The San Francisco mail, which arrived last week, brought samples (says the Lyttelton Times) of the cargo of wheat shipped by the Highland Light from San Francisco to Sydney. It is a fine, well-grown, clean wheat, comparing most nearly with -Canterbury White Tuscan. The samples may he seen at the Corn Ex change by those interested in the shipment. The price laid clown at ship's side in Sydney is equal to 4s 2|d per bushel, a figure below that at which Canterbury ■wheat can now be landed there; but in view of the facts that a long time must necessarily elapse before further supplies can be obtained from so great a distance as California, and that the shipment in question goes directly into the hands of the millers, it is very improbable that the new venture will have any influence in the near future on either the Sydney or New Zealand markets.
