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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 16 July 1864, Page 4

We liave to record a revival of trado from the other Provinces and Colonies ; and steam communication, which had for some time back been most casual, uncertain, and unsatisfactory, is now more steady and frequent. This is inducing ar. increase of business in more ways than one, and moreover augurs well for future improvement and prosperity. . Sixce the wreck of the ill-fated Scotia, news of ■wliich went homo to Europe by the last out-going mail, no casualties have occurred on our coasts. TICE two steamers, Titania and William Miskm, both known long and favorably in our coast a 3 trade, have resumed running. Very unfortunately however for the owners, and also for the ports they ply to and from, they maintain a system of racing, and veryfrequentlv enter port, almost neck and neck. This is an undesirable state of matters, and we hone it may soon he altered. ScfCE the p.s. Aphrasia left Invercargill for Dunedin. we have been placed in the unfortunate predicament of beins; without a tug for out and inward bound vessels, and great inconvenience is felt when the winds, which so greatly prevail from a westerlT direction here, are adverse. Tfis barque Union, which cleared out at Melbourne, on 16th ultimo, is now under Stewart's Island, after having encountered a succession of severe gales on the passage. The Leonidas schooner is also due, with cargo, including a locomotiTe. for the railway, from the engine-works at Baliaarat. Ws have had one arrival from Britain during the month, that of the Charlotte Jane, which left London on the 29th February last. The passengers by her arrived all well. She came into the Bluff on the 9th inst., after having experienced a fine passage to the Cape, and severe weather the remainder ef the voyage. Ths Charlotte Jane, ship. 663 tons, left London on the 29th February last. Experienced Sne weather all the way to the Cape, which she made on the 22nd May. Crossed the Line on the l*th ApriL After leaving Table Bay, Capt, Lobbit ret>orts having feUen in with severe westher. Made the Solanders on the 9th inst,, at 5 s-m. The passengers are all welL She Ir-inss three locomotive engines, and a large cargo of gcods for the Provincial Government. Two engineers accompany the vessel to put the engines and carriages together. Tee hall engines, &c. of the Seoto, were sold to Messrs- Carer and Gilles. on 4th. July, for two hundred and tea pounds. H63A2T Tovrar papers relate the arrival there 01 the barque Countess "of. SeaSeid. bound £>om London to Canterbury, ia a most deplorable condition. She encountered on the 27th Apri 1 . ra hit. 47 deg. 12 sec. south, and long. 7S deg. east, a terriSc lisrrioaue, which was accompisiedby a heavy sea, scd. esrricd away her -^heeL. brmiacle, kc, and disabled the chief oScer. On the 28th. she had ten mm washed oreTGoard, and her deck-house, galley, baiwsrks, &C, swept away. She experienced fiae vres&bsz for the resnslßder of the passage to HobsEi T-wn. She brings a quantify of ironwork for tfee CaristchnreSi EaOway.— -South-, i land Times ; Jane 2L WB2CZ O? S±E SCECO3ESK 2fH3r. — The schooner X?j2, wliteh. lefe here on Sunday last, for Mr. M'liver's ia3ls r at OaA, ess gose ashore at- TakaJes ¥<&&£, near the Sasrao, and, we beKeve has Ijeeome a total wreck. The 2f2e saOed from AEEcklsnd Iss* SanSs-j-mcnaang, and experieaced fetroira&le weather zM. the- -wnsy- dawn. At afee-xrii tbfree o r «feek. in tlte aftenxooa. it appears sh& -aras- dfiae fa tJie.-Isad, -wnas ; by some means, tbssassei-stss^snAissa sshax cat the rocks zt T2&z££Tz~Beik>£- Festtsaatelj, iliere -v&& no Mres lost. Tbe-?»t!e,-wsss Tessei of 24 tens register, mas^t r sEafiaie''WaEaee,.qssd.Trae ornnsed fey Mr. 1L iiiiwsr, fester T&sseshsmL, of. Cnatois-Bbuse street. : s£r. 3£-Xtver. ?re are hsSennsd,, poreltaasd ihe.vesseL <x&f zk&zt spca.tt<?atlis..ago. S>T £375. sad Siatei>Biar ; -<Hifc..r.'wK&i-.Besr;saa*, Is&sm, &c, isaikhsg'her U#M em£< to : lmt .*bao£; £s&>- We rmSezsteßd &&£ sSse ''Was ■insssz&J m the 2TeTT

Mr. Mabin, tho agent for the company, sent down & messenger yesterday, in the cutter Emma Eliza, to ascertain the actual circumstances of the wreck. Wo may mention that " ttiis -is ■ the third vessel that Mr. M'Livor has lost/ About threo years ago tho schooner William Pope became a total wreck near tho spot-where tho Nile has gone ashore, on which ooeasion no less than nine lives wcro lost, and a ! full cargo. Another vessel, tho Phccnix, was lost shortly before tho William Pope, and tho whole of tho crow drowned. Mr. M'Liver, the master, and two of tho crew of the Nilo came in yesterday, and left again in tlio Emma Eliza.— D. S. Cross.