BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Issue 3301, 18 January 1879, Page 2

BLUFF HARBOR.

~ ~ ARRIVED. ' ~* J January 17.—Sarah and Mary, brigantine, 164 tons, Smith, from Greymouth. J. Waddell & Co., agents. ■-'"'•<■ SAILED. January 17.—Nightingale,, cutter, for.Stewarts Island. IMPORTS. Per Sarah and Mary—lB2 tons coal; 10 do, coke; 4000 fire bricks—J. Waddel & Co., consignees. ExpBCTEn arrival. ; Western Monarch, ship, from London, Oct. 30 • Captain Smith, of-the brigantine Sarah and Mary, reports leaving Greymouth on Sunday, the 6th inst., meeting a very heavy sea when crossing the bar, carrying away part of the bulwarks and doing other damage. Was knocking about off the Grey for eight days, the baffling nature of -the wind preventing progress. Got light N. winds to- Thompson's Sound, running nto a heavy southerly gale on "the 12th. The gale lasted tUI midday of the-15th, driving him .120 niiles.to the N.W; On the afternoon of 15th fine wind from westward came in, enabling him to run in for Straits.. Sighted West Cape at noon on 17th. passed Solander at 9 p.m. and ran down to Bluff under easy sail till daylight, arriving as above. The -Drover's cargo having come forward more rapidly of late, she has now her hold full and is taking in deck cargo. Should the weather prove favorable she wUI leave port to-day. There is nothing doing bn board the Firefly, her cargo not' having come forward as yet. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Port Chalmers, Jan. 17. The barque Ethelbert, which arrived at the Heads last evening, from Newport, South Wales, brings a fuU cargo of railway materials. Her passage from home has occupied 105 days and been rather an eventful one, as for the space of thirty-six hours she waß; in imminent danger of being: crushed, no less than one hundred large icebergs, with immense fields of, broken ice, having been passed through during that period. She met the ice in lafc. 431-. S. and the long, of Greenwich, and cleared it by standing to the northward. Wellisgto'n, Jan. 17. The s.s. Taiaroa, with the 'Frisco mail, arrived afc daylight and left again shortly after seven. She took the following passengers for; the South:—MesdamesNorthcroft and JLowry, Miiss Richmond, Messrs Cayeshill, Collins, Marks, ShaWj DumbeU, arid Moore. VW - : v V . Lyttelton,- Jan. 17; : Gleared—-Antares, for London, with cargo valued at £68,000. ;