CANTERBURY.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 375, 28 May 1861, Page 4

CANTERBURY.

(From the Lyttelton Times, May. 18.}7

Yesterday tbe last and finest of the wool ■hips of this season left the anchorage, bearing with her to London a cargo of Canterbury produce valued at £90,000. The splendid clipper Blue Jacket, Captain James White, is a worthy representative ol the increasing commerce of this port, which only five years ago thought it creditable to despatch in the season one barque. Of moderate size. In all commercial and shipping circles at home the noted name of ' Blue Jacket' in connexion with a full cargo from Canterbury will serve to call attention to the exporting powers of this place such as could scarcely be gained in any other way. At a lit';le after daybreak yesterday morning, Captain White tripped his anchor, and fired a gun, followed by a salute of.seven guns, and stood down the harbour with the tide and very light air in his favour. Both tide and wind failed before the Blue Jacket cleared the heads, and Captain White accordingly brought up during the afternoon, so that this fine ship has scarcely yet quite parted from us. The declared value of the wool shipped is set dowi) at £88,497, but this is only a rough, calculation. The official value, reckoning 1,328,160 lbs., at Is. 4d., is £88,550 14s.\ and this is plainly below the mark. The wool shipped this season has been—per Mermaid, 2718 bales, 934,490 lbs. weight, £67,950 declared value: per Evening Star, 1639 bales, 596,520 lbs. weight, £37,642 declared value: per Blue Jacket, 3612 bales, 1,328,260 lbs. weight, £88,491 declared value : total 7969 bales, 2,859,870 lbs. weight, £194,083 declared. And the total declared value of the three cargoes, including sundries, has been £126,934. Some wool has also been . shipped to Australia. The many friends whom Captain White has made throughout the province during his two visits to this port will be delighted to welcome his return a third time next year in command of the same or still finer vessel of the same clipper fleet. The nomination of a candidate to repre-J sent the district of Akaroa in the Provincial Council took place on Thursday last, the 16th inst., at the Court house;, Akaroa. The Returning Officer, Mr. j. Watson, having read the writ and opened the proceedings, Mr. R. DOyly proposed Mr. James Edward FitzGerald as a fit and proper person to represent the district in the Provincial Council. This nomination was seconded by Mr. S. Gibbs. No other candidate having been proposed, the Returning Officer declared Mr. FitzGerald duly elected. The writ was returned to the Superintendent yesterday morning. MARKETS.-r-The grain market .at Christchurch is hardly so firm a 9 it has been. White wheat, ss. 6d. to 6s. per bushel; red wheat, ss. 3d. toss. 9d,; barley, ss. 6d. to 65.; oats* 3s. to 3s. 6d.; potatoes, £3 10s. to £4 per ton. There is a decline in wheat at Kaiapoi of 3d. to 6d. per bushel. White wheat, ss. to ss. 9d.; red wheat, ss. to ss. 3d.; barley, ss. to 65.; oats, 3s.