BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 32, 13 August 1864, Page 2

BLUFF HARBOR.

IST ELECTRIC TELEGEJ3>H.~\ SAILED. August 12. — Phoebe, for Dunedin and Northern Ports PAS32>-GEK UST. Aus^ist 12. — Saloon passengers. — Read, W. Wholer, Messrs. Hyans, Davidson, Lucas, Learmont, Smith, Capt. Elles. Misi Honeyman, Mr. and Mrs. Kapler, thirty-sis in the steerage. T. G-. Tanton, agent. August 12. — Electric, Purss. for Sydney. EXPOKTS. Per Electric. 500 deals. Ex Charlotte Jane — 5 qr.-easks brandy. The brig Dart entered at the Customs yesterday. She brings a miscellaneous cargo from Launeeston. Ths Leonidas is alongside the wharf, and a etrons body of men have been working for the past two days discharging the locomotive engine for the Oreti railway. Yesterday afternoon, it was hoisted out of the hold above the height of the bulwarks, -which was a task of no uncommon difficulty and danger. It •will be landed on the wharf to-day. The s.s. \ViOiam MisMn arrived in this port at a late hour yesterday afternoon. She left Dunedin wharf at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, and on getting outside the Heads, a part of the machinery became deranged £"om a small screw bolt getting into one of the pipes. This caused her to put back inside the Heads for the day. The necessary repairs being made, she again started on Thursday morning, and after a fine run of eighteen hours came alongside the Jetty. She did not call at the IBlnifonherway. Captain Godfrey reports that the tower of the lighthouse on Dog Island i3 20 feet from, the grotaidjsndspeaismost highly of the great benefit i£is beaaon will be to ressels navigating the dangerous channels from Waipapa Point to the Bhrif. The "William Miskin towed up the brig Dart, from Jjawacestom from the Bombay Boet inside the bar, np to ihe lied Bxtoy. She tnR -proceed to-day to Ifokomoko, to load railway plant for the Bell Hill contract at Bunedin.

Tkz fcargne Prince Begent, already reported, was tcrsred up in the forenoon by tie steamer

Sampspn. She has'fnade a passage of forty days from /Newcastle, haidng suffered serious detention in and" about Cook's '• Straits; She adds about 400 tpna to the already large supply of coals in this pqTtt'.—Ota^o Daily Times, 10th inst. Thb departure of the City of Hobart, expected to sail to-day (Tuesday) has been postponed for twenty-four hours.- The Gothenburg, it is understood^ will sail ion tho ond of the week. The next'iyessel from Molbourne will probably be the Omeo, via Cook's Straits, if ahe be not anticipated by the Aldinga, duo on the 16th.— Ibid. Capture of a Fbderal Ship by the Florida. — The barque Francis Milly, Eynon, from the Mauritius for London, has landed at Plymouth part of the crew of the Federal ship Avon, .a prize to the Confederate warship > Florida. The Avon, a fine vessel of 1051 tons, Captain , Howes, belonging to Messrs. Hartleys Lord arid Co., of Boston, was from Howland's Island, laden with guano, for Queenstown for orders. On March 29, in latitude 1413 N., longitude 34 W., she was boarded by the Florida, and made a prize. The Avon's crew, twenty-four in all with her stores and the- nautical instruments of her officers, were transferred to the Florida, and the fpllo\ving day the prize was burned. Ten.«f the Avon's crew subsequently joined the Florida. Captain Howes, his wife, and two children, and five of hi 3 crew, were put on board the 1 Francis Milly, on the 4th of April, The rest of the crew were reserved to be put on board some other passing vessel. The Avon was the first prize made by tho Florida since her departure from Brest, about fifty days before. The crew of the Avon report very favorably of the treatment they received on board the Florida. — European Times, May 26.