PORT OF INVERCARGILL.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 532, 2 August 1866, Page 2

PORT OF INVERCARGILL.

ABRIVAXS. August I—Nil.1 — Nil. _ PORT OF BLUFF HARBOB. DEPARTURES. August 2 — Phcobe, s.s., for Dunedin. A correspondent at Bruce Bay, writing to the "Westland Observer" «f the 17th July, says:— " A friend of mine, Mr Daniel Fern, has just arrived, after unheard-of suffering, overland from Jaokson's Bay, and has informed me that three miles to the north of the Haast River, lie saw a boat, or waterman's slciff, marked 'Rangitira — T. Parkinson.' She had been hove up on the beach high and dry, and but slightly damaged. From the barnacles "on her, he judges that ehe has been about six months in the sea. The London ship King of Trumps, Captain G. Jenkins, bound for Otago, New Zealand, with passengers and general merchandise, and which has put in hero to repair damages, was towed up from Trumpeter Bay yesterday to her anchorage in the Cove. The ship was first signalled as a stranger, with loss of bowsprit, on Tuesday, and was not mnde out until yesterday. Captain Jenkins reports that ho left London on Ist March G-ravesend on the 3rd and Land's End on the Bth March ; crossed the equator on tho 2nd April, in 23deg. 20min. W. ; had then bad south-east, trades and light winds until 29ti Apsil, when the ship then inlat. 44deg. 24min. S., long. lOdeg. 14min. E., experienced a very heavy gale from tho N.W., veering to S.W., which continued until May 5, tho ship then in 44deg. lOmin. S., and 24deg. 30min. E. Had fine weather to May 10, when in lat. 43dog. 43min., long. 3Sdeg. 20min., a hurricane commenced from E., veering to N.E., with a fearful sea. On May 12 the wind veered from N.E. to W.SfW., then to W., and then to N., still blowing a hurricane. The wind moderated on the 13th, and on the 18th heavy gales again came on from S.S.W., S.S.E., and S., which continued for twenty-four hours. Had then a succession of very heavy gales until Juno 4, when in lat. 49deg. S., long. 133deg. E., a cyclone was experienced, accompanied by a heavy sea. At two a.m. a sea struck the port bow and carried away the bow-sprit, breaking it short off at the night heads, a second sea washing everything off the decks. The masts were stayed, and endeavors wern made to clear the wreck, which was a task of great difficulry, the bowsprit hanging by the bobstays. cb:ilhig the starboard bows nearly through ; and it was expected that the bowsprit would make its way through. At noon, however, the wreck was cleared away ; Captain Jenkins unfortunately, whilst engaged in the work, getting ' bis hand jammed between a portion of the wreck and the rail, receiving a very severe injury from which he is still suffering. The weather then moderated until the Sth inst., when in 48 deg 12min. S., 135dejr. Bmin. E., at half-past four p.m, a luirricsne set in, the wind Teering from E.N.E. to S. and 8.W., with a frightful sea. — Southern Cross, 19th July.