New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-20
THEY WANT AMERICAN GOODS
AUSTRALIANS LOOKING TO THIS COUNTRY.
pBELL TELLS WHAT MAY DE Ex.


is In town for brief STAY takes a most hopeful
view OF the future commercial relations between the
United States and the Austraasian colonies. As
Worlds Fair Commissioner these colonies Colonel
Campbell has examined personally and In great de-
tail the situation in each OF them with reference
to trade development, and he thinks there is big
field there for the merchants anl the manufacturers
| Of the United States 10 cultivate.
lie SAID to "a Tribune reporter yesterday regarding
| his experiences
Il was not little surprised at the great abundance
| Of American goods and American manufactures In
| the colonies wherever / went, whether in Victoria,
| New south Wales. Tasmania, Queensland, or New
Zealand In almost every mercantile establishment,
| according to its kind, were TO be seen American
prints and cotOns. American edgeoos such as axes,
| adzes carpenters kits, and the like; typewriteTs,
| sowing machines churns, rcapers and mowers, SIT
binders, sheepshears. Illuminating oil, rails, and
! thousand other things.
found almost everywhere a marked preference
for American goods over the English make, other con-
,ideratons being equal. OF course, there has been
great stamation In business throughout all the coun-
try since the bank failure and general financial dis
ress that followed; bat there Is now good prospect
ahead The panic has spent its force, ana things are
getting equalized again, 50 that the norman cohoiuon
will soon be restored.
! Th. American exhibits at the Melbourne EXPOSE
| tion OF 1883 have done a good deal toward making
the people Of Australia and New-Zealand acquainted
with the character Of our goods and manufactures.
A. tho commissioner Of the United states TO that ex-
| hiMon has spent months I'm helping our people 70
| cot their exhibits placed to good advantage, and In
| talking them up among visitors when the thing was
Going on made 1t my business to meet leading men
from all over that great country they came to the
.xbibtion to Introduce them TO our exhibitors ana
see that the merits OF our goods were uhueso'd oy
them our agricultural and mining machinery seemed
IN attract their attention more than anything ESQ.,
,l.ol nfR n-fn had
10 coo sonare feet OF mining exhibits alone, ana no
has since told me that his display had been worth
sovarl fines IT'S cost I'm increased trade With tho
MISUNDERSTANDING mining districts In fact, within
few years considerable amount OF American capi'ai
has been put into the Australian Mines ana every
dollars worth OF plant that goes with II comes rom
the United states so that alone Is distinct advance
toward closer and better trade relation between inc
United states and the colonies, and 1t Is most oo-
sIrabe kind of an advance because 1t means that our
manufactures are finding a cash MARKET ana 'he
money balances therefore rests Win u.s.
There is also an Increasing wool trade with Aus
tral,a notwithstanding the American tariff duty our
import OF Australian wool /, about loooo'ooo pouhus
n year Last year the Australians shpped " Lon.
dan alone over 900 900 pounds and good deal
~ this comes to the United States. IL may souho
unreasonable but 1t is fact that Shippers ~ heF
bourne and sydney, by way OF LONDON, are n"uins
this wool trade very profitable even with the hihen-
can tariff 10 climb over when they get h're' INV
T. I'm Australia one man. Bostonisn, who has maze
fortune I'm this trade By way of London IN the ia'e
evo wears lie asked me to say nothing about IL
when returned to the United states, as lie was
evidently afraid that competition would SET III WHICH
wond cut down his profits or break up MS DusieS''
But of course, | made 10 such PROMISE TOT SUCH a
thing I. A matter OF public Importance, ana "oua
scarcely be performing my duty as commissioner VI
the United states to the colonies Ill oeeoHiie P"
TO such a conceament.
lust before sailed from sydney, on my return 70
the United States, saw steamer 20 out WIN 80.
bales Of this Australian Wool, ana size h'"i io'ee'
600 b,I.s more because she could not stow IT, ihlS
vessel was bound for san Francisco and the WOOL "~'
going overland its arrival 10 Boston "heh TINS
can he done at profit by Yankee spectators
nation can be gained Of the low state or uaoo ,na'
exists Australia, for 1t Is the cheap heure 'nA' so
the stock ut the start that makes 1t possible.
1.-The opening up Of trade relations with the coo.
MES will threaten the wine industry OF Cahforna' anu
tho first thing we know friends Of that section
win he asking for more protection from tn, new COM
petton some OF the wine people OF the west oo'st
were thinking seriously Of this rs passed tlfVus HI"
found two or three OF these producers opposei mos
decidedly 10 the establishment Of a better pache'
ut, hot,rann san Francisco and Australia. That,
- course would mean the shipment Of great quaint
tle, Of the cheap and excellent wines OF AuSuaha "
IN. United states ard the consequent lowering y
prlccs I'm the market. The Australian wine p1Vuu0t
l. increasing with wonderful rapidly, ana louhd
tbo their choice vlnagcs quite equal 10 the bes'
French article so that the claim Of our Cahiorila
f4euds * rot without reason. one producer IN South
Australia a NJ Hardie, has C0O.0O0 gallons OF wine
I'm his cellars, ready 10 be bottled ana placed on e
market when age shall have improved It's quality ana
the market lts,H shall have become more fsVoraoe'
In san Francisco WIS aston!shed to hear "a very
well known railroad man express doubt about 'he ad
vantage 10 California II extended steamer
10 Intimately
the liberty OF saying that the establishment OF new
and fast line 81 steamers between Melbourne, sydney
and san Francisco would double the value OF every
railroad out II san Francisco In ten years, anu
any railroad man who couldn't figure 1t out dldh'
have sense enough to keep peanut stand He TOOK
It In good part. as ! knew he would and sad tnere
was something in the Idea that hadn't occurred to hin
before"
Recording the late outburs OF III temper toward
tbs country and It's people by sir George h Dloos'
Premier Of New south Vale, Colonel Campbell sau ne
thought the colony would be represented one'auy'
~ well individually. at the Worlds tair' Ill spi''
of the Influence OF Sir George
Th. only particular Colonel Campbell anueo'
AIN which the colonies will be- disappointed in the ar
engagements M Chicago Is their desire to have grand
Austnla,.an Court In which all their exhibits would
be- grouped in adjacent space and In competition WIZ
each other. This, fear, will not be practicable ous
lave every assurance that when they come along
with their cNhthliS everything Will Vc AA'" !" INN
satisfaction a. l said sir George X. Dibbs In my
last interview with him, when he went or on tan
gent and expressed himself 80 proknely and SO vuI
garry toward the American people.
ore object sir george had IN going rom l''nuVn
to Australia by way OF the United states ana Canada
was 70 talk with the Dominion officials at Montreal
nhcut n proposition To c~tnbli,h a steamer serVno
from the Pacific terminus % the Canadian la'ihc 10
sydney and Melbourne. While h seems to have
rallied I'm his effort az OF these officials. ana
tn have left Montreal In dltgeOn. he did New YORK.
Ills mission was Significant for II shows the great
fN. MI nf llt al "A
WAY TO England. \ steamer service by way OF san
Francisco would shorten the journey T. London oy
- ooo miles and A big tide OF travel would be drawn