SIGNS OF BUS NESS REVIVAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1895, Page 4

SIGNS OF BUS NESS REVIVAL.

Professor Bryce, President of the Board of Trade, said at the dinner of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in London, on 13th March, that the signs of a business revival were multiplying everywhere, and especially in the United States, since the settlement of the tariff question. Mr Thomas P. Bayard, United States Ambassador, on behalf of the visitors, said that he was unable to say anything as to the changes in the American tariff .beyond expressing his satisfaction that they had proved beneficial. He devoted some time to the rules of the sea as set forth by the Washington Conference, and traced the events leading to the Conference. The delay in inforcing the regulations showed, he said, that the United States were willing to do all possible to assist in compiling rules which might be acceptable, apd become law to all civilised nations, Individual rights ought to be regarded aa carefully on water as on land ; so, too, ought justice. It is America's desire to secure both. (Oheers). Mr Henry M Stanley! answered the toasts, ' Geographical Travel and the Foundation of Commercial Enterprise.' He said : — ' Many places await the coining of our travellers, but I fear we do not understand this so well as Germany and the United states. Mr Stanley referred also to German j's competition with Great Britain in Australasia and Afriqa.