PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 10, 23 June 1864, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

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feeing jwiidved, and vessel' .will be sold on an «arly data.

Th 6 Darque Chance, Captain Dale, which tailed for Newcastle yesterday morning, was compelled to bring up off Rangitotb Reef, owing to her not hating taken in sufficient ballast Upon rounding the heads, it blowing fresh from the S.W. at the time, ihe heeled over to that extent, that Captain Dale deemed it prudent immediately to drop anchor, and upon the wind increasing, it was found neceisary to send down the top-gallant masto, and house almost everything. Boats have gone down for the purpose of supplying her with more ballast, •nd it is expected that "she will get away either -to-night or to-morrow morning. It is a fortunato thing- that it was blowing bo fresh when ehe •ailed and her crank condition discovered before •he got to sea, otherwise §he must inevitably have turned turtlo.—JVew ZealandeVi Bth June. ' Wbbok or thb ScnooNßß Nils. — The •ehooner Nile, which left here on Sunday last for ; Mr. M'Liver's mills, at Omaha, lias gone ashore at Takateu Point, near the Kawau, and, we before has become a total wreck. The Nile sailed from Auckland last Sunday morning, and experienced favorable weather' all tne way down. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, it appears •he was close to the land, when, by some means, •ho missed stays, and ran ashore on the rocks at Takatou Point Fortunately, there were no lives lost The Nile was tf vessel of 24 tons register, master's name Wallace, and was owned by Mr. T. M'liver, timber merchant, of Cus tom-House •txeet. Mr. M'Liver, we are iiifonned, purchased the Vessel only about seven months ago. for £375, and fitted her out with new sails, boom, &c, making her total cost to him about £500. We understand that she was insured in the New South Wales Marine Assurance Company for £200; Mr. Mabin, the agent for the company, sent down * messenger yesterday, in the cutter- Emma Efiaa, to ascertain the actual circumstances of 'the wreck. We may mention that this is the third vessel that Mr. M'Liver -has lost. - About three years ag6 tho •chooner William Pope became atotal wreck near the spot where the Nile i hat i go*e.«w»hojre, on which occasion no less than nine lives tjrere lost, and a ' full cargo. Another vessel, the' Phoenix,; was lost ■hortly. before the William Bopo, and the whole of the crew drowned. Mr. M'liver,. the master^and two of the crew of the Nile came in yesterday, and "left again in the Emma Eliza.— 2>. S. Crost. -. '■-;, DjssTßCCTioxoy the Babqub Jake E. WsiA UA.HS BY FrBB, A3TO HEAVY LOSS OF Lirß.— Mr. John Alexander Scott, the chief; officer of the steamer Yeun Tze Fee, has handed to ub for publication the following particulars of the loss-of the bsraue JaneE. Williams, by fire, on the 6th of February last It will be seen that Mr. Scott and three seamen, were the only persons whose livei were saved,. "Barque Jane E. Willians, 436 tons .: register, from Liverpool December 19, 1863, David Young, commander, bound to Shanghai with a cargo of coals j put. into Holyhead on the 13rd ; ship making a little water. Sailed again on January 3, 1864 ; had very fine weather until ■we got clear of the Channel, when we experienced & series of heavy gales for ten days" off Cape Finisterre, when we then got a fine northerly breeze. Passed Madeira on the 2nd February ; and on the morning of the sth, at 6 a.m., Teneriffe, bearing' south south-west ninety-three miles, an alarm was^ given thafc the ship Was on fire, smoke issuing- out of the stern and hatches. Got tho boats put, and got bread and water, and all our effects into the longboat. We then stopped up :every vent where, smoke -wa3 issuing from, and made ail possible sail upon the ship ; wind southwest. 10 a^m., long boat stove in ; obliged to cut her off. is she was sinking with all our effects in her. Noon, increasing breezes and heavy equally. saw the peak rather indistinctly. 12 mid- " night, close- to port Orotova. Shortened sail, expecting the fire to keep down untU daylight. % a.m., 6th, fire broke put from the decks and ' ship's side, when we got into the boats, it being ■. impossible to remain on board any longer. Captain »na myself and six men in lifeboat, second mate arid cix men in jollyboat '. Lo»t sight of jollyboat immediately after leaving the chip. Pulled in ■bore. Daylight;, found- the^sea. breaking very Heavily on the shore. Pulled along the isknd.for ajboufc fifteen miles to try to find a landing. 9.30,

saw a email inlet, where we thought the water waß Bmooth. Pulled for/ it. After getting close in, found the sea breaking very heavy, and impossible to turn the boat round. Captain gave orders to pull our coats' off, which we all did with one exception, when a very heavy sea broke over the boat, capsizing her and throwing all hands into tho water. Four reached the shore in safety, and four were drowned.' Boat arid oara .smashed into splinters on tho beach. ; Drowned-^Captain D. Young and three seamen.' 1 * 'Bodies washed up since, and buried in the Protestant Cemetery, in ,Orotova. Captain ten days .in water."— Cape Argus, April 5. ■ ' '