Shipping Record. PORT OF NAPIER.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 7, Issue 462, 6 February 1864, Page 6

Shipping Record. PORT OF NAPIER.

ASBTVED. February*— Star ofthe South, s.Sp 120 tons, Hodges, from Auckland. Passenger, Mr. Le Quesne.— The Napier will clear this day for London, via Nelson, with between 400 and COO bales wool on board. In addition to the troop ships, the following had arrived at Auckland,— ship Ullcoats, John Duncan, and Boyal Stuart from London. The latter was boarded on tho voyage by the Federal war steamer Vanderbilt, which had been in quest ofthe Alabama for the last 18 months. The Captain of the John Duncan gives the following account of the incident:- -On the Bth November, at 8 p.m., fell across a large steamer, which hailed and ordered the John Duncan to heave to or he would fire into her. Captain Logic paid no attention to the threat but kept way on his ship, when a boat, with an armed crew pulled alongside, the officer in command stepping on board, and intimating that he came from the Federal Steam frigate Yanderbilt. Capt. Logic inquired his business which of course was sufficiently obvious. The officer was exceedingly civil (as most American naval officers are), for he must at once have seen the character of the ship, as he did noD even ask to inspect her papers. He informed Capt. Logic that the Vanderbilt was last from St. Helena, and then bound for Rio to coal, obligingly adding that if any person on board had letters they wished to send to England, he would safely deliver them to the British Consul uponhis arrival at the Brazils. "We need hardly say a small mail was immediately made up, upon the receipt of which, and a large collection of English newspapers, the officer took his departure, and the Vanderbilt sailed away under a full head of steam. The Vanderbilt is described as a fine clipper p-ddle steamer, barque rigged, and evidently an ugly customer. The steam ship Otago had arrived in Auckland from Sydney, but without the English mail. Among her passengers was Capt. Vine Hall, the General manager of the I.R. M.S'. Co. The Ida Zeigler, a full ship with wool and other produce, had sailed from Auckland for London. The Corio had arrived from Tauranga, and was sent back with despatches.