German Commerce in the Pacific.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5039, 7 March 1885, Page 2

German Commerce in the Pacific.

An explanation of the sudden colonial expansion of Germany will be found on consulting the " White Book " recentlj published in Berlin. It contains, amongst other interesting matter, two very exhaustive reports addressed to the Imperial Chancellor by Dr. Stuebel, the Administrator of the Germ?n Consulate at Apis, in Samoa, one, dealing with the.Germnn Trading and Plantation Company of the' South Sea Islands, and the other with the competition which German merchants and planters have to encounter in .the in« dependent islands of the Western Pacific. In tbe first Dr. Stuebel endeavours to give a view of the German business interests in the region under consideration. He believes tbe busi> ness success of German colonists to bede* pendent not merely upon judicious, management, but also upon the early settlement of political questions, especially in Samoa. In bis second report Dr Stuebel asserts that German trade still occupies a commanding position in the Western Pacific. Competition, so far as it exists at all, is for the present confined to experiments, the success of which is uncertain. A real danger only threatens.. from Anglo-Australian competition, inaa*;much as political considerations may die* tate the creation of English interests at any cost in order to counteract the solid eH> tablisbment of German influence. Dr Stuebel recommends Prince Bismarck \p aim at securing the commercial success already achieved by increasing the pro* fessional consular staff in tbe Pacific as well as by strengthening the German fleet in those waters. It is mentioned that tbe German Trading and Plantation Company has divided tbe Western Pacific into three ~ regions. Apia, which is the headquarters, embraces the Gilbert, Eilice, Tonga, and Samoan Islands; Jaluit, one of tbe Bonham group, includes the Marshall and Caroline croups; and Miokoembraces the whole . of Melanesia, with the New Hebrides,' Solomon Islands, New Britain, and the islands further west. A report on the foreign competition to which the Germans are exposed makes special mention of the * business activity of Auglfl Australians. Messrs McArthur and Co., of Auckland, have, it is said, a business station at Upolu. \o the West of Apia, but the operations are not extensive. At Tonga, on the contrary, the same firm are noir : acting with vigour, and are seriously competing with German Houses. Messrs " Henderson and M'Farlane, of Auckland, and Messrs Kelly and Williams, of Sydney, are described as interested in the trade with the Marshall, Caroline, /and Solomou groups, besider which Australian vessels are in the habit of visiting Tonga and Samoa once or twice a year for the purpose of supplying goods and carrying away the produce of the country. The American competition is not at present regarded as serious.—Anglo New Zealander.

The great cafe of Venice—Florian's, on \ the piazza of St. Mark—has nerer been ' closed, night or day, for one hundred and fifty years. " Everything," says the " Portuguef& " goes into the .English basket." Tha . English says the German, are an "in« terested" people. England, says -the French, is " always in the way." England, murmur theliatians, will let no one hare anything worth having. "I never met an Englishman," said a Dutch polilican, " who did not think he had a reversion in the Universe.' England is selfish, lays all the world. And the effect of all that is, that English advance is never regarded with pleasure, that England never succeeds when she submits any question to abntralion, and that, when she is com- ■ pelted to advance, as in Egypt, all Europe is either silently or actively opposed to her pretensions, or if any State supports them, it does so in hope of compensation. Dip a spongo in kerosene and apply it slightly to the horse's ears and neck. It will keep the flies off for two or three days, when the operation may be reoeated. So says that good farmer, J. 8., Porter, of. - Stow, Mass., through.that good paper. the X". E. Farmer. .- - *■'- '