JAPANESES TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5545, 24 November 1879, Page 3

JAPANESES TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.

The Japanese appear to be seriously turning their attention to the prospect of deriving wealth from trade with Australia. It is stated that the proposal to establish woollen mills in Japan was suggested by the idea of utilising Australian wool. It has also been pointed out that the cheap twoeds manufactured in Australia might meet with an extended market. A writer in a Japanese paper, the Qlwya Shimbun, urges that little profit can be expected by Japanese merchants from trading with Corea, with which commercial relations have already been opened, as that country is small and poor ; while as the China trade is already largely in the bands of Englishmen and Americans, the Japanese will have still further difficulty in making headway in that direction. These ' objections, he contends, will not apply in the case of Australia, which is separated from Japan by only a comparatively narrow tract of water. The Government is encouraging the idea by sending samples of Japanese productions to the Sydney Exhibition, and providing a free return passage for intending exhibitors. The writer to the Choi/a Shimbun considers that efforts to establish a trade in rice and other food stuffs in competition with Annan and other riceexporting countries, and in articles for daily use rather than in costly and luxurious objects, will be most likely to be successful. Shipbuilding in its most advanced form, the construction of steamers, is now being prosecuted by native enterprise at Nagasaki.