RUSSIAN TRADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2064, 10 August 1885, Page 2

RUSSIAN TRADE.

Recently the Russian newspapers have contained several articles giving gloomy accounts of the prospects of Russian trade in both Siberia and Central Asia, The "Moscow Gazette" states that the amount of trade passing through Kiachta, which has long been diminishing, is now absolutely insignificant. The cause* ; this are paid to be the ooat of transpqflHr'l ■ and the exosssiva commissions levied on?v 1 each article. It is said that the cost of merchandise always doublcsandiometimes trebles, between Kiachta'and Mosoovr. The Russian writer gees on to deaoribe.wh'&t. hMbeendonebymeansofthereducedtariff : of the Volunteer Fleet to benefit Russian commerce in China, but he is constrained■■ to come to the conclusion that the only important article which has been bene-' nted by these efforts is tea.' The only remedy that suggests itself is the form- ! atlon of & distinct China Company at - Moscow, which should delegate a • speoial " representative to Shanghai for th 0< : purpose of exhibiting' and receiving Russian wares. Affairs are no" better in Central Asia. The "'St. PetersburgGazette" publishes lettersjfrom Tashkend giving a very gloomy account of the stufe of trade in Turkestan. The Oflly hope ■ of retrieval lies in the prompt concession of privileges to both Russian and native merchants, The .expectation is indulged that many articles will bo passed duty free, and that among i, these will be cotton, silk, and indigo. / • After mentioning several minor J this unsatisfactory stake of things, M-, writer says that the principal reason in the remoteness of this region, figgravatedby the iq the fact that tl\e transport service is a* monopoly, The transport service, carried " : o,n by the only two agencies in Tashkend, is moreover so bad that not only, is the original cost doubled, bnfc a journey, which 'tho post performs in thirteen or fourteen days, takes them between five and. aix months,

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