QUARANTINE LIMITS IN PORT PHILIP.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 73, 16 November 1864, Page 2

QUARANTINE LIMITS IN PORT PHILIP.

The Argus of the 25th insti says : — ' ."A proclamation appeared in the. Government Gazette last night, amending, as follows, the description of the boundaries of the Quarantine Station at Point Ifepean, and the limits of the quarantine anchorage of the port oi" Melbourne :— " The Quarantine Station.— The Quarantine Station at Point Nej^ean. shall .be. that portion of the county of ZUTorjilngton,- - in tKe colony o£ "Victoria, commencing ab the flagstaff On Observatory Point, about one mile and a half east of Point 27epean, which flagstaff bears from the high lighthouse at Shortland's Bluff south thirty degrees east, and bounded on the north by the shores of Port Philip Bay eastward to -a flagstaff bearing frOni the said lighthouse south forty-five degrees east, on the east by a line south by Bass's Straits westerly, and on the we3t by a line bearing north to the conimencing-point. " Quarantine Anchorage. — The Quarantine Anchorage of Port Philip'shall be that portion of the harbor commencing/at a point three-quarters of a mile distant from Observatory Point, and bearing north, -from it; thence extending in an easterly direction afc the same distance from, and parallel to the line of coast leading to Point Sing, to a point bearing north three-quarters of a mile from a flagstaff erected midway between Point King and Observatory Point. The magnetic bearings of the' extreme points' of the Quarantine Station at Point If epean are as follows, namely : — The flagstaff on- Observatory Point, marking the western end of the Quarantine Station, bear 3 south 85tleg. east from the flagstaff on Point Lonsdale, and south 30deg. east from the high lighthouse. ; The flagstaff on Ticondcroga Point, which marks the eastern end of the Quarantine Station, bears from the high lighthouse south 45deg. east." "Wreck op tub Westebit Light. — Captain; Eeid, of the British barque Henry Darling, arrived -yesterday, reports that on the 14-th. -instant, when off Panlo ;Laui, in Gasper Strait's,' saw a vessel, .Trhich proved to be the British ship Western light,; Captain Cruikshank, ashore on a reef off tho north; end of the above Island. The Henry Darling* anchored, as well as the Heroe3 of Alma and; Langdale, which were in company. They found the 'vessel's fore part on the reef, but during 1 Sunday night she slipped off, and the anchor wasi let go in deep water! All hands as well a3 men; irorn iiic i.ham& sHips, .tamed to . the pumps andcontinued pnmpmU & v bs<&t%'-tQVX ltOUr3, during: which time they had only gained OUC foot, On Tuesday morning the Dutch Resident from Bilitonwent on board, and having Bent divers under the, vessel who reported.a large hole in the bows, i£ was determined 'to strip the vessel and save what they could. The vessel, a large one, was coal loaded in the lower hold, and had deal planks in: her 'tween decks, which' probably assisted to keep' her afloat. On Wednesday morning, the 17th/ the He^nry Darlinj left,' bringing five! of the' crew; The vessel then had twenty-one feet water in the^ hold. ' Captain Cruikshank and his wife went onj shore with the Datch Besident, and thereaiainder, ,pf- the a?ew... were distributedi between i the otheif Vessels/ 'It was intended to attempt' 1 hauling the; vessel pn toithe reef ; again] :but:therei^aß everyj chance of her sinking.— Strait* Tvmt, Sept. 5. j