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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 85, 12 April 1888, Page 4

The horee trade between Australia and India (writes the London correspondent of the Press), should by all rights reap some solid advantages from tho vagaries of the Ameer . of Afgha&ieb&n. The Onbuli horse dealers have, up to the present, been in the habit of buying horses in Badakksban and other northern countries, driving them down through Afghanistan, and selling them in Northern India. Now the Amorr has taken it into his head to mnke th« hone trade a personal monopoly, and in'ends for tho future purchasing-, at his own ratec, all borara brought into hi» country, a&d sending them down to India for vale at, hit own risk. At last, thte is tbe #tory Minted by ths dealers thematlve?. If true, the const quence will, of coura-, be that very few horses will now find their *ay faom the north into Afghanistan, And the demand from other countries for India will be largely increased. Oue of the latest novel' i s in dress ie announced from the United States. Ie is steol lac?, mndo iv extremely delica'e patterns, and so light that it could almost be blown away by a breath of air. It in made of steel rolled »s fine at the poht of a cambric net die, and not woven, but stamped out of a rheet of low grade steel, so that it would nob be too brittle. The San Francisco Chronicle has published a lengthy article on Australian trade, giving very complete statistics These show that there has been a heavy decrease in the exports from the United States to the colonies, while the imports are correspondingly inor«asing. At San Francisco the imports for last year exoieded the exportg in tbe colonial trade by 40,000 dollars, The sudden change in the trade with the United States is of very great interest, and is indeed romewhat surprising, It Ecems that the imports into San Francisco are mainly from New South Wales, which Colony, now that it is sending more of its products to tbe States— ohiefly tin and coal — ■hould be prepared to bear a larger proportion •f the cost of the mail service. In the London Star (says the London correspondent of the Auckland Herald) a story is printed that the Prince of Wales disturbod the actors and the public by loud talk during the performance of "Ariadne." Search for porsons who heard- such noisy talk failed to find them