There has been a curious little complication over another international trophy—the Cape May Cup—but fortunately this 28 quite unaccompanied by anything remotely resembling ill-feeling. The Cup was won in America by Sir Richard Sutton's yacht Genesta in 1885, and brought to England. Subsequently the American cutter Navahoe challenged for the cup, and it was successfully defended by the present King's yacht Britannia on behalf of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Subsequently the Britannia was sold to Mr. Lawson Johnston, who was not a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and according to the rules of most international yacht races the enp_ should have been handed over to the R. Y. 8.
But it wasn't; and when recently Commodore Plant, of the Ingomar, challenged for the cup it could not be found. Then, when th of this particular contest came '1 fne looked into, it was ford that on the winning yacht being sold out of the R. Y. 8. the cup ought to have been returned not to them hut to the Now York Yacht Club, and that consequently Mr. Platt's challenge was issued under a mistake. [tis now announced that the cup has been duly sent to New York; but I hear it hinted that the King utterly failed to discover the cup, and that the trophy sent across the Atlantic is a new cup supplied by his Majesty place, with the consent of the New York Yacht Club.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.