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TRADE WITH JAPAN.

TO THE EDITOR 01’ THE NEW 'ZEALAND MAIL. Sir, —I was much pleased to find by your valuable paper, this morning that you have brought prominently forward the importance of developing a trade between this colony and tire populous country of Japan. People in New Zealand do not seem gener- ( ally aware of tire wealth that trade with Japan might bring them. If they were so more stir would have been made to get the Japanese Commisioneers who are now in 'Australia to visit New Zealand, so that on their return to their native land they might carry substantial reasons for giving New Zealand a share of the commerce that they are trying to promote between Japan and Australia. It is well known that the Japanoaso are fast adopting European customs aud dress, and having lived for some years in Japan', I add my testimony to the fact that most of the higher class even now wear European clothes, and the lower class many articles made of flannel, the native tailors having learnt the art of making clothes a la European. _ . It is because of this that the commissioners arc now in Australia, as the Japanese, being eminently a practical people, do not believe in buying what they can make for themselves. They now use largo quantities of tweed cloth and flannel for articles of dress; these materials they purposo making for themselves, but they have not the raw wool, aud bo are seeking for a supply. Here is therefore a good market for colonial wool, aud one which the Australians will take the host advantage of. Now why should not Now Zealand reap some of the advantages of this trade ? Let tho Government invito these commissioners to visit this land, and lot tho merchants and manufacturers here send by them samples of what they cati supply, and with a little judicious encouragement from tho Government, largo exports of leather, wool, stock of all kinds, and many other articles of colonial produce and manufacture would take place, and wo should import from them, at a cheap rate, tea, rice,, tobacco, silk, cotton, wax, japanwarc, crockery, and many other useful articles; and Japanese—who would make capital colonists, a» they are very industrious, and have not tho narrow-mindedness of tho Chinese —would bo induced to take up laud aud settle hero. Surely tho Government of this colony will

do all in their power to encourage the people of this land to trade with a wealthy-nation who produce much that wo require, whoso population numbers many millions, whoso fleet is equal to*that of any second-rate Power in Europe, and whose power and glory is fitly shadowed forth by their national flag, which represents the “rising sun.” I hope Mr. Fox’s motion will be answered by the Government in the affirmative, and that trade and honor, peace and plenty, will flow to this land, not only from Japan,.bat from every other civilised country.—l am, &c, Niphon-jin. Wellington, July 31. ,

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5414, 3 August 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

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TRADE WITH JAPAN. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5414, 3 August 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

TRADE WITH JAPAN. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5414, 3 August 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

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