PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Issue 1223, 15 March 1870, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF HARBOR.

■SAHTO. March 23— 'Victoria, "barque, 372 tons, Jaeobsen, for London. and Co., ragents. IXPOBTS. V Per Victoria, for London — 340 bales wool, I "MThewon andVCo'V-J '16 do,' Whittingham "■Bros. ; 14 do, Peter Grant ; 97 do, J. Stock and Co; 32 do, Cochran aid Blackwood; 101 do, Bare, Pratt end Co ; 1 60 do, Driver, Maclean end Co ; 544 do, H. J. Gibbs and Co ; 611 do, Calder, Blscklock and Co— total, 19G6 bales. Tbe barque Victoria, the second wool ship this season, cleared at the Customs on Saturday, and, sailed for London on Sunday morning, the 13th. j The barque Sea Wave is alongside the -#barf, , and has received the first 80 bales of'her eargo.f Phe will be followed by the fine "iron ship; Harvest Home, -which loaded here "last year.; She sailed from Port Chalmers on Saturday, and; will, no doubt, arrire here in the course of a dayj •or bo. j During the last twenty'five yea's the -port of; Sydney and neighboring colonies "haTe been' visited by many clipper ships whose passages, : recorded from time to time, hav6 shown the great adTancement that has resulted from the improve--.menr in the art of shipbuilding ; hut it'hae fallen to the lot of Captain Tile, of the "Patriarch, which arrived yesterday from london, *to totally eclipse anything that has hitherto been made the latter port and -Sydney. He has •made a passage ; not merely taking his date from land to land, but actually bringing London journals to 4th December, *which gives 'his passage as being accomplished in 67 days. The Patriarch is an iron ship, built by Walter Hood, of Aberdeen, and is replete -with all the -newest improvements. Her lines to •the shipwright's eye would appear symmetrical ip ?the highest degree, ber ends are beautifully fine, and, as evidenced by^ 'her. large cargo, her carrying- capacity is proportionate t*o ber tonnage. — -Sydney Morning Eermld, "February 11. _