SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 682, 9 July 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOKT. HIUU WATER. This Day ... 6.35 a.m., 7-8 p.m. To-morrow 7.40 a.m., 8.0 p.m. Monday ... 8.25 a.m., 8.48 p.m. ARRIVALS. July B—Kennedy, s.s., 126 tons, Whitwell, from Nelson. W. J. Willcock, agent. DEPARTURES. July 7—Three Friends, schooner, Riley, for Charleston. July B—Brothers and Sisters, schooner, Perkins, for Grey mouth. PASSENGER LIST. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—Mr and Mrs O'Conor, Mrs Cook and 3 children, Messrs Shannon, M'Pherson, Dunckley, Chamberlin, Brandon, Farrell, Hamilton, Builen, Norton, Gracie, Johnson, M'Caithy, Junglick, Burrell, Pickard, Max, and Hunter. IMPORTS. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—lo kegs butter, Powell; 3 trunks boots, 2 pkgs leather, Simpson; 1 cage hams, 20 kegs butter, Bailie and Humphrey; 2 cases drugs, Dr Thorpe; I bale leather, Peterson; 1 cask butter, 1 caso eggs, T. M'Kee; 3 trunks boots, Jackson; 1 case drapery,'l truss do, Graves; 20 kegs butter, Duff; 1 cask do, Simon; 4 hhds ale, Tonks and Hughes; 1 box eggs, Falla; 2 bdls sluice forks, Bailie and Humphrey ; 2 cases eggs, Simon ; I bag bacon, 2 kegs butter, 5 cases apples, Smyrk ; 2 kegs butter, Duff; 1 bdl trees, Falla; 1 do do, Carter ; 4 bags onions, Powell and Co.; 2 bdls plants, Jellicoe; 10 kegs butter, Smyth and Co.; 40 do do, 25 cases cheese, Bailie and Humphrey ; lo kegs butter, 1 case bacon, Paterson; 1 keg shot,2pcls, Field; 2 pkgs, Fleming ; 1 case drapery, Whyto and Pirie ; 1 do cigars, order ; 39 bags sugar, Bailie a d Humphrey; 1 pel, Whyte and Pirie; 38 bug sugar, 10 cases cheese, Smyth and Co.; 3 do eggs, 1 bag bacon, 1 case fowls, 3 bags cockles, BurreU ; 2 cases eggs, 1 bag bran, M'Kee ; 2 cases eggs, Snryrk ; 1 do do, 1 keg butter, Carpenter; 1 do do, 1 case eggs, Hay; truss leather, Collings ; 1 pel, Bishop ; 1 do Dollman ; 15 cases eggs, 3 do frnit, 2 bags onions, 12 kegs butter, 4 coops fowls, 4 cases eggs, Hunter; 1 pkg. Brown; 1 pel, Etenvaux ; 1 pel, Jones. EXPORTS. Per Standard, for Karamea and Little Wanganui —30 sacks flour, 20 do potatoes, 8 tierces beef, 8 kegs butter, 6 cases cheese, 4 half-chests tea, 20 mats sugar, 5 cases milk, 4 do brandy, 6 boxes candles, 4 cases hams and bacon, 2 do oysters, 3 do raisins, I cask currants, 4 boxes tobacco, 2 kegs vinegar, 1 cask dried apples, 2 bags oatmeal, 2 cases jams, 1 case coffee, 30 cases sundries, Stitt Bros. The s.s. Kennedy left Nelson on Thursday and arrived alongside the wharf, Westport, yesterday, at 4 p.m. She brings a large cargo for West Coast ports. The schooner Three Friends sailed for Charleston on Thursday with a full cargo. The ketch Standard will leave by first opportunity with a cargo for Karamea. The larger portion of the machinery for the steamer Charles Edward arrived in Nelson, per Tararua, on Thursday. The remaining portion is expected by the first boat from Melbourne, when she will resume the West Coast trade. The Union Company, have sold the Storm Bird to Messrs Freeth and Greig for .£2OOO. The above vessel will, we understand, be temporarily taken charge of by Capt. Daniels in Wellington, who has probably ere this received delivery on behalf of her owners. She will proceed to Wanganui at an early date, and from thence to the West Coast. The s.s. John Penn left Greymouth for Wanganui on Thursday, and is expected to arrive in Westport from the latter port tomorrow. The Russian Corvette Bazarin has sailed from Hobart Town for New Zealand. At the Auckland Police Court, on Friday, June 24 (says the New Zealand Herald), the master of the steamer Williams was charged with a breach of the rule of the road by starboarding instead of porting his helm when passing the Royal Alfred, thereby narrowly escaping a collision. The evidence was lengthy, but clearly showed the defendant to have been in error, and the Bench inflicted a fine of £IOO. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Nelson.—July 7 —Tararua, from Greymouth. Bluff. —July 7 —Gothenburg, from Dunedin. Geeymouth.—July 7 Rangitoto, from Nelson. Hokitika.—July 7—Rangitoto, from Greymouth. DEPARTURES. Hokitika.—July 7—Rangitoto, for" Melbourne. Bluff. —July 8 Gothenburg, for Melbourne. Nelson.—July B—Tararua, for Wellington. COMMERCIAL. THE WHEAT CROP IN CALIFORNIA. (San Francisco Bulletin, May 10.) The condition of the California wheat crop is beginning to excite alarm. After making due allowance for the usual amount of croaking incident to the season, and to those interested in the matter, we find it to be generally conceded that the present prospect for gathering a crop as large as the last one is exceedingly slim. There are those who aver this to be already impossible, no matter how much rain may be received, as the crop in some localities is utterly past redemption this season. Notwithstanding the increased area under cultivation, some parties think that if we get three-fourths of a crop, we shall do well; others fix the quantity at half a crop, and still others at one-fourth. In some localities the fears of a failure are so strong that farmers have already sent to the city to secure seed for next fall, under the impression that if the crop turns out as short as they think it will, seed can be secured now on much more favorable terms than w' en wanted. A gentleman who has been threshing extensively in Yolo county during tho past four years, gives a gloomy account of the wheat crop in that county, and says that his services will not be needed there thi • season. The cropin Santa Clara and Alameda counties, and in a portion of San Joaquin county—all large wheat growing districts—is generally admitted to bo unusually light, and in some places is already being cut for hay. The rains received last winter, though nearly up to the average in some places, were exceedingly deficient in others, whilo in very few counties was the ground moistened to any great depth. In the less favoured counties, the surface moisture has been generally absorbed, and

the healthy growth, of the grasses and grain has been suddenly checked. A continuance of seasonable showers (luring the past six •weeks, would have put an entirely different aspect on the present condition of the crops. Quito au interval has elapsed since the last general rain; and the appearance of the country, eveu in the most favored spots, is beginning to show the effect of the summer heat. The season is now too far advanced to expect much rain, or to anticipate much f o >d to the crop from rain in the districts where its abßei.ce has been most sit rely felt. In the northern and some of the n.H-th-eastern comities, seasonable rains will be of great service. A. letter just received from Napa states that the wheal crop in that county is looking fine. Advices from the adjoining county of Sonoma are also favorable. The section can generally be depended upon for good crops, for it always has its full share of moisture. Since the abovo was written, we have seen a letter from Salinas Valley, -which gives a doleful account of the present condition and future prospects of the crops in that section, predicting absolute distress as the result.