The Argentine Republic.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1632, 11 February 1886, Page 2

The Argentine Republic.

[English Correspondent.]

On the River Plate, and m th», Argentine Republic generally, considerable activity prevails. The, fresh meat from, this region sells wholesale at 4d'to 4^d per lb, and the carriers, having en t«red< 'the field at this late date, are enabled; kl{ ing oxoonse to themselves, to benefit by jthe failures and experience of the English colonists m Anstralasiai/ Thatth» iadvahtages on the ; side of -'the ' South lAmeribahs are very great is bbviouiE ienough^but the trade is too young y«t to be fairly established. One thing must always be remembered m connection i with the South American republics. jThey^hiave such unstable Gdvern^pßl ithafc capitalists' always fight- jShyOTir.* 4v§3ting money j|n 'those regions. Many iyears. ago a Welsh Colony settled m (Patagonia,' and has become remarkably ■prosperous ; indeed, there is at'tfJe^Stesenf ample scope for further profitable emigration m that direction.— -Land it Icheap^and good, the climate is magnificent and' temperate, and produces whea^ almost unrivulled'Ui quality. Nothing is iwanted but better means of communication with the 'outer world, but the Buenoa jAyres # Government is so corrupt and so unstable iliat nothing can; be dorie^yfithw out biibery m every iquarter.J 'E^e^r negotiation undertaken has to be eased with golden oil, and the enormous detriment this is to enterprise arid trade goei ' jwithout telling. In Buenos Ayres, th« ■city improvement. works, m the hands of one of the most eminent engineers, have been dragging on for years and ; yeirs^ Vast sums of money have been expended' or rather voted f ro^ time to time, eyetiy 1 penny of L which is swallowed "poyii^b^ bery. and corru ption. Consequently frftmt time to time the works are suspended, ] and whether they will ever be completed 1 is a moot question. The only link -tfhich seems to hold the thing at all together is the%higb name and great jn'tegpty <k tha Briglistf engineer 'alluded to.i refer to these facts because no comninn. ity based on such a miserable system of government as* fcJifia can ever prove a Very serious rival to a well-ordered State. •• • -