about in these waters. — Cape Argus, July 28.