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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 149, 9 June 1891, Page 3

The London correspondent of tlie Dun* edin Star says: - I am informed lhat it is the intention ot a co terie of large shippers to New Zealand to form a connnilte.- with a view to approaching the New Zealand shipping companies on (he suljject of a reduction in tne rates of freight , T which" aro at present out of all proportion with those which obtain to Australian ports. The ordimirj rnte. to .\~ew Zealand are about* 30s to 32s 6d per ton for sailing vessels, and 45s and ' upwards for steam. 'Ihe current rates to Australia, however, are only 17s 6<i sailing, and 25s steam The Australian Shipping CommHtee's latest circular-announces' 1 that -cargoJfor Melbourne'and Sjdriey, for vesVels-loaded'by the Associated Brokers and the Austra* li.Yn! Mutual- Company, will be taken at 12s 6d. Last week I was told that one shipper succeeded in gettmg'l2o ton's conveyed .to Sydney by an Orient boat at 17s 6d. What next? y _'.;.. For large size, for extra weight, for good quality, and for durability we would strongly recommend our one guinea blankets, and would unhesitatingly assert that these are the best' guinea's worth of wool aud warmth in Wellington. . As inthe past so now, 'we expect to' have numerous inquiries for; our guiuea blankets, at Te Aro House, Wellington.