SHIPPING NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 163, 18 February 1854, Page 6

SHIPPING NEWS.

ARRIVED. Feb. 11, brigantine Despatch, 139 tons, Rogers, from Otago and Timaru. CLEARED OUT. Feb. 16, cutter Catherine Ann, 16 tons, Clifford, for Wellington. IMPORTS. In the Despatch, —part of original cargo, Swinbouvue; 53 bales wool, R. aud G. Rhodes. Vessels laid on t for New Zealand.— From the Home News of Oct. 4.— Stately for Otago, Wellington, and Canterbury; Eagle for Wellington, Nelson, and Canterbury ; Duke of Portland for Otago, Wellington, and Nelson ; Nelson (steamer) for Nelson, and Wellington ; Artemisia for New Plymouth, and Auckland ; Lady Clarke for Auckland, and New Plymouth. A notice in the Empire states that "The Kangaroo," the first ship of the Australian Pacific Mail Steam-Packet Company vid New Zealand and Panama, " will most probably arrive in this colony at the latter end of January or the beginning* of February, and will be laid on for New Zealand and Panama with all necessary despatch."

Christchurcii Market, Feb. 11.—The continuance oi the fine harvest weather prevents the attendance of the agriculturists at the market. The crops are being got in with satisfactory promptitude, and the forebodings as to the scarcity of labour has not, we are happy to say, been realized. There were some very fine samples of wheat and barley exhibited to-day, but little business was however done, and we are unable to quote any amount of transactions. There appears an unwillingness on the part of folders to sell at present. Wheat and barley \?ere nominally, 10s. per bushel; Oats, 6s. to Bs. Butter is in deimud at an advance, Is, 4d. to is. Cd. per Ib.