PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 533, 3 August 1866, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

DEPABTTTBES. August 2— Phoebe, s.s., for Dunedin. i A correspondent at Bruce Bay, writing to the « Westlaiid Observer" of the 17th July, says:— "A friend of mine, Mr Daniel Fern, has just arrived, after unheard-of suffering, overland from Jackson's Bay. and has informed me that three miles to the north of the Haast River, he saw a boat, or waterman's skiff, marked 'Kangitira— T Parkinson.' She had been hove up on the beach high and dry, aud but slightly damaged. JVom the barnacles on her. he judges that she has been about six months in the sea. The London ship King of Trumps, Captain ». JenHns, bound for Otago, New Zealand, with passengers and general merchandise, and which has t>ut 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 made out until yesterday. Captam Jenkins reports that ho left London on Ist March Gravesend on the 3rd and Land's End on the Sth March: crossed the equator on the 2nd April, in aSdeg. 20min. W. ; had then bad south-east trades and light winds until 29th '■ April, when the ship then in lat. 44deg. 24mm. b., lon<». lOdeg. 14min. E., experienced a very heavy gale 1 from the N.W., veering to S.W., which continued until May 5, the ship then in -iideg. lOmin. S., and 24deg. SOmin. E. Had fine weather to May 10, when in' lat. 43deg. 43mm., lone 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.S:W., then to W., and then to ST., itill blowing a hurricane. The wind moderated on the ISth, and on the 18th heavy gales again came on from S.S.W., E>.b.r>., . and S., which continued for twenty-four hours. succession of very heavy gales until June 4, ' when in lat. 49deg. S., long. 138deg. E., a cyclone was experienced, accompanied by a heavy sea. At two a.m. a sea struck tlie port bow and carried away the bow-sprit, i reaking it short off at the night heads, a second sea washing everything off the decks. The masts were stayed, and endeavors were made to clear the wreck, which was a task ot great difficulty, the bowsprit hanging by the bobstavs, i-hnfins'the starboard bows'nearly through ; and it was 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 h:s hajid j'araroed 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.. loodeg. Smin. E., at half-past four p.m, a hurricane set in, the wind veering from E.N.E. to S. and S.W.. with a frightful sea.— Southern Cross, 19th July.