COLONIAL TRADE INTERESTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2103, 14 June 1894, Page 17

COLONIAL TRADE INTERESTS.

Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyright. London, June 8. Speaking at a meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce, Mr Inglis, a member of the New South Wale 3 Parliament, said that the new unionists in Australia were discredited, and old methods were being revived. Supporters of the latter used parliamentary power with more wisdom. He urged the merohants to combine to reduce freights to the colonie3. Mr James Inglis, M.L.A., of Sydney, addressing a meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce, advocated the merchants combining on similar lines to the labour bodies, and urged closer union between the chambers of commerce throughout tha Empire to enable their united voice to be raised in cases like the Costa R'ca Packet incident. He asked the Chamber of Commerce to assist in getting firearms in the New Hebrides group. Sydney, June 9. Mr Reid, the Victorian Minister for Defence, who has returned from Eogland via Vancouver, h^.s been interviewed. He states that he found great anxiety in Great Britain to develop the meat trade, with the result that in the future there will be no scarcity of refrigerating accommodation. All the leading lines were fitting their vessels with machinery. His visit to England had shown him that the English public had greater faith in Australia than the Australians had in themselves. The depression, like the boom, was beirg overdone. The pendulum of trade, in swinging back from activity to dulness, had jast swung a little tao far, but would soon right itself.