THE TREATY WITH SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4045, 7 February 1895, Page 3

THE TREATY WITH SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

THE TERMS.

(Received February 7, 1.30 a.m.) Adelaide, February 6, Under the treaty between South Australia and New Zealand, the latter may import into Adelaide, barley, oats, horses, and hops, and Adelaide may seud to New Zealand wines, salt, olive oil, and fresh and dried fruits free of duty. The treaty comes into force on May Ist, though possibly tho dato will be extended to July 1, in order to allow the Parliaments of either colony to ratify tho negotiations. Incase of the terms being ratified, the treaty will run for seven years. Ono of the provisions is, that similar concessions shall not be granted by either contracting party to any other Colony during the period of the treaty. According to the Hon. Mr Ward, the remission of duties, apart from [fruits, taking last year as a basis, j moans to New Zealand about £14,000. (Received February 7,11.30 a.m.) Adelaide, February 7.

Messrs Ward and Kingston had many long interviews before thoyl could arrange the basis of the treaty, i On the face of it the proposals are j considered favourable to South Australia, but the Treasurer says it is difficult to see what remission of duty means to tlio local Colony, because the lines dealt with do not come direct from N.Z,, but by way of the other Colonies, to which they are credited. The treaty is regarded as a first instalment of free trade, and the best practical proof possible offederalsentiment.Negociationsbad been going on for a long time between the two colonies. Mr Ward in the course of an interview, said that last year, N,Z, imported from South Australia 21,000 gallons of wine, 1,000 from N.SI Wales, and 14,000 from Victoria, and these paid adnty of £9200, so that the proposal meant that Adelaide would take over the whole of the Victorian export of wine to N.Z. There would also be a very considerable increase in the trado in salt and olive oil. Taking the articles for which N. Z. was to have a free market in Adelaide, last year his colony had exported only twelve thousand bushels'of oats, no barley qnd np borses, on the contrary'it had imported a largo number of the latter, at the same time N.Z. made a business of raising race., horses, and ought to be able to give Adelaide the benefit of its best breeds.