WRECK OF THE SCOTIA AT BLUFF HARBOUR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 4 June 1864, Page 2

WRECK OF THE SCOTIA AT BLUFF HARBOUR.

[BY ELECTBIC tMaEGBAAPHS^A^ * a'- " 4; ><>'"- t,^y.t^> / "We have receiVedfethe following telegrams from our correspondent at the fßlufF: — J ;/-i f „ , y / „ « . ~~~ «^.^^The^3i«tal'p^o.3.OLa.m^ The s.s. Scotiayileft? Hobson s Bay at 5 pm. on the— 2Sth— ultimo,- -for Bluff Harbor, Otago, iWeUington, and Picton, ,with large cargo,"and^fullfcomplement of I passengers. Experienced fine weather'on \ the passage.^ the 'BlufF at | 9p.in % ,0n r the 2nd.^ *W]bile the ship was '■ rdimd^hg'Stirfmg'sPoint^she i on the rocks. „. .The, engines yf§re instantly | r eversed, b'ut^the t water po'ming in so fast | put out 'the fir^^^dMy^Tlle^s.Plils [ q.^te, iupright^&mjy em]b^ded ? :The pas- ' | sengers-were-instantly-danded-at-the-Pilot Station, madejj-at once to, .discharge the ?cargo,r!whichowillbje completed to-day, tKe^Blufi^poxtion being pnt on deck previous to thßamvalVof the vessel. p ¥e Y^elifeye ' that, with proper applia^ces^ jbe^sh^LwHl^e water being quite-smooth^ and the unfortunate vessel sheltefedfromtlfe westerly 'winds. '"At v th<3~l^ ship was in charge of Captl Gay (?) The Pilot boat liad put %fflito Kef, 'but . had not got . alqngside^^ ; '*"*' ■-*' . yz ■ <; -THE BjLTJFF, 5 p.m. The.jScotia jwas hoye-to for Ijhree<hours last night/ Captain ■* Gay? intehding to wait till daylight befo^'fuffiing-'m for the Bluff, he being a strangef"to"the port • but from, the ; representation of 'a gentleman pascenger/who was . well . acquainted with the port, he; consented to.run-.in. , The damage sustained ;by the vessel is greater th'an'wM exp"e"et*e'd:"* , "'The' , wholeof the water-tight } c6mpartm^nts are full of water, shciwin^ that the s vessel Vbottomjis damaged frc>m /stemjhb' , \sterhV There ? is little hope pf gettmg. her off*. : ,. At high w-ater the cabin floor is eoyered with water' and- portions of the^'twelen'/idecks. ■-.- All cargo in the lower__hol(L.damaged. The crew and a large, numbpr of men are employed stripping the ship and removing cargo. The cutter^ Acqiiila has '"brought up a portion of, -the, cargo,- and a large number of boats are employed. The position of the vessel is : the^ame,' viz;, on the Stirling Point, half 'a cable length from the flagstaff at the Pilot Station.