PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Issue 950, 13 May 1868, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

ABBIVED. May 12 — Alhambra, 496 tons, John M'Lean, from Melbourne. Dalgety and Co. agents. SAILED. May 12 — s.s. Alhambra — M'Lean, for Dunedin. Dalgety and Co. agents. IMPOSTS. Per Alhambra — 30 cases brandy, H. T. Boss ; 2 pan* axles, 18 three leg pots, 6 ovens and doors, 1 case tacks, 3do hardware, 2 bdls rope, 7 coils do, 3 bdls waggon hoops, 300 spokes, E. Cowper' 1 case saddlery, Galletly ; 1 cask hardware, 1 case do, 2 pkgs do, Ekensteen & Hall ; 10 bales sacks, 63 bags malt, Dalgety and Co. ; 1 pkg cigars, Witwer ; 32 pkgs sugar, Matheson and Co ; 1 bale, 1 case, 4 do, 1 do, 1 bale, 6 qr casks rum, Hare Pratt and Co; 10 bags flour, 5 do maize, 3 cases vestas, 10 cases geneva, Jas. Waddle ; 50 cases geneva, 3 bales sacks, Mitchell and Co ; 2 tanks malt, 1 bag do, 1 do, Calder and Co ; 1 bdl forks, 2 kegs nails. 3 boxes tin, 1 case, 1 pkg casting, 4 grindstones, 1 pkg plate iron, Hay Bros ; 30 cases geneva, 3 brls barley, 1 box billiard balls, Matheson and Co ; 1 trunk boots, 5 cases do, 1 case essence lemon, 1 case handles, 1 pkg twine, 14 kegs nails, 1 keg hammars. 1 case scythe stones, 1 cask tor, 4 drums do, J. Boss and Co ; 2 cases hardware, 1 cask horse shoes, 4 coils rope, It. Tapper ; 16 pkgs sugar, 1 pel saddlery, M'Pherson and Co : 10 bdls moulding, 9 cedar boards, E. Tapper ; 3 coils rope, Cowper ; 1 pel, Ekensteen & Hall. PASSENGEB UST. May 12 — Per Alhambra, from Melbourne — Saloon : Mrs M'Collough, and three in steerage. May 12 — Per Alhambra for Dunedin — Saloon : Mrs M'Naughton and two children, Mr Watt, and one in steerage. EXPECTED ABBIYALS. Southland from Dunedin 13th. - Auckland, from North 14th" Tararua, from North 17th. Bangitoto, foom Melbourne 20th. PROJECTED DEPABTTTRES. Southland, for Invercargill, and West Coast ports 13th. : Auckland, for Melbourne 14th. Tararua, for Melbourne, 17th, with Suez mails Bangitoto, for Norther Ports and Hokitika with Suez mail. .

The"M.A. N.Z. Steam Shipping Company's s.s. Alhanibra, John M'Lean Commander, left Melbourne at 5 p.m. 6th inst ; passed Swan Island at 10 p.m. 7th inst ; the SoLinder, at noon, 11th inst j arriving at Bluff wharf at 6 a.m. following piorning; during the first part of voyage met with light easterly, andlatter part, light westerly winds. 9

San Francisco news has been received from the Sandwich Islands to January 18th. The steamer brought ahout 400 toDs island produce, and her news is of much interest. By this arrival we learn of the loss of the three first-class American ships at the guano islands. These wrecks occurred as follows : The ship Lizzie Oakford, 1126 tons, Captain Roco, wrecked on Howland s Islands, September 25th, 1867, with 1300 tens of guano ; ship Minnehaha, 1696 tons, Captain Bursley, wrecked on Baker's Island, December 3rd, 1867 ; ship "Washington, 1071 tons, Captain Berry, lost on M'Kean's Island, December 4th, 1867, with 800 tons guano. There is no doubt that hurricanes are as liable to occur in certain regions of the Pacific as in the West Indies, and that they may be looked for only at particular seasons of the year. In the Carribean sea these violent gales are expected-from the Ist of August to the Ist of November, and the intervening months are known as the " hurricane months." Vessels bound for the Carribean Sea at that particular season are invariably compelled to pay higher rates of insurance. The hurricane region of the Pacific seems to obtain chiefly about the latitude and longitude of the guano islands ; violent gales may be expected from the Ist September to the middle of January. In point of intensity, the West Indian hurricttnes undoubtedly exceel ; but those of the Pacific are rendered quite as dangerous, by reason of inferior harbor securities. Some idea of the force of the gale which wrecked the foregoing vessels may be had from the fact that the barque Garstang, lying at anchor at one of the islands, was abondoned by her crew, under the impression that she would founder at her anchors. Sometimes she would be entirely submerged for several seconds. — " Tasmanian Times."