Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 463, 21 March 1867, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF NAPIER. A’D’DTTTATQ A **> *v x « A xi w • MAfiCH. KiL DEPAETUEES. MAECH. 20.—Ddphic, schooner, 17 tons. Schon, for ,*<«. o -casks. S cases. 3 casks, 1 DOX spies, a DOXtJb uauvura, chains, Grey ; 3 bullock chains, Holliman & Ferguson ; 3 packages ropsyarc, Walker: 1 bos tea, S mats s ugar, Powdrell; 4 bags hour, 1 box tea, 1 jja» sugar 1 tent, 1 axe, order; 4 bags Sour, 1, axe, 1 lioi tea, 3 mats sugar, 1 bag salt', 4 dishes, i 1 box candles, 3 iron buckets, 1 box soap, 1 camp oven, Maloney; I cask 1 mat loaf sugar, 1 truss rt«..nurr 1 ivtpl:;i rH oil, At/wnnl • 2 inns wlrp. 1 I S7l'p ; uccl' Passengers —Messrs. Pereiva! and| Dawson. —Watt Brothers, agents. j 30. —Tay, cutter, 14 tons, Gustavus llicherd,; for Wairoa, with 8 rams, Carroll,—Watt Brothers, agents. VESSELS EXPECTED. Betsy, cutter, from Auckland via Wangapoa Montmorency, ship, from Loudon (101 days out) VESSELS IN HARBOR, (In tho Iron Pot) Jason, schooner, from Sydney Mahia, cutter, from Waimarama Hero, cutter, from Auckland Hero, ketch, from the Coast Joanna, schooner, from Auckland Eagle cutter, from Auckland THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.

Ar* ocean yacht race of sufficient magnit acl c to. draw the sportive attention of a continent or two, is announced to come off on the lltli December. A contemporary of considerable enterprise and boundless bounce may be said to have the affair in tow, and if the great ocean yacht trial docs not become the event of a century, it will certainly be for no want of racy historians. The vessels— Henrietta, Vesta, and Fieeiwing—are to start from Sandy Hook for the marine light on the west end of the Isle of Wight, at one o’clock, amid the imagined cheers of the assembled hemispheres. Great sums of money and great principles of seamanship are. at stake; thousands and tens of thousands have been bet on this breezy contest. The yacht Henrietta enters this race perhaps a victim, and it may be to become a conqueror to the extent of the entrance fee of 30,000 dollars, but all land-lubbers must be impressed with the oceanic character of the sweepstakes. Mainsail, jib, flying jib, jib topsails, fore and gaff topsails, and other marine tackle and toggery, are talked o. ' as only amateur sailors can, with a perfect windiness, and hurricane of epithets that in these cloudy days of December must be the. wonder of your safe landsmen and the delight weather-beaten tars. There are as inauv a-- three agreements between the rival yachters—Messrs. Dennett, Osgood, and Lorillard; Commodore McVieur, of salt notoriety, is to be the umpire ; and Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, whose regret must be that he cannot enter a seahorse and carry oil' the stakes with Neptune as a jockey, is to hold the purse. By all accounts the race is to be as spirited as it is princely in its preparation and outlay. Ninety thousand dollars have been subscribed to the common fund, and a hundred thousand, at least, enter into the report in the form of wagers. On arrival olf the Hook the tugs east off, and as it wanted but a few minutes to one, the hour named for the start, there was but breathing lime before the signal gun from the tug on which the starter, Captain Bearing of the Rambler, was fired, and conveyed the order to make ready. At this time the ITcetwing lay well off the Hook, about a mile to eastward, the Vesta about midway between the Fleetwing and the beach, and the Henrietta! hugging the shore quite closely. Foresails and topsails rose nearly simultaneously, and almost before tbs wind had shaped (be canvas, the last whistle sounded—being the signal for the start. The yachts answered with a cloud of canvas, each paying olf handsomely wider mainsail, foresail, main-gaff topsail, and three jibs set. The wind was west by south-west, and brisk. The Vesta took the lead, the, Flectwing, as before stated, being well off lo the northward. The Henrietta, owing to the proximity to the shore, failed to catch (lie breeze until she got well from under the lee of the Hook, where she bore up heavily. Promptly after wearing, the Fleetwing hauled down her jibs and set her square-sail, the other yachts following suit as to the, square-sail, hut kept (heir jibs at stretch. The Fleetwood then set fore-topsail and jib. At this point, as the yachts went off like sca-gnlls, wing and wing before the wind, a prettier vision never gladdened the eye, and heart of a sailor. The. yachts stood equi-distnut from eacli other, with no apparent advantage to either, from our point of sight, and bearing directly in their course, E.N.E. The sun hidden for the last half-hour behind billows of fiery clouds which had arisen with the noon, now broke forth, and lent all the magic of his light to make the parting scend one to be remembered for ever and a day. Against a background of grey misty cloud curtaining the ocean limit to the eastward, the black specks of bulls and the white sails of the yachts seemed to rest motionless but for the occasional flickering of a sail as the breeze coquetted with it, and the lights and shadows flitted with the motion.—Home News.

The Henrietta arrived at Cowes at o v lo p.m. on the 23th December ; the Fleet wing at 2 a.m. on the 261 h ; and the Vesta at IVGO a,m. on the following flay. At Cowes the arrival of the yachts was looked to with great interest, and arrangements were in progress to celebrate the occasion in a befitting manner. A meeting of the inhabitants was held, rt which it was resolved that a banquet should he given to the yachtsmen upon their arrival. The authorities of Southampton, Hyde, Newport, Jtc., and the officers of Her Majesty’s ship Hector, now lying olf Osborne, were to be invited. The Home News thus announces the arrival of the winner : —“ The great ocean yacht race from New York to Cowes has been won by the Henrietta. She arrived off Cowes last evening, December 25, at 20 minutes to fi o’clock. Neither of the ether yachts was in sight. The Henrietta is the premerty of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the son of the proprietor of the New York Herald. She is described as being a most beautifully modelled schooner. She was not at first entered for the race—the match being made between the Vesta and the Fleetwing. However, on paying down her stake (30,000 dol’ars) she was admitted to the race, and, as we have seen, has won it.