The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-11
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s4ruRDAY. LUNE II, 1870.

JUNE II, 1870
The condition Of the CaIiGmia wheat crop, says the BHHefH
Il beginning to excite alarm AMER making due allowance i0E
the usual amount Of eroakfng, incident 10 the season and 70
those interested in the matter, We find Il to Be generally co.,
eeded that the present prospect fs gathering a crop as large
a. the last one n exceedingly slim An English tShe Circular
estimates that Great Britain must import 24oOo,OOo bushes OF
wheat between the first Of April and first of sePtember, which
must nearly all 60 from America These two circumstances
viii tend TO put up the price ofnOur.
There : a aeorusrp in the Eastern peanut market. The
crop was sshorts last season. AMI a Cincinnati firm is buying
M all the crop that can be had, for the purpose Of making n
scorner.s With viii enable il TO put up the price to a giddy
pint. when enough has been obtained in to rule the market
The arm has already collected in their warehouse about three
hundred thousand bushels, and they continue to roll in
The INTEL States receipts from internal revenue for April
were the largest yet reported, amounting to sI3,SO61ss, against
STA oe0G53 for April, 1859, showing an increase Of s~1,22+,o35.
The total receipts for the current year 10 date are SI37,314,-
1901 against sII5, $50 ,3Ss "a for the same ten months in 1862,
showing 4 gain Of SILL 4G2 81 for the current fiscal year.
such figures as these ought 20 increase the confidence Of foreign
nations In the financial soundness Of the United States The
reduction in the public debt for the month Of April reached
sII.Ge7,Ios-
The steamer Japan arrived at San Francisco from Yokohama
May IL, bringing 100 European passengers. among them Sir
Richard Graves ami Lady McDonneHfIr San Francisco, Count
and Countess de la Tour for Europe, and 1y276 Chinese.
The bark AdsHa Carlton from San Francisco, en- route for
Japan, and the ~codashing schooner Witch Queen from Car
men Island, for the Ochotsk, are the only arrivals the past
week. Both vessels have sailed again.
Among our exports, We noIe the barkentine Jane a. FaIkin-
burg hr Portland and the schooner a. r. Jordan for Victoria,
both with full carg0es Of produce.
Business has been very dull the present week, In the absence
Of foreign arrivals. -
ITEMS.
The steam trade from Liverpool through The Isthmus OF
Scez, Is becoming very considerable
second Assistant Engineer G. W. Baird, attached to the
Navy Yard, Mare Island. has invented n condenser. with ap-
paratus attached, which Immediately cOols and erates the
water, 50 as to render IL ft for drinking az once. Baird has
already received a patent for his apparatus, which works adj
mtrahy, the water being very cool. with only q very slight
otenzinOus taste, such as men on board ship would hardly de-
tecG-
The arrival Of emigrant Iishmen 1t New York recently was
unprecedeutelly large The number passing through Castle
Garden was greater than on any one day since the beginning Of
the year. The GIOEing named steamers, all from Liverpool,
brought each the number Of enigrants annexed: France,
less ; City Of HaHchesfer, Sl2i City Of WashiHgfOH, LIPS;
Colorado, 12U5-making n total Of 4.4I2 The SHfsfH, from
Hamburg. brought 62O emfg ants, making the total number ar
irving Al New York in one day 5,O33