PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Issue 696, 15 July 1867, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

- abbited. r j.July 13.-rtPhoßbe, b.s., tOO tons, Wheeler, from West 'Coast, with cargo and passengers. T. G-. Tanton, agent. ""

As-the-flr-s. -Rangatira-was on -her- passage between Wellington and Wanganui on Thursday night, '"she passed (indistinctly visible in the ■waning moonlight), the wreck of .a, vessel, apparently aboiit- ; forty tens, ' floating bottom upwards. The wind at the time was blowing half a gale, with a heavy sea runnnig, and 'any attempt to ascertain particulars of the unfortunate craft was. impossible. The appearance of the ■wreck, so far' as it could be ascertained, corresponds- -to-thafc-of - the schooner-Ben Nevis,-whose-•unaccountable absence we noticed last week, and it is to be feared' tihat these are now the remains of that ill fated vessel.—" Wanganui Chronicle." The "Daily Times," 10th July says;— "A telegram received yesterday by Messrs W. H. Joyce and Co, states that the Hokitika bar con-/ tinuea closed, and is likely to remain so for some time. We notice that a telegram has also been received' in Christchurch, stating that aa many !as fourteen, vessels were off the bar. on Friday .last, all withVjargoes, and that none of them" was able to enter. >This continued blockade of the port is having a most serious effect . upon the trade of Hokitika. \~". . . : The PAEEOEi.— The London "Tunes," of April 30tfrgive8 the following, under date "Paramaribo, Surinam, April 4th.:"— ":The steamer Pareora, of Crlasgow, ofiicial number 56," 161, Captain William Graham/ put in' here on the Ist inst. She left the port af Greenockon October 28th last, bouud for Dunedin, New Zealand, but, from the. bad steerage wjay .of the vessel and the foulness of the fcottdm : witnseaweed,-she was quite' unmanageable, and becoming short of provisions the captain was /rtdiged to : ..put intotlie nearest and .safest^ port he could^rcacu'with the' vessel." A Me -sage PEOit the Sea.— On Wednesday, the 6th instant, the mailman, while travellingalong the Wairarapa coast line, picked up an imperfectly . sealed-Jjottle washed ashore by the tide. Inside the bottle was a- scrap of paper on •which there were traces of pencil writing, for the mosc_part ..undecipherable. This message from the sea was dated " 24th March, .off Pencarrow Head." A letter E' was also" plainly seen, but the rest was quite obliterated by the salt water. This discovery prompted - to- -a more careful eearch t ,and far from where the hottle. was* picked up" there was found the leg j of an .adult. . human being, supposed . to be , that of 'kkktat and hear to it a" case of brandy. Pieces of timber and fragments of cases were ] also/pund scattered about the beach, which , are Bupp^d' to, Have;, belonged , to some vesselwreck;ed "oii ; .%e coast or, broken up at sea, but in ! the abjsenjee oj'further. , evidence., the truth cannot be ascertffuia.d .with' any; degree of certainty .r— " Nelson Examiner," June .22. . ■"■'.':■