THE VANCOUVER LINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9308, 18 September 1893, Page 5

THE VANCOUVER LINE.

Bress Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

London, September 15. Mr. Huddart is awaiting the arrival of Sir C. Tupper, Canadian Commissioner, before interviewing the Government on the question of a subsidy to the Vancouver line.

.Brisbane, September IG.

There is some prospect of the Government granting a subsidy to Huddart, Parker and Co. The Premier, in reply to a communication from the Premier of New South Wales, stated that it was* intended to ask Parliament to vote a sum of £5000 per year.

TRADE WITH CANADA.

From files of the Vancouver Daily.News and Advertiser the following items of interest are extracted : —

By the Miowera some Australian mutton has been received, and ib is selling from 10 cents to 18 cents per lb, tho same figures as obtained for local mutton. Some rabbits and hares also received sold readily, the former realising 40 cents each, and the latter 75 cents. Importers claim to havelosb by the sale ab these prices on account of the duty, 3 cents per lb, otherwise good business could be done in these articles, as both are scarce here. Ib is freely stated thab in the event of potatoes ever again reaching here anything like the famine prices of a few weeks since, very largo shipments of Australian and New Zealand tubers will be imported. Had tho prices lately prevailing here been bub known in time ab the Antipodes, 1000 tons would have been brought over on tho Miowera, and sold in British Columbia ab a very handsome profit after paying good freight. The meat-packers of Eastern Canada and the United States will have to look to their laurels or a serious inroad will be made on the business done by them in British Columbia by the Graziers' Butchering Company of Brisbane. Thab firm has sent bo A. Fader and Co. a sample shipment of 37 cans of preserved meats and a barrel of salt beef. These samples were opened on Augusb 15, and some of the best judges of such provisions and some of bhe largest dealers pronounced them better than any canned meats they had seen offered for sale in the west. There was also a barrrel of salted beef which promises to take the place of eastern cured. So well satisfied were all present that the firm ab once decided to order a large quantity by the next steamer about 200 cases and 50 barrels of beef.

Mr. Eugene Troost, woolbroker, of Australia, when in Ottawa on his way home after a business tour through a portion of Canada, stated to a correspondent cf the MonbrealGazette thabthe prospects of a large development of the wool trade between Canada and Australia were good. Canada at present takes some Australian wool, bub nearly all comes by way of Boston, to which port ib is taken by water. The question to be settled is whether the Canadian Pacific Railway can give a rate for wool which will enable shippers to avail themselves of the transcontinental route in preference to the water route to Boston. Mr. Troost says he had interviews with officials of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and he finds a great disposition on their part to promote the development of the Australian trade. Mr. Troost gob quite a number of orders for wool, amongst them one from Rosamond mills, at Almonte.

On August 12 the News and Advertiser had the following : —" The market is now well supplied with both Australian and Californian fruit, and big business is being done in this line. The Australian fruit arrived in good condition. A few pines, however, were shipped too ripe. The figures wholesalers quote are as follow:—Pineapples, 3 dollars 50 cents to 4 dollars per dozen ; oranges, 1 dollar 75 cents per box ; lemons, 2 dollars 50 cents; apples, 2 dollars ; bananas, 2 dollars 25 conts to 2 dollars 75 cents. The apples were in specially good demand, and were soon snapped up. The lemons also sell well, being superior to the Californian variety. Californian fruit is quoted as follows :—Pears, 1 dollar 50 cents per box ; apples, 1 dollar 50 cents to 1 dollar 75cents; peaches, 1 dollar 25 cents ; plums, 1 dollar 25 cents; apricots, 1 dollar 25 cents ; grapes, 2 dollars per crate ; oranges, 3 dollars 50 cents per box; tomatoes, 1 dollar; melons, 30 cents each."