PORT CHALMERS.

Southland Times, Issue 586, 2 November 1866, Page 2

PORT CHALMERS.

ARRIVED. • Not I—William1 — William Davie, ship, from London, ■with a general cargo, and a large number oj female passengers. « The schooner Vibilia left Hobson's Bay, and experienced light W. winds on the passage, reports a barque and the Bangitoto ofi the Solondars on Saturday last, bound west The Vibflia's cargo for this portiß for transhipment to Riverton, and the remainder for Dunedin, 1 The unfortunate brig Amhurst is again almost a wreck at the head of the bay. Captain Gilroj unmoored the brig on Sunday last, and with a volunteer crew made sail with a light easterly wind for the head of the bay, where he thought the high land would afford protection from the westerly winds, and consequently would always have smoother water to effect his repairs to the ship ; going up she got aground on the bank and fell over into the channel on her beam ends where she now lies with the waters half way up hei flecks" at high water, nearly as bad a position we believe, as she lately occupied at Stewart's Island. }» The P.N.Z. and A.8..M. company's s.s,, Phcebe, ' Capt., Wheeler left Hokieika on the 29th, at 4 p.m., experienced light head winds, and arrived at the Bluff at 6 p.m. on the 31st.