PORT OF INVERCARGILL

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 228, 14 March 1866, Page 2

PORT OF INVERCARGILL

EfWARDS. March 12 and 13.— Nil. OUTWARDS. March 12 and 13.— Nil. INWARDS COASTWISE. March 12 and 13.— Nil. OTJTWATCDS COASTWISE. March 12 and 13 —Nil. PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR. ARRIVED. March. 12 and 13.— Nil. SAILED. March 12 and 13.— Nil. Bluff, 10th. March. The ps. Southland, Captain Fraser, arrived here on the 10th inst., from Dunedin. Captain Fraser reports strong head » inds on the passage. She has a full cargo for Invercargill and will proceed on the voyage as soon as the state of the New River bar will admit her to enter. The s.B. Phabe, Captain Gardyne, left Port Chalmers on the 9th inst at 5 p.m., reports strong •westerly winds on the passage, arriving at the ■wharf at 10 a.m. on the 10th inst. A large number of passengers arrived here by this vessel, filling the Royal Coach ; also Cobb & Co.'s coach for InvercargilL Tho vessels wind bound at the Heads are the Kate, for Riverton ; Flying Buck, for Invercargill ; Three Sisters, for Invercargill ; also a " schooner arrived this morning, name unknown. The schooner Flying Buck left Port Adelaide on the 22ud ult. with a cargo of flour and bran for Invercargill, arriving of New River Heads at 2 p.m. on the Bth inst. Signalled to the Pilot Station for a pilot but could receive no answer, and being unwilling to run to leeward of the port, knowing at the time that the bar was quite safe to take, and also that a vessel had entered the river that tide, sto -d off and on with signals flying for a pilot till dark, when, durins the ni<rht the wind set in with terrific violence from the ■westward, doing considerable damage to the schooner's canvas, and compelling h?r to run before the gale for the Bluff Harbor, anchoring at the Heads early on the morning of the 9th inst., where she still remains at anchor wind bound.