New-York tribune., 1903-01-12
TRADE AND FINANCE ABROAD.

The French Government continues to make great
efforts to develop the natural resources and espe
ciaIly the commercial relations with the Island or
Madagascar. where the railroad building between
-ramatave on the coast and Tananarivoo, the cap
ital situated high up in the inland mountains is
progressing almost with the proverbial American
celeritv' A decree Of the Governor General has
ordered that the establishments Of the general
stores 'nnagasins gensraux." at Tamatave, shali
be opened TO exploitation In consequence or this
decree the public maze use of the regime gov
erning IL 'Entrepot reel' and the "Magasin Gen
" reserved to these establishments The En-
akin to the United States bonded warehouses in
American seaports. It is opened to all merchaIss
CONSUMPTION. and which have not yet paid these
different duties Formerly that class Sc OF merchan d,
companies to which they had 10 pay tax for han
ong anc 3r I0e monthiv ton. after the seventh day
Following the complete unloading of the importing
Custom House regulations and to be transferred to
the govenment warehouse yher9 b aa1ang s4o 10
the commercial development of the island OF Mada-
G fb nfrepot 9s Tee at Tamatave and other
ports of the French colony
Many conflicting cable dispatches have been puo-
-Iished recently about the railroad projected be-
tween the republics of Bolivia and Argentina, and
to be built by a European company, Il Afr1caihe-
But the latest dispatches. confirmed by other re-
ports, and received at Brussels. announce that the
Bolivian Congress AT La Paz has assented TO the
request of the company for modlneatlen aa OF me
grants the national guarantee for the construction
Of the st 200 g @ 9T tne from the he G date Of
their being opened to public traffic. On the other
to The COMPANY every facility for the building Of
the railroad, which wlI continue the Inc a!reaqy
cities on the Platte River the commerce of Bolivia
and a portion of that Of Paraguay.
The official organ at ST Petersburg. the Mes
sager du Commencement published lately a de-
tailed report concerning the measures taken py
the Russian authorities to remedy the conse-
ouences of the bad crop and to insure the feedlns
of the population contained in ten provinces OF
Russia proper and of some regions in Siberia
Nearly 100000 rubIes has already been spent for
6o1e nat @ that thanks to the measures
ready taken. the people will not suffer from want:
han will he able to have next spring. provisions OF
grain in quantities sufficient for the sowing season
At the same time, when quite recent dispatches
report the discovery, north of Pretoria, in the
TransvaaI of immense diamond grounds, the dfa
mona industry in British Guiana is represented in
the local papers continuing TO be very prosper
GUS Shipments of nearly three thousand diamonds
had been dispatched by the British Guiana Dia-
mond Company, Limited. IN single mail Tor Lon
TTonots1 was on foot backed by English capitalists
Ia amaigamate all the companies now engaged IN
The Mazaruni district in manner similar in consu-
tuition TO the South African consolidated companies
communication from the general direction of
French
and modifying some regulations enforced by
ministerial order of April 19. 1872 relative to the
Franco Oriental trade in carpets. shows that the
great European market for carpets is no longer at
Constantinople but at London Since certain
number of years the conditions of transportation
between Persia and Europe have been deeply modi-
fed through the opening OF new channels OF peh--
fration and the creation of lines OF naVisation IN
.t,a part of the Oriental empire. Thus.
Persia and the Occident is made along the ROAD
Render -BIshir-Teheran via ChiraZ- Is pahan tIe
MORT ~ Bushir on the Persian Gulf, being served
Nv numerous lines making lspahan ara Cfllraz:
st:htcI have become to be the real warehouses or
persia in direct communication with EnSiano;
France and Germany. The carpets have lIItateH
tbe other goods and pass no longer through Con-
sta ntinople but 60 direct to London
The commercial convention relative to the coffee
trade between Brazil and italy has been prorogated
for two years up TO the end of 1894 Brazil re-
pounees until date TO exact new reduction OF
IN 1ire 1851 on the entrance duties of her coHee III
r. .,eninstila The French merchants ana some
deduct from this fact the expectation
- tbA Bra lillian Government Will not thlnk foi
Ling from the French Government new dlmlnu-
ar e. dfies on the coffee, at least during the
1I1 tie opinion of the new Minister or Forelgh
2. airs at Rio Janeiro. the Baron OF tlo Bran.
= aho on his recent passing through Paris on ilis
49, IA EraIl declared that for the present ms
.ry was "a atisfed with the reduction OF duties
80 eoffee recently granted by the freneh Govern
n1ent