Opening of Great Grain Regions.
Robsu has resolved to develop her system of railway communication on an enormous scale, and for this purpose has just contracted • loan of 975,000,000, to bo expended during the next few year*. India has already built lines of railway penetrating the furthest provinces Australia has also made long strides in the same direction. * Next in order is the Argentine Confederation, in South America, which ia building four additional trunk lines of railroad, at a coat of $28,000,000, to connect Buenos Ayres, her principal seaport, with the vast granariea opening up in the pampai of the interior. In eretj case tbe ultimate purpose is to overcome all impediments in reaching the central grain markets of Europe. And, in ipite of all thia, says the BritUh Trade Journal, American grain speculators continue their efforts to artificially maintain the price of wheat, as though there were a great deficiency in tbe (apply of the world, and the nations woald eventually have to oome to them begging the privilege of being allowed to purchase some of their surplus.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2000, 2 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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179Opening of Great Grain Regions. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2000, 2 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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