PORT OF BLUFF HABBOR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 9, 21 June 1864, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HABBOR.

Moitdat, 20th Juke. AItEIVBT). Juno 20 — Colleon Bawn, Thomson, from Invercargill. Juno 20 — Titania, Jarvey, from Invercargill, with 20 ton 3 general cargo. THB R.M.S. Alhambra left Melbourne on the 12th mat., -four hours after the arrival of the English mail ; experienced strong east winds on the passage down ; arrived at 0 a.m. on tho 19th, landing mails and passengers ; sailed again for Dunedin. ' ; The R.M.S. Aldinga left Dunodin at 5 p.m. on the 18tb instant ; experienced strong east wind ; ■arrived at the Bluff at 7 a.m. on Sunday ; took on board the mails for England ; sailed' again {or Melbourne. y ■»

Hobaet Tows papers relate the arrival thero of tho barque Countess' of Seafield, bound from London to Canterbury, inamost deplorable condition. Sho encountered on'the 27th AprU, in lat- 47 deg. 12 sec. south, and Y long. 78 deg. east, a terrific hurricanerw-hichw-as accompanied by a heavy sea, and carried away her -wheel, binnacle, kc, nnd disabled the chief officer. On the 28th, sho had ten men washed overboard, and her deck-house, galley, bulwarks, kc, swept away. Sho experienced fine weather for tho remainder of the passage to Hobart Towii. She brings a quantity of ironwork for the Christchurch "Railway. Thb Swedish barque Oscar sailed in tho forenoon, bound for the Bluff, where she is chartered to discharge several hundred tons of railway iron and other heavy material. Captain Lowden, chief- pilot, proceeded with her as pilot as far as the Bluff. The next vessol to the same port is Bilesia,.all with railway plant. The barque Malay, "s-hich sailed . in tho * afternoon, is chartered for another trip from Newcastle to this port. — Otago Daily Times. The water-tank Father Thames, which has for the past twelve months supplied water to shipping bo£h afc Bluff Harbor and at this port, is about to be despatched by her owners to Auckland, where she will, no doubt* be found of considerable service in enabling stock-vessels and others to obtain ready and abundant supply of fresh wator for ship purposes- — Ibid..