COLONIAL PRODUCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1751, 17 July 1895, Page 2

COLONIAL PRODUCE.

TRADE WITH MANCHESTER POSSIBILITIES OP AN IMMENSE MARKET.

London, Julylfi Hotson, of Victoria, will read a paper pnoolqniaj produce at Manchester pn Monday. -He says he has' becom.e convinced of the immediate prospect of a sound and expensive business in 'all Australian produce shipped direct to Manchester. The fact that exporters are determined to open a. regular trade with Manchester and Glasgow where they will reach an immense working class population is, he mentions, TindoSbted inAustralia. Vessels would take-Manchester goods to Australia on the-outward trip, and', any movementvto Establish a line of steslmers between Australia and Manchester would response of jthe AustrjaliEm who would 'guarantee shipments of the best classes of frozehinesit, cattle, wool, tallow,: and butter. HebeliWes that if the duties on Manchesfcer gpods .were the only ob fl ide to the opening of a direct , trade, iiheVictoiian Government wouldseeits way to abolish those on Manchester goods. Mr Hotson adds that he is glad to see that'Manchester hate realised the necessity of a provision for financial accommodation: equal to that provided by London; importers, and suggests that Victoria, in engaging produce steamers should consider tenders from 'Manchester. He calculates that wool can. be' Unded from. 1 Australia at manufacturing. districts,, at £1 per toil cheaper by. tlle M'anchester route than by the route at present. He suggests that a. committee-; of the Manchester merchants should confer with the Australian exporters through responsible delegates. • -