A Visit to the States.

Evening Star, Issue 8399, 27 December 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Visit to the States.

Mr John Marshall, who huH recently returned from the United States, states that there is a great fruit boom on in Southern California. A «« bliaaard " destroyed the young fruit in the Eastern Stateß, henoe the demand which has sprung up. The fruit it being bought up by speculators from Chicago, who have anticipated the New Yorkers, fie was particularly struck with the care which was taken in picking the fruit in orchards, the fruit being hand-picked from the trees, classified and placed in the boxes which were placed undey the trees. Nothing but the beat quality was so handled and exported, the windfalls and inferior fruit being devoted to other uses. He does not wonder at the remunerative character of their fruit crops, after seeing the business and painstaking way in which the orchardists go about their business, Speaking of the M'Kinley tariff, Mr Marshall says that more commercial failures than those reported will yet take place before the Americans are done with the tariff. He instances the case of the sugar-growers at Honolulu. Hitherto they have had a bonus for the sugar produced and imported iota the States; now they will be met by a duty. As it was, they had a difficulty in carrying on, but with the new duty imposed by the tariff it is believedmany people oonneoted with the sugar industry in Honolulu will be well-nigh rained* The manufacturers are simply crushing the consumers with duties of all kinds, which, have greatly increased the cost of living in. the States—' New Zealand Herald.'