PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 539, 13 August 1866, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

ABBIVAiS. August 11— Otago, s.s., 800 tons, Randel, from the North. T. G. Tanton, agent. , DEBABTTTBE3. August 11 — Otago, s.s., 800 tons, Eandel, for Melbourne. T. G. Tanton. agent. IMPOUT3. August 11 — Per s.s. Otago. from Dunedin — 1 truss, Perking; I/do. Longuet; 1 truss. 1 case , Porter ; 1 trunk, 1 truss, Simnan and Crerar ; 2 cases, Porter; 1 do. Scehoff; 5 cases, Mair and Garven ; 4 cases 2 bales, Porter ; 1 case, Brown and Patterson ; 1 case, order ; 4 pkgs boots, Daniels ; 4 do, Sloan ; 10 do, order ; 4 do, Brown and Patterson ; 5 do, M'Donald ; 2 cases drugs, Clarke ; 1 horse and buggy, Smith ; 1 case, 1 bale, Porter ; 1 bale, Lee ; 1 case. Calder ; 1 case, Reynolds and Co.; 1 case, order; 6 casks, Lockyer; 1 case, 1 parcel, Rose ; 1 case, order ; 1 case, Longuet :' 1 case. 1 bale, order ; 1 parcel, Harnett ; 1 do, Longuet ; 8 casks, Hamilton. August 11th— Per Excelsior— l 37 bags guano, Morison, taw and Co. ; 28 bags seeds, 2 casks do, 1 case saddlery, Cochran, Granger and Co. ; 2 tons potatoes, Capt. Bell. SAS3EXGKEB IIST. August 11 — Per s.s. Otago, from the North — Cabin : Messrs Smith, Brayton, Hamilton, Jay, Young, Paterson, Clerke, Price, and Miss Deck j ten in the steerage. — For Melbourne — Cabin : Mrs Craig and two children, Mr and Mrs Robertson. Mr and Mrs Benzies and children, Mr and Mrs Tonkins, Messrs Taylor, Ott, Livesy, Lumsden, and M'Donald j and three in the steerage.

We are able to report very favorably of the condition of the bar, which at high tide has twelve feet of -water upon it. Although the freshet caused by the late rains was not a heavy one, it proved sufficient to scour out the channel, which now runs nearly straight out, and is workable for nearly three hours on each tide. Just now, un- ' fortunately, it is hut little used, so few are the vessels arriving and departing ; hut we hope that in the course of a day or two, some of the expected arrivals from Melbourne, Lyttelton, and elsewhere will make their appearance in the offing, when they may depend upon the prompt attention of the river steamers, which lately have be<m compelled to a state of inactioD.— " West Coast Times," 2nd August.