New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-28
COMMERCIAL NOTES.

The annual report by the Austrian Board of
Trade of the OF that country for 1876 shows
In imports amounting to about six per cent
and an increase III exports of nte more tan TWO pc
cent.
AS matters stand now, the question of ter
mnal facilities has important 10 New York
CITY than that of freight from the West at least rs
far grain ia concerned Grain merchants are beginning
TO understand it,
The owner of the American side of Niagara
Falls TO be classed with the great genises or
great Iuuatcs of the age He proposes to sell the Falls
TO drive cotton mills with and he has writer to the
Governor General of Canada and Queen Victoria
about IT.
1t is proposed to lay a pipe line from the
oil regions to NewYOrk City. Should this enterprise be
carried out the present satisfactory position OF me
METROPOLIS in the oil trade would be materially strength
ened Baltimore has been expecting to get this Line and
will fight IFS construction to this port 0theI nnme1set
be laid. 1t will cost 5000 mile.
There will be launched about noon to-day
from the yard of hessrs John Roach Son. at Chester
Penn. new iron steamship for the New-iork and
Havana trade which will he OF nearly the size as
Niagara and she will be rated by the American ana
French underwriters for Il years. she ore OF seven
mercantile iron seamshps nov on The stocks at th,s
yard Of which will be engaged IN the carrying trade
within three months.
France during the last four years has been
accommodating large stock OF gold and silver prepare
tory to resumption of specie payments b the Bank OF
has been about S50,uiU,jOo year, ol"I III ~ Niici
has been silver The declared imports AMI exports or
gold of the republic for the first TWO months
Of rhe present fiscal year show gain OF Si'I' lW III
gol IS 594 $40 In silver about Onehaf Of winch
went DtO the bank.
specter haunts q considerable portion or
Inc men engaged In British iii the form OF the
danger of spontaneous combustion of coal in ships con
sequent upon proper lack of ventilation The number
of coaadcn vessels which are MISSING is becoming very
great Of it is that the ships bow up at sea
and founder and is lett 80 tell the tie. There is
chance for Plmsoll in Eng 20 stop the mas
Of sailors and destruction OF property through the
improper handling OF coal There is already some aSt-
ton about II.
The business men of the Sandwich Islands
arc In CONSERVATION the Pacific Mail advertise
Tho talk is now about forming company at Honolulu
TO buy and operate two OOO-;on steamships between
that port and Francisco Tie only objection 20 this,
actually takes place, would i0 he ti" number Of
smiling vessels in the trade. WCil lagCd stCain-
SHIPS however, would probably drive nearly every sail
out OF the business.
Three shipments of agricultural implements
have been this port fLssin, under the
arrangement for supplying the farmers Of the northern
provinces with the tools which have enabled the Aner
cans to beat them the sale of grain in the markets of
the world These shipments VIII be suspended by the
war in Europe. IT will paw Ia Sc;! these implements
Ia the Baltic ports and freight them overland to their
destination The Rtssars engaged in this business
be long delayed. IL IS their opinion mat the war VIII bo
nnrt