POET OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 August 1864, Page 2

POET OF BLUFF HARBOR.

ASBIYED.

August 9. — Mary Van Avery, Tonge, from Stewart's Island, with 25,000 feet of timber. August 10. — Phoebe, 8.5., Wheeler, from Dunedin and Northern Ports. August 10. — Hero, s.s., Logan, from Dunedin. SAILED. August 10. — Ruby, e.s., for Invercargill, with cargo, ex Gothenburg. EXPECTED AH2IVAX9. Aldinga, from Melbourne, on 15th inst. City of Hobart, from Dunedin, daily. Gananoque, ship, from London, early. Sevilla, 6hip, from the Clyde, 21st May. Airedaie, from Dunedin and Northern Ports, on 12th inst. Escape, from Leith, 20th April. PBOJECTED DEPASTURES. City of Hobart, for Melbourne, on arrival from Dunedin. Electric, ship, for Sydney, tliis day. Passengse List. August 10. — Per Phcebe, from Dunedin and the North. Saloon — Messrs. Muir, Miller, and Mrs. Murray, and five in the second cabin. VES3EL9 Hf POBT. Charlotte Jane, ship ; Silesia, ship ; Mary Van Avery, schooner ; Aquilla, cutter ; Now Chum, cutter ; Matilda Hayes, schooner ; Kato, schooner ; Colleen Bawn, schooner.

The Phoebe b.s., Capt. Wheeler, arrived at this port at 9.30 a.m. this day (Wednesday). She left Port Chalmers at 5.30 p.m. on the 9th, and made a capital passage, having run after midnight under half steam. She brings files to the 9th. The Escape, Captain M'Culloch, left Leith for Southland on the 20th April last. Her appearance may therefore be looked for daily, being •omething like sixteen weeks at sea. The fine steamship Hero, from Dunedin and and Northern Ports, arrived at this port shortly after the Phoebe, and after leaving mails and passengers, and receiving same, sailed for Melbourne at 11.30 a.m.

«s> [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] DEPAKTTTBE. August 10. — Hero, s.s., for Melbourne. Bluff, 7.50 p.m. August 10. — Arrived — Schooner, name unknown. "Why Not, from Invercargill. No. 4 lighter, from InvercargilL August 10. — Passengers per Hero, for Melbourne — Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, and children ; Mr. and Mrs. Berrick, and children ; Mr. Middleton ; and fifteen in the steerage.

TH2 Ech.oon.er Mount Alexander, "which arrived on Sunday, reports no other sailing craft at Oamaru. She was some time detained there discharging cargo, having occasionally to leave the port on account of the heavy surf, and similar difficulty has lately been experienced by most of the small craft plying to and from Oamaru. — Otago Daily Times, 9th inst. Of the three small vessels which returned from the Molyneux on Saturday, the Pilot "was about or over three months in performing the voyage from and to Dunedin, having lain in Molyneux Bay for a number of weeks. It i 3 satisfactory to know that these extraordinary delays experienced by importers to the Molyneux, so much to the detriment of the district, and detriment of Capi. Murray's enterprise of placing a steamer on the river, are likely soon to be avoided, arrangements having been lately made by which, steam communication between Dunedin and the mouth of fee river will be secured. — Ibid. Thx s.s Phcebe, ■which, arrived at 10 a-m., left the Manuka at 3 p.m. on the 28th ultimo, -and arrived at Taranaki next morning. Left again about 5* p.m. same day, encountered a. heavy south-east gale in crossing jthe- Straits, and arrived at jSelson at 4. 30 p.m. on the 30th. . Left Uelson, at 9 30 pan. on the 2nd. aud arrived at Picton at 1,30 a.m. on the 3rd. Left "Wellington at 5 p.m. on sth, arrived at Lyttelton at 9 a.m. on 6th — a splendid run of 16 hours ; and left Lyttelton at 1.30 p.m. on the same day. Bos Honor the Superintendent of Otago is one of ncr passengers. — Otago Daily Times, Btih insfc. --,■■■■ '-^ The s.s. Hero arrived at Port" Chalmers on Saturday, at- 5.30 p.m., from Auckland, via Wellington and Picton. After discharging her 3)nnedm portion of freight, on her last passage to this port from Melbourne, she took her departure for the-Nbrthern Provinces on Tuesday, the 19th. ult. ShearriTed at Lyttelton on the morning of the 20th,

discharged cargo and left same day for Pieton 5 arrived at Picton on the 2lsfc, discharged cargo and left same day for Nelson ; arrived at Nelson on 22nd, discharged cargo, and left same day for Wellington ; arrived at Wellington on the 23rd, discharged cargo and left same day for Aiicldarid ;' % arrived there on "the 27th, after ; a very, stormy passage, with head winds throughout ;. remained two days at Auckland—left on the ,29th, and on. the second day out "encountered '""a "■"fearful gale which lasted three days, accompanied; with tremendous J heavy seaß, dead against the bhip; arrived at Wellington at midnight on the 2nd instant; left at 6 a.m. ion the' 4thvfor Picton, arrived at Picton same day ; left same day for Lyttelton, arrived at Lytteltoh on the sth ; left same day and arrived at Port Chalmers aa above! Thus the whole voyage round the Northern ports since leaving Port Chalmers on the 19th ult., ai distance of some two thousand three hundred miles, including the discharging and loading of cargo and landing and taking up passengers at all the different ports, has been performed in. the short space of 18 days. From Auckland the Hero brings one day's later news than the Phccbe. — Ibid. . " We learn that the Sydney and Cook's Straits steamer Tvill in future. leave Sydney on the 15th instead of the 25th. By the new arrangement, which commences > 011 the 15th inst., Nelson and Picton will get their English mail from, eight to ten days earlier than heretofore. The homeward mail,: instead of ; going to Sydney direct on the 13th, will be conveyed southward by the steamer leaving Nelson on the 12th. — Ibid.