WOOL FOR JAPAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1387, 29 June 1878, Page 3

WOOL FOR JAPAN.

A day or two ago, we referred to some wool intended for shipment to Japan. An idea characteristic of British enterprise and love of trade arose amongst the members of the Agricultural Society, that it would be desirable to see if business connections could not be satisfactorily established between this colony and Japan, at least as far as wool is concerned. The impression that it would be possible to find a market for this commodity nearer than England, and amongst a nation so numerous as to create a demand for the staple production of the colony, was very generally admitted; and to bring matters to an issue, Mr P. N. Trebeck was requested to prepare a collection of wook suitable for convincing the Japanese, if they are consumers of that article, that the colony is able to meet any of their wanta in respect to it. Mr Trebeck acquiesced in the views and desires of his colleagues, and has now completed his labour in an extremely gratifying manner, and it is hoped by the society that his efforts, combined with their own, will not only lead to trade with the Japanese, but through them with the numerous inhabitants of the Chinese Empire also, as some difficulty has hitherto been experienced in commencing to deal direct with China. The samples of wool chosen for the society's objects have been selected from the best specimens on view at the late Exhibition, where they had many admirers. Their qualities have not been surpassed here, and their types are those most in favour for the manufacture of the finest cashmeres and merinoes. They are in five cases. The first of these will contain six rams' fleeces, six ewes', and three lambs' fleeces, all of combing wool, grown by Mr A. W. Kermode. These form the moat beautiful i array of washed wool that has ever appeared in Sydney. It has been packed in a box got up specially for the occasion, and consisting of fine-grained rosewood, beech, pine, and cedar This lot, especially intended for his Majesty the Mikado of Japan, will be a present from the Agricultural Society. The other caseß contain respectively unwashed merino wool, produced by Mr A. W. Kedmore and Mr E. W. Pitt, and unwashed wools by Messrs. Peppin and Sons, Clive and Hamilton, J. F. and H. White, and Mr F. R. White. They are all highclass wools, and intended for distribution amongst manufacturers in the country they are going to. Arrangements have been effected for shipping the cases by the A. S. N. Co.'s steamship Thales, which is announced to start to-day for Hongkong ; and Sir Harry Parkes, H. B. M. Ambassador at Yeddo, to whom they will be consigned, will be requested to see, aa far as in him lies, that they reach the destinations for which the society here intend them. — Sydney Morning Herald.