BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Issue 3419, 5 June 1879, Page 2

BLUFF HARBOR.

-'■ ''• ■-■ "' '■" '• : AKRiyED. -V ■■' -■ . ,- -■■'■ -•' ' ■ ■■••■: ■..SyiiiJc/i .:E3,nfaj.an.- ■■.-'■ June4— Mary Jane, cutter, from Stewart^ Island. '■" i- ' ii K 0 I-:. ■ ' -M'"x. SAILED. •■{ June 4r-Tauranga, setiooner, 61 tons, Han- . ing,forStewflittlsland;::iMaster,-agenl>.A; The ) barque: Abbey iHplme- -was ;engaged.yesterdayin : taking, ia -cargo, and. fa.^nQw-. nearlyfnllj;onlysome : 300 bags ibeingrequireft;. to completeiher loadings. i ;: ■ .-.i.-^y^'L" :■-. ; Theischobner Cat^^AyaslaidiPn^tliehb.^ach,' yesterday, and when the tide fell took in % quantity of sand as ballast j ; and will 'sail firat opportunity..^ynijr;op '' T . •/.'>.: >7V' ';■-> ■■ > a < :1 ;- J> f i V:-: : t lii * As an evidence of the-iaereasirig productive power of the provmce, the condi^ipni of -the, -rariorts sheds. zase<li^£oTi stQtinSig^^BVi iere should ibe most satisfactory .-.every shed, including the available portion of the railway shedj l bteing^completely blockedt np> with ; ' grain, notwithstanding ;'• the^ 'heavy '^weekly shipments; and/ I;he/fact} that \sey^ral ; vessels ••"' havealready been loaded from. this'port. At present^there are oyer f i9,obo'saoks of grain stored here.Tawaitirlfr ishipment, t and ;every toain arriving still continues to bring forward large consignments. -■' The action of |he jßarbor Board.in extending the whaif will -be of the utmost lienefit; to the port in , vif t - only on this account, for .there can belittle 1 ! doubt that a.u immense iyear,ly;increa.se.in'.the quantity of grain coming fprward for shipment will be the resultiof^he construction of the new f lines of rail, opening up as they do sueh JJ trac^s T& ; country i' -While' upon the topic 'of railways; it would gratify the cimosity of many^ of. your readers if the motives influencing thY conduct' of ' the promoters of: the Waimei-' Plains 1 r^flway in sendingcthe ship Oregqn, ..to -Dunedin to dis- - charge could be explained. On the- face of it^ it iSeemsiian jabgutdity to sen.d. a large, ressel to Dunedin when-the whole of heri carg(t<w:as.Sateiided f or; Bluf f, and *is actually; being transhipped -to, that .port, in aperfect fleet of coasters. 'If ! any \d6ubt' existed as to tiie draught iofo.tHe-jyessel being too-great to: permit herxbeing saf el^berthed in tlus^port, we can safely^sseit tliat siie, would have been able to make fast -tiythe 1 wharf without) delay, and fill tHe expense of tTanshipment avoided. In proof jof this.,assertion, r we. may state that the i^itMJßfl^W^^^^^ 2 .^!'.^ 8 . made fast to the wharf immediately on her #* aMval, and has never touched ground, even inth6.^wes'trtides.jTltis,.;tp:-b'e'hoped-;that» wheh^tM'cap^MtiyHof^tlie^ort'beddme^^ better known, .we shall hear no more of Bluff" cargoes beirig"\ke4rfi to perhaps 1 less accessible ports. „..,,_ ■,„,-_ . y . „ A committee 1 which hais been 'appointed by the Senate of th^ pnited^States^ to,, legislate* on the subject of .yejlow fevef^ aris'so suggest measures for its prevention, have, in their report to the ; Senate, recommended that a sum of 200.000 dois. be appropriated for the construction of a steel ship.Jfitfed-with refrigerating machinery, in accordance with, .^the, plans submitied'ljy Professor John Gamgee, which ship is to be used at ~Sew Orleans and other southern ports ! f of the purp6se ; of disinfecting ships by means of artificial freezing. Expeyts all agree 1 {hah cold the germs .pfjithcOterxiblei. disease, .whiphhifc is: feared will again, afflict the. South .during the coming season. ''l^ is _beKevea that artificial cold can be so rapidly "produced, that a 3000---ton ship may be thoroughly disinfected within six hours. The details of "how the cold is to be conducted jfrpmj its reservoir in tbis/steel ship to the vessels .brought alongside for'disinfection are not' stated,' but we" anticipate that great difficulties will". be encountered, and much expense involved' in' the" operation. The bill appropriating; this sum of 200,00,0 dolp. was passed by the Senate on April 1. — Shipping ' News :' '-* i: I' -■"''■ ••■'• ■■'■' ; : ! • • ■■• ■■ In the Commqn Pleas; Division, London, on 17th March, before Lord Justice Bramwell and Mr Justice Lopes, the case of Pellasjv the Neptune Insurance Company came up. It.was an action upon a policy of insoYairce for £300 effected upon the vessel Troubadour by a person named Harris, and afterwards " assigned to the plaintiff. The amount of the policy became due, and the . defendantsj.pffered to pay £260, but claimed to retain £40* in respect of the same amount due from Harris to them for premiums upon other policies. The 31 and 32 Vie, cap. 86, an Act to erable cs.sigp.ees. of:, marine policies to sue thereon in their own names, said that a defendant so sued should be entitled to make any' defence ; that he would- be entitled to make i£ the action had been brought Tin the name of the assured. The question raised on the [trial/ bef ore Lord Coleridge was whether the defendants were entitled to deduct the £40 .from .the plaintiff's claim, and he held that they were so entitled, and directed a verdict for the defendants. ' The question now was -whether r thei;e should be a new trial, : upon the I {gfdtiiidi 'that ."His Lordship ought to have ruled the other way. Mr Justice Lopes, in giving; judgment; s,ii:l that it "was con- • tended by the plaintiff that the defendants could only raise such a defence as arose upon the policy, and not any defence outside the policy, but the Court thought that there was no such* limit upon the meaning of the word " deiencj?s' v in^the^ statute. The rule was lier6fof : eCdischarged;-^ShippingiNeWs.

f^T'-y^: i^WKLMNGTON, June 4. A^veii^EpjßTfffKeWj-barciue, frorii London, af ter a-^gaissage^f .'^s „.days. .During it a seaman^iamedi.Ci Jordan fell from the forelopsail^OTd^toijthe'deCk, arid was killed instantaneousty^'"" xj: '''* car " i ' ''''. :'"' ~ " ~ — The. schooner Shepherdess still holds together., All : , her cargo has been discharged, and she will probably be sold as she lies. ; . .;u ;,::--,;;: Hokitika, June 4. ■ The, : steamer , Kennedy,, wlifch got on the Spit, managed to ; get off last night. ; She will go to < Nelson for repairs. :.! ; .... ,.. y ! Port Chalmers, June 4. Sailed — Arawata, .s'.s.,. for Melbourne, viii Bluff ; Star of the South, s,s., for Bluff ; "East Lothian^ ship, for Newcastle. deared— Batques •Buttermere' - andi Crossfield for 'London, and' Both well; Castle for Capetown^all prpduc'ejladen.; V