SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

Western Star, Issue 1, 15 November 1873, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

’ ... , —:0: Port of Eiverton;

si;' .... ARRIVED. , Neverrtbbr 9;—James Paxton, schobhev; 61 . tons; Eobertson, from Bluff Harbour. imports; f 7 , J:.. Per James Paxton —Transhipments from Mel- . Bourne—9, cases tobacco,.! case drapery, 2 drums . bil, Whittingbam Bros, and Instone j 1 qr.-tierce tobacco, 2 eases do., 80 mats sugar, 2 bags twine, "18 begs bails, 20„ cases kerosene, 1 case - sago, J. L. McDonald; rchests tea,. B7 mats sugar, 5 ’ bales sacks, John Wilson and Co. Free and duty paid : . So boxes' sOap, 4-bags nee*. 1 ease ale, 12,000 ft. timber, Whittingbam Bros, and Iniitone ; 26 packages sundries, order; Port of Bluff Harbour. . . ■ ARRIVED; > brbvbmbßr sjs., 1.01 tons, leys; ' from Dunedin. . Passengers: Miss Eourke, Messrs. • Holtbouse, Keith, Tilmore; and four in the < steerage. ..... | . Wanganui, s.s., 179 tolls, Fraser, from DiirieI ilia. Passengers : Mrs. Eva and two children, I Mr. and Mrs. Brodrick and child, Miss Thomson, I Mr. and Mrs. Oldham, Miss Congener, Messrs. I: Caldc'f, Pole; AttWoo'd (2),. Stoho, Dawsont M'Callum, Tayldr j and 39 immigrants from f .Lady Jocelyn: ;. / , L’ _ . _ sailed; ~ NcWehiher S; —Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for Dunedin. Passengers :. Messrs; Oallagher, Sutton (3),. Burnes, Taylor, Dawson, Brodrick, . Hfiyman, Montgomery, Drown, Jackson, Smith, jlobiuson; Mrs. Hay, Miss. Dalgleish, Mrs. .Calder, JJr, Webster. .... fi November 13.—Waflabi, sis., Id! toils, Leys, for Dunedin. - Port of Invercargill. ( .arrived; f ', Hbvemh'ef 14.—Friendship, schodndv; 53 iolisj Ffkncis, from Dunedin with floua. ipidWrtONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS IW BOUND TO EIVEETON. X The Entrance to this port being intricate, a> ‘ iltfanger should not, under any circumstances, attempt to sail in without a pilot, but should make fast to the mooring buoy painted black, which is., placed in twenty-one feet at low waiter spring' tides with the following hearings I Stilbp Head, S:E; by E. . .. North-west end of Stewart’s Island, Oil. with Howell’s Point, S. by W. half N. The flagstaff on Bailey’s Point, W. half N. -x . The mooring anchors, of this, buoy are placed four hundred and fifty feet, apart, cast and west r from each other on each side of the buoy ; care should be taken iii dropping an anchor near by, hot to hook the moorings. _ . Between sunrise and sunset, the following ' Signals will M made at the flagstaff, on Bailey’s Point, viz. When a vessel is approaching the harbor a mimhef from Marryat’s code indicating in feet be hoisted at the north yard arm. , A black ball hoisted above this number will short that the sea is too high on the bar for the pilot to gdt o:f) ! ; ■ M> . .. .. , Turn black balls without the number will mean that gome recent change has taken place in the channel, or that it is dangerous in the opinion of the pilot even for a coaster with the place to attempt to run in; . , , - Vessels outside -the bar, or at the mooring ’ -buoy, when, the pilot cannot get off, may hold communication with him by means of Marryat’s signals, which in this cage will he hoisted at the South yartl aim; ...... The pilot, Who is. provided with a boat and brew of four nien, will, when it is. practicable, always put off in bis boat on the approach of H, vessel not h&ving the exemption flag flying. , • .The depth Of water on the bar is, at the ■ Jiiglust tides fourteen feet, and there is rarely less than eight feet at high water, lowest neap tides*.