PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 530, 31 July 1866, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

ABEIVALS. July 29— WUliam Miskin, 150 tons, Hepburn, from Dunedin. J. T. Waddle, agent. -DEPAKTtjnKS. jg"July 29— WUliam Miskin, for Hokitika. J.T. Waddle, agent. -RXPOET3. July 28— Per WiUiam Miskin — 19 casks fish, J. Wright. PASSENGKRB LIST. PerWiUisni Miskin— Cabin : Mr Wright, Mrs Duffy, and Masters Duffy (2). The William Miskin left Port Chalmers at 10 p.m. on the 28th inst, with an east wind, and arrived at the BlutTnt 4 p.m. on Sunday, the 20th inst., and sailed for Hokitika and the Grey the same evening. We are indebted to Captam Parr, of tho Phoenix, for a copy of the " Okarita Times " of the 21st. The Phoenix left Okarita on Saturday night, and arrived at the Heads on Friday morning, tJt 2 o'clock. On the passage, spoke the schooner Danzig, from Dunedin to Invercargill, which put back under the Nuggets on Thursday, in consequence of a head wind. — " DaUy Times, 28th July. Aeeival of the s.s Rakaia, fbom Panama. — The P.N.Z. and A.R.M., Company's b.s. Rakaia, Captain J. H. Wright, arrived in harbor at midnight of the 23rd. She left Panama on the 25th June, bringing the mails from 2nd June, a3 weU as cargo and passengers for New Zealand and Australasia. The voyage from Panama was accomphshed in twenty-eight days, during the first twelve of which she encountered fair weather; but after passing, Piteairns Island a cries of heavy gales was encountered, which j causedtheslight delay in her passage from Panama. The Rakaia left Milford. Haven on the 21st AprU, and called at St. Vincent and Rio Janiero for coaling purposes. She passed through the Strait ef MageUan and arrived at Panama on the 17th June. Tlie arrival of this pioneer steamer at Panama was greeted in the mo st enthusiastic manner. The passage from England to Panama was stormy in the extreme. A heavy pampero was encountered off the Rio de la Plate, obliging Captain Wright to heave-to his ship for fortyeight hours ; and in the Strait of MageUan. the weather was so severe that the vessel was anchored in Borgia Bay for twenty-four hours. The distance from England to Panama has been accomphshed by this splendid steamer in forty-six actual steaming days, and the total distance of over 19,080 miles has been run in less than three months, including seventeen days' stoppage. The Rakaia brings five passengers and a general cargo from England. She will leave for Sydney, where she wiU receive a thorough overhaul, this afternoon, — "New Zealand Advertiser," 25th June LOSS OF FOUR P.N.Z. AND A.R.M COMPANY'S Coal Ships. — By the arrival of the s.s. Ruahine, from Sydney, Captain Benson, the Manager ol the P.N.Z. & A.R.M. Company, has received inteUigance of the loss of four large vesseis either belonging to, or chartered by the Panama Company, and on their way to WelUngton with cargoes "of coal. The first of them is the ship Esk, which vessel became water-logged; and was compeUed to run into Sydney Harbor, where she was run upon the beach, and became immediately a total wreck. The barque Midas, WiUiam Watson, and Sorata have aU bei n wrecked near Newcastle, and their cargoes entirely lost. From what we have been enabled" to gle-in, tho crews of the vessels effected their escape, except in the case of the WiUiam Watson, and we regret to learn that her captain (Moranj and one of tlie stewards were lost in her. The sudden and unexpected loss sf so many vessels at one time is not only a source of great zegret, but the circumstance wiU involve the Panama Company in considerable difficulty with regard to the supphes they have been calculating upon coming to hand almost immediately. These four '"cargoes of coal were confidently reckoned upon, and the greatest inconvenience wiU arise through the wr. ecs if the vessels conveying them. — '" .New Zealand Advertiser,' _drd Jul}*. Nelson Lighthousk Tovfbb. — The foUowing notice to mariners has been pubHshed by the President of the Marine Board : — " A red Ught has been placed in the Ughthouse tower at Nelson, and wiU be exhibited on and after the first day of August, 1860. It wiU be visible from the edge of the bright Ught, bearing W. by S. to S.W. This red light is only intended to assist pUots and others weU acquainted with the port when taking vessels into the harbor at night. Strangers are warned not to be misled by the light of which notice is now given, but to foUow the directions alrealy published when approaching the anchorage of the Port Nelson." — " Nelson Examiner, 18th July.