NEW ZEALAND TRADE WITH CALIFORNIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 181, 4 June 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TRADE WITH CALIFORNIA.

From a private letter,' whioh ' wi-'-iS^ited'^^ by a firm Jn towrt t>y.;tl^_|^.i-«il|i_^j_^^M Franoisooj we C^m'W <^^flliJtW , 'te\>JK permitted, to make the foflowing extraots. f^l The writer is oue ,wh&,waa Ml wftwtim^J&f with Now Zealajad fttftowimgoi tM'i%W^M remarks, will noi:_tttt$ '; ' be,; por used pleasure;.' He.deals wttfcs*__ ' followi_Pif topics :-k : < ■- .A:V*V^ FBpiT.—Oanovaris -will be able td. make "?'M a grand return.on Auokland apples. They ;v| sold at 3 dollars to 8 dollars 2$ cents per boxV 'M Garlio fetched lOoents, or 200 dollars (say .■"■•;' £40) per ton of 20001bs. Onions Also oa_te "■"' toa satisfactory market; A big shipment . qf Tasmanwn app^B,ww:rnine_^., _fre-froi4^ Xwas stowed in aa afc-tight' compartment , and literally baked. T|ds was p isrtuhate, V as if thedoois had been left dae^to ensure ventilation doubtless the fruit would hive been landed in good^ooridition.-: _n'„_s '-• •natter of fruit shipments, Auokland has a great advantage over Tasmania or Sydhey in the shorter time at sea. You would supply Honolulu and San Franoisoo with fruit during our off : season, ;butf the utmost oare must be taken in Seleoting and. pocking fruit for export, The duty does not bat muoh figure tfith the fOre_b|ng;'^lbit? California apples' never sell l afore 1 dollar' 76 cents per box,' It will bo^ neOTssiry, however, for your; jbipperi to engage 8 WOO in advanoe. for eapfc., sbsamer during 1 Jha, season, as doubtless tlie prices quoteaMlt^ stimulate Australian shipments. You will find, as this trade is developed, unless it ia sacrificed to the interest of Canadian speculators, that it will more than justify all that has. been said about it. '-Moreover shippers will have the advantage of muoh quioker returns. Flax.— What has been done about establishing standards of quality or weight of bales ? Tho bales should be of uniform size, and it should' bo possible to buy through your agenoy by standard number or distinguishing letter as satisfactorily as by personal inspeotion, A Liverpool merohant has no difficulty in buying a cargo bf wheat at San Franoisoo by simply quoting the established grade without' sample. ~So it should be with your flax. And some one should be employed to work up a market for it in the United States, whioh is fast becoming the great manufacturing oountry of the world. fi Tabifp,— An attempt, will be made to lower the duty on wool next session of Congress. I think something might be done to favour half-bred #bol, The Australian output frightens amerioan woolgrowers, They are uot so afraid of New Zealand, whose wool produoe is necessarily limited?' Sobsidt Bill.— The shipping league wiU introduce its Bill next Congress, and endeavour to fight it through. It has a good' ohanoe to pass. The President made sevetal forcible speeohes in Texas and other South* em States in favour of a liberal subsidy to Amerioan.. ships, and the set of popular opinion is in its favour, V