BLUFF HARBOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14655, 24 January 1912, Page 6

BLUFF HARBOUR.

S.S. DELPHIC ENTERS. . Per Press Association. INYERCARGILL. Jan. 23. In view of the doubt which at one time prevailed as to whether the s..s. Delphic would come to the Bluff with her record cargo for that port of 3-100 tons, the "Bluff Press" interviewed Captain English, master of the vessel, who brought her safe'.v in. Captain English .'.aid he was nleasod to find that everything be. had heard about the unsafety of tlio port was more or le.;s exaggerated. He said .'T found nothing d'fficult in the approach to ; Bluff harbour, and it was hi no way difficult of navigation excepting perhaps that at times in these latitudes one may expect boisterous weather. The entrance to Bluff harbour possesses some of the finest landmarks one could find in nnv part of the world. , Oog Island I/'uhthouso and Bluff iteelf both are splendid marks for locating th« entrance. A clear passage with plenty of water extends from the fairwav buoy at the entrance up to tli9 middle reach, and although comparatively narrow there is plenty of room for the Inmost shins to enter in perfect safntv at the nroner state of the t : de. wirch is the first stream of tho el.b.'' lie described the soundings which he had personally made, and siu/L'csted detail imnrevenients by which he said niuff harbour, bring so handily « : .tnatpd. could be made ono of the finest harbours in New Zealand.