CORRESPONDENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 4381, 3 November 1888, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

a THB POUT OF TIMABU.

TO THE B.DITOR OF THB TIJHRO HBRALD. ■ IK, -C'aptai • rcott, of the harquu C.urosmarc,' before- leavi'.i; 'lin.aru exprrssi-o through your columns the highly favoun'le opinion be hail forilc<l of the i r aru h,irb<ur as a plnca "f secua anchorage for ves-els I ih'.uid hie to endorse hi» opinion, and to say that 1 havefjund the port a thoroughly -ale one as safe as any harbour I have been in, 60 that mast-ra of ships need have no henituncy in bru ging tl eitjv. s^eln hese. Whe'i I kr.ew I wan coming to Titn-iru I fea'ed, from various rumour* 1 had heard, that the uort I was bound for had not tbe best of ch.r'acterj, but after a stay of threa weeks here I can affirm that all such runours are groundless. for the eake of the port, I, as mss'er of a large, ship, wish b-f.ire leaving to express t! e d. cided conviction that your haitiour requires only to he k.owu in order to -dis-ipate thoroughly oil the w.ong idea« that m»i t.e afloat with regard to its Becurily 1 take tlii- opporiunily, too, to exprers my thanks for tbe courtesy of the harhour ofE ials aud of the stutionmaster, and f r the ability «;d attention ot the harbourmaster, Capiain Clarkson. I am, &c, Jambs Obaikoee Master, Inchkeith.