Commenting on the satisfaction felt in New Zealand at tins establishment of duvet steam communication with England, (lie .•(usttrahtaim says It is scarcely to bo expected that, onr Melbourne merchants and shipowners will view this change in the aarnc spirit of satisfaction. But they arc perfectly aware that the loss of the New Zealand trade, or a groat part of it, is a condition which Melbourne must look on to when the time arrives that the colony is able to take its importing bnsU ness wholly on its own hands. \N e in Victoria have doin' all we could towards expediting this state of things, by the prohibitive Usual system by which wo have chosen to hamper and encumber onr intercolonial trade. Gradually that trade will slip from us, and wo shall have none (hon to aid in supporting (hose solfimposod burdens, which will devolve altogether on ourselves." A special commission of the Russian Ministry of Finance is now sitting and discussing the best means of suppressing England’s transit trade with the Caucasus.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 990, 29 January 1883, Page 2
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