PORT OF INVERCARGILL.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 28, 11 January 1864, Page 2

PORT OF INVERCARGILL.

January 8 and'9;— Nil. " - V V OtrrWAKDS. January B—Starnf Victoria, 275 tons, M'Eachern for Liun'ceston, with cargo. White and Sjns, agents. ■--■..■••• ■■•- • «• ■■ ~ ■ •-- •• ■■ ; January 9—Nil. - i : iKWARnsi coASTwrsB. January § and 9—Nil. ! < ■ _ ,_^...^_-... OOTWARDB COASTWISE. ~. •"■"'' JaWary'B—Nil. January 9—-Struggler, Meadows, for Bluff, via Rirerton. ■-..-.. ... ..

The schooner Pilot arrived from Jnvercargill laafr-pvenintr, after a passage of:nine days, duringwhich moderate southerly winds were exnerien ced. Ctptain Jaraicson has supri lied us with l«-v<?rcar-gill papers to the 12th instant aud heailso reports that the Emma Prescott and Cosmopolite arrived from Hnhart Town on" the 13th instant,—fl> T. Advertiser. 24" h December. Sdnie^anxie'y is beginning to be"felt as to *he barque Lorenzo Sabine, bound for this port from Lnunceston; and n>w considerably overdue. She js understood to have sailed from Launceston on tie 11th Ppcembrr with a cargo ot horses and adrlitionaHrcighr, including poultry and siuiiUr live stock for the Christinas market and she is no! reporipd as, having a rived at any port in New Zoalitif', nor had,she been spoken since the day of bortSapartUK". What increases tbe anxiety ia the reported circumstances of the b.idies of horses being v 88hed;dii' sboie on eoine island in the Straits and on4beroa*t of Ta mania. Mr Turner was (he cbartere'", «nd he or some of his fiiends would in aHfprpbftbility be on board. It is much to be hoped that her delay has merely aris n (romt-lie very unfavorable weather which she woul I hare experienced tor some time after the date of her departure,—Otago Times. TafB.ScBiBW Straitse "Weixixgtok. — Ou,r readers will be glad to learn th»t the new boat ; fo* the-.!N.Z;S N: Company, the Wellington, was euccessfu'ly launched nt Purt Glasgow, on the 24th:of .October. Everything passed o£F successfully, an-tfrom the. report* of several gpntlpmen of .-.nautical esperiencp who had seen the Wellington, W"e l/'iarn* .that she 5s a well-built -vessel, vritli ex pellenl )}neß, in*) j r.>niises to be a fft9'. saitet.^ The : W<llington'ha« a hold spare of 397 tons, viz : — F«^re toid, 8480 feet, at 40 fret per ton, 212 tons; after bold", ,440i>. fret, at 40 feet per ton, 110 tuns; coal bunkers, 3000 feet, a* 40 feet per (on, 75 tons; —-making, as "before mentioned, a hold sc»ce of 397 ton's for cargo and Coal-, exclusive of cabins *»nd,engine room. Her launching draught is 5 feet 10 inches forward, and 6 feet 6 inches aft. T'! 3 fine vessel will be a great acquisition to our streira n\-et, nnd will afford passenger accommodation of a class wns>irpas=ed by flriy of the bouts -a*- ]»■ esent trading here. Every means were being employed to get her ready f>>r sea, an 1 her ar: ival here may be expected iu March —Wellington Independent, Dec. 29. Thb Scbkw Steamer Wasgasui —We • undei-stand that letters have been received in town frr-m Ciiptain L'nklater. stating that the s.sWi\ngnnui got out of dock on the i7ih, nnd saiiel from Dundee for ■Wellinston direct on the 19fh October. The Wanganui is a sister vessel to «lie Jtanga.tiri, being very neatly the same in buil t, size,- and tonnage. —Wellington Independent, De-. 29. The schooner Coml Queen which sailed on Thursday lust returned to port on Saturday evening, <'aptain Tniyte having put back in consequence of a serious accident to the mate. It appears that the crew were engaged stowing tbe anchors and had r:-i ei one of them on end for the purpose of removing the stock when the schooner gave a plunge whigW bad the effect ot throwing the chief officer down upon the bilts and the anchor being likewise jerked forward the shank of it fell upon his head, crushing his jaws in a frigMful manner between it and the bitts. Onptain Trnyte having no medical aid on hoard, very wisely hc orce determined to reiurn to port, rhu the sutferer havin: been pliceti under medical care, we are glad to learn is doing wt-11, although, from the serious jiature of the accident it will probably be some time before he rec vers. —Nno Zealctnder. • Capture of a Slavkr —On the 23rd of August a schooner (name and nntion unknown), captured by H.M.S Espoir, arrived at St Helena, with 466 fclaves; and »n the 28th of that m >nth the Kspi»r also brought 111, the remainder of the surviving negroes" who were on bo^rd the schncner when captured. Two hundred ot the mules above twelve years of age, who were willing to serve as soldiers, were accented for service in the West India regijnentt. The remaining. 577, of whom 252 were males have been lojdged under tbo care of the government superintPiioVnt''ilk Rupert's Valley. — Mitchell's Maritime Register. Cosfedbeatk Steam.EE. Fx-okida —Liverpool. Thursday. —The. following Las been received in vep y to a letter from the 8 crct.irv of the Underwriters' Association, which will doubiless prove interesting to many of our r^a'leri. —" Brest, Sep timber 23tb. 1863 —Sir,—ln replv to your letter ot the 25th instant, I have to inform you that the GViitederate cruiser Florida, afier terminating, in the government dry dock, such repairs as required lier being docked, is now in the mercantile barbor, continuing to be refitted. She will go iuto the roa - stead in eight or ten days, but will not be ready for sea before three weeks or a month hence. I shall telegraph to you the d.iy t-he sails. The Federal steamship of war Kearsage, Captain Winslow, arrived here last week from M;idierann-i Farrol. She is in want of co-ah, which she has not yet begun to take in, the supply in merchant's hands being _.very low ; she is to commence coaling to-morrow. You are aware that twenty-lour hours at least must elapse after tbo sailing of one of these ships before the other is allowed to depart. The Kearaage his been cruising in the vicinity of the Azores tor some time; she is reoorttd to be a sister vessel to tbe Tusi-arora. —lbid.