PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Issue 951, 15 May 1868, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

AEEIVED. May 12 — Alhambra, 496 tons, John M'Lean, from Melbourne. Dalgety and Co. agents. SACLED. May 12 — s.s. Alhambra — M'Lean, for Dunedin. Dalgety and Co. agents. IMPOBTS. Per Alhambra — 30 cases brandy, H. T. "Ross ; 2 pair axles, 18 three leg pots, 6 ovens and doors, 1 case tackSj 3do hardware, 2 bdls rope, 7 coils do, 3 bdls waggon hoops, 300 spokes, E. Cowper' J_case_saddlery, Galletlx ;— J — e£H 'k" bardwarepT case do, STpkgs do 7 Ekensteen k HaU ; 10 bales sacks, 63 baga 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 -pig casting, 4 grindstones, 1 pkg plate iron, Hay Btob j 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 teg hammars, 1 case scythe stones, 1 cask tor, 4 drums do, J. Ross and Co j 2 cases hardware, 1 cask horse Bhoes, 4 coils rope, R. Tapper ; 16 pkgs sugar, 1 pel saddlery, M'Pherson and Co : 10 bdls moulding, 9 cedar boards, R. Tapper; 3 coils rope, Cowper; 1 pel, Ekensteen & HaU. PjiSSEKOEB I.TST. May 12 — Per Alhambra, from Melbourne — Saloon : Mrs M'CoUough, and three in steerage. May 12— Per Alhambra for Dunedin — Saloon : Mrs M'Naughton and two chUdren, Mr Watt, and one in steerage. EXPECTED ARBrVAIS. Southland from Dunedin 13th. Auckland, from Nonh 14th* Tararua, from North 17th. Rangitoto, foom Melbourne 20th. jPBOJECTED DEPABTTT&eS. Southland, for InvercargiU, and West Coast ports 13th. j Auckland, for Melbourne 14th. . Tararua, for Melbourne, 17th, with Suez maUs -Rangitoto, for Norther Ports and Hokitika j with Suez^ mail.

•The MA. N.Z. Steam Shipping Company's s.s. Alhambra, John M'Lean Commander, left Melbourne at 5 p.m. 6th inst; passed Swan Island at 10 p.m. 7th inst ; the Solander, at noon, 11th inst ; arriving at Biuff wharf afc 6 a.m. foUowing morning ; during the first part of voyage met with light easterly, andlatterparfc, light westerly winds.

* San Francisco news has been received from the Sandwich Islands to January 18tb. The steamer brought aboufc 400 tons- island produce, and her ! news is of much interest. By this arrival we learn of tlie loss of the three first-class American ships afc the guano islands. These wrecks occurred as foUows : The ship Lizzie Oakford, 1126 tons, Captain Roco, wrecked on Howland's Islands, September 25th, 1867, with 1300 tons 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 ia no doubfc that hurricanes are as liable to occur in certain regions of the Pacific as in the West Indies, aud thafc they may be looked for only at particular seasons ofthe year. In the Carribean sea these violent gales are expected from the Ist of August to tho Ist ot November, and the intervening months are known as the " hurricane months." Vessels bound for the Carribean Sea at that particular season are invariably compeUed to pay higher ratea 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 hurricanes 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 fore-

going 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."