A' RECIPROCITY CONVENTION.
An Americo-Canadian Convention met at St. Paul's, Minnesota, on June 5. -Th^re were between 300 and 400 delegates present, and as many more came next day. The object was commercial, and to set forth the. advantages of reciprocity with Canada for both" countries, and the material development and mutual advantage to be derived from a deep waterway to the ocean from Lake Superior. ExGovernor Burke, of Dakota, was chairman. The Hon. James Fisher, M.P. for Winnipeg, expressed, on behalf of the Canadian delegates, a wish that the reciprocity treaty of 1854 might be renewed. He gave figures to show .that Canada was a far greater market for United States products than for English, and that Canada bought millions more than she sold to the United States. The utmost harmony prevailed between delegates from the
United States and Canada, and it is evident there is a strong movement to restore just commercial relations between the two countries.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2056, 20 July 1893, Page 14
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