PORT OF NAPIER.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 272, 12 April 1862, Page 5

PORT OF NAPIER.

','.' .V ■",,". ABBIVED. April 9rAPo&e ; /Sia»v schooner, 56 tons, G. Eaton, from Auckland, with 10,000 ft. timber, order : 5 tons flour, 1 case brooms, Sutjton; 3 tons flour, Stuart, Kinross, & Co.v7.;oases merchandise, 19 pieces iron, Doitsh & Henrys .10 bags sugar, 2 pckgs., J, Stuart ; 2 bundles leather,.. 1- trunk, 1 bale, Richardson ; 45 pckgs. merchandise, 10 bags sugar, Newton, Irvine, & Co. ; 17 pekga. sundries, 2 hhds. ale, 1 qr.-cask port wine, Marshall; 12 mats sugar, 2 chests tea, 1 package coffee, E. lyon; ,8 bags seed, 1 box rabbits, Major Whitmore ; 1 hnd.ale, 2 pckgs., Le Quesne; 2 hhds. ale, 1 cask seed, 1 stove, 80 pckgs. merchandise, 1 ton flour, SO boxes glass, Boylan ; 2 cases brandy, 1 do. port, 2 do. sherry, Officers' mess ; 9 tons stores, Commissariat ; 10 parcels, order; 8 bales and 1 case paper, J. Wood; 1 cask porter, St. Hill ; 30 sheep, H. S. Tiffen, (ex Plying Cloud;) 6 hhds. ale, 1 hhd. brandy, 1 case merchandise, J. Marshall.^Passengers, — Mrs. Smith and 7 children, Messrs. Miller; Brown, Dudridge, Courtenay. — Master, agent. The clipper schooner Pole Star has again made a rapid passage from Auckland, having only been four days from port to port, including a dajrs detention at the'Mercurys, and half a day hove to off Portland Island. The schooner left Auckland on Friday the 4th inst., at 6 p.m. On the following day, having encountered a strong head wind, at 9 p.m, put in to Mercury harbor, where she lay till Sunday at 4 p.m. Just 24 hours after (Monday at 4 pjn.,). she rounded the East Cape; and next morning at 9 was off Portland Island. She then caught a fierce souther and was hove to till 3 p.m., when, the weather moderating, she made sail to work up. Next morning, caught a spanking nor-east breeze which brought her flying into port. She entered the harbour on Wednesday at 2 p.m. . . The schooner Flying Fish, Captain Cellum, with 30 passengers from Ocago for Coromandel, put in to the roadstead oh Thursday morning for a supply of provisions, and resumed her voyage yesterday morning. She was 14 days from Otago, three of which were spent in Lytteltbn harbour, and three in knocking about off Kidnappers during the late gale. The Phoenix, steamer, nence the 29th ult., arrived in Auckland on the Ist inst., having previously landed her passengers in Coromandel harbour. The American Beujgeeestts iir Ettrope.— A good deal of excitement has been caused in England by the movements of two or three American vessels, from a suspicion that their commanders will succeed by some means or ' other in involving us in a new controversy with the Federal Government. Our readers will recollect that .the Confederate vessel Nashville arrived a considerable time ago at Southampton with the crew of a Federal'merchantman, which she had burnt to the water's- edge. The Nashville was allowed to enter the docks to obtain afew necessary repairs, but, in accordance witlitTte English proclamation of neutrality, strict orders jy ere given" that no warlike equipment would be permitted. Soon afterwards, the Tuscarora, a Federal sloop of arrived in the Southampton Water, for the purpose of looking after the Nashville. These two vessels have since • been playing a game of hide-and-seek and causing no cud of annoyance to the authorities, who have apprehended on several occasions a breach of the peace. 'As no one can tell what may be the purposes of the antagonists, the Admiralty, through the superintendent at' the "port, has informed, each belligerent that he cannot be allowed to leave within 24 hours of his enemy, should rtheyenemy leave first The Admiralty has also taken the-necessary measures to enforce this decision. Orders have been transmitted to Captain Wilcox, who commands the' Dauntless /81, screw steam- frigate, off Southampton, to stop whichever of the belligerents begins the pursuit of the other within the prohibited time. The TViscarora'is armed" with nine heavy guns. The Nashville has but two guns of inferior calibre. While . these'liwo vessels are looking at each other, thoConfe- '"■■ deratecruiser, the Sumter— which, as her captain writes to the (Dimes, is not a privateer, but a regularly commissioned ship of war of the Confederate States— has been/eiigaged in : several daring exploits. The first of theso^asjnei*. escape from a Federal man-of-war, the Iroquois, which had been sent to watch her while at .'"'■ Martinique. Here the' captain of the Iroquois was wir \ thin! aifi&ceibf- drawing the fire of a French man-of-war, as h,e#knted'iib > 'starfc in pui'suit of the Sumter without the iisual 24 hpurs' notice. T^he Sumter was, next heard , of at Gadiv'pff which port she arrived on January 5, with

the officers and crew, 42 persons in all, of three Federal merchant vessels, which she had destroyed at sea. She solicited permission to enter the port or Cadiz, and her request was granted, in spite of a protest by the American consul. The Spanish Government, however, issued strict orders to prevent her taking arms and ammunition on board. In a few days the Sumter was off again ; and, although no fewer than six Federal frigates are said to have been sent after her, she has-hitherto contrived to elude them. A telegram from Gibraltar, dated January 18, stated that the Sumter was cruising about three leagues to the eastward of that place, that she had two barques in tow, and that she had burnt the American barque Neapolitan, of Kingston, from Messina for Boston, with fruit, but had allowed the American brig Investigator, for Newport, with ore, to proceed. Another telegram from Algiers, dated the 22nd, stated that on the 20th a prolonged cannonade was heard there, proceeding apparently from a distance of about six miles' out at sea ; and that a vessel was sighted that morning which appeared to be the Sumter. It was supposed that she had sunk her adversary. A third telegram, which comes to us from Genoa, says that the Sumter was seen, on January 24 a few leagues off that port. — Home News, Jan. 27.