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 OF OANADiA, 
 
 TREATING OF 
 
 EXTENT AND VALUE OF THE TRADE WITH AUSTRALASIA. 
 
 II. 
 
 THE PORTION OF SAME DONE BY GREAT BRITAIN, THE 
 UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 
 
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 THE ARTICLES OF OUR PRODUCJiE AND MANUFACTURES 
 IN WHICH WE MAY NOW ^OPE TO EXTEND TRADE. 
 
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 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CANADIAN AGENCY IK AUS- 
 TRALASIA, FOR THE PURPOSE 6f FACILITATING 
 OUR TRADE AND COMMERCE WITH 
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 OF CANADA, 
 
 TREATING OF 
 
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 EXTENT AND VALUE OF THE TRADE WITH AUSTRALASIA. 
 
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 II. 
 
 .THE PORTION OF SAME DONE BY GREAT BRITAIN, THE 
 UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 
 
 III. 
 
 THE ARTICLES OF OUR PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES 
 
 IN WHICH WE MAY NOW HOPE TO EXTEND TRADE. 
 
 IV. 
 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CANADIAN AGENCY IN AUS- 
 TRALASIA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF FACILITATING 
 OUR TRADE AND COMMERCE WITH 
 THAT COUNTRY. 
 
 Bv 
 ALEXANDER WOODS, 
 
 Agent General from Canada to Australasia. 
 
 WINNIPK©: 
 Thk Makitobak PRiN-nuo Company, Limitku, , 
 
 1886. 
 
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 To The Merchants and Manufacturei's of Canada : — 
 Gentlemen — 
 
 The growth of manufacturing enterprises in Canada during 
 recent years has hcen rapid, perhaps more so than a health)' 
 competition on the limited home market would justify. Fortunately 
 the energetic policy pursued in railway construction has done much 
 to open up new fields for the settler, give employment to labor and 
 extend the market for manufacturers. 
 
 Ths completion of our great trans-continental railway will still 
 further open markets for our raw and manufactured products. 
 
 Having this in view, the Dominion Government has appointed me 
 "Agent General from Canada to Australasia." My primary business 
 is to develop closer commercial relations with that continent, to bring 
 the Canadian producer and Australian importer together, to let the 
 one know the wants of the other, to show the Australian buyer what 
 the Canadian can sell, to ailvise the Canadian producer as to the 
 styles and character of goods suitable, or which can be made suitable, 
 to the Australian trade, to give such advice or opinion on the com- 
 mercial standing of the firm^^ proposing to do business as may be 
 desired, so far as local knowledge may enable me ; thus to assist and 
 increase the ability of the Canadian deal'^jr to compete for the trade 
 and to do so with no more than the ordinary commercial risks. 
 
 With tlie object of more efi^ctually accomplishing the ends in 
 view, I propose to visit within a few weeks the principal centres of 
 manufacturiiig industry throughout the country, for the purpose of 
 meeting so many of the manufacturers as possible, placing this matter 
 before them and asking their co-operation. 
 
 The intention is to open a Canadian ofiice and sample warehouse 
 in one or more of the principal cities in the Australian colonies — in 
 the former to keep all such information about Canada as it may be 
 possible to supply through maps, directories, commercial journals, etc.; 
 in the latter to keep samples of such Canadian manufactures as may 
 be adapted to that country, price lists of same in Canada, with such 
 information as to freight and insurance as may be necessary to give 
 the purchaser delivered prices. Many samples of the same article but 
 by different makers, find prices of each, may be kept on hand, the 
 purchaser making lus selection. Duplicate samples of small portable 
 wares should be nent, as local brokers will^ take the goods in hand 
 with a view to making sal-^s, in the same manner as our commercial 
 travellers ; having obtained orders they could seud same direct to 
 manufacturer, giving the usual shipping directions and any necessary 
 references. 
 
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 Saniplt!8 will bo the property of tKo conni/^noes, subject only to tho 
 charges for fceight and insurance which niav have been paid by the 
 Government. (Jonsigninenta for sale cannot be received by mo, but I 
 will be happy to give such advice as may be desired as to responsible 
 and satisfactory firms to whom conaigninents may be made. In fiuB, 
 the object of tho Canadian Agency being, as stated, to assist in the 
 promotion of commercial intercourse between the tw(j countries, man- 
 uf.auturers and traders may use it in any way which will conduce to 
 that end. 
 
 Having thus briefly as possible pointed out the methods which 
 will be adopted tor the purpose in view, it may now be in order to 
 inquire the extent of the trade, particularly that portion done by 
 Great Britain, the United States and Canada, with some notes as to 
 the class of goods in which we may hope to compete with success, and 
 with tables giving in — 
 
 A. The exports to and imports from the United States by Austral- 
 asia of domestic merchandise for the year ending June 30th, 1 885. 
 
 B. The exports to and imp /ts from Great Britain by Australasia 
 of some of the principal articles for the year ending December 3 1st, 
 1884. 
 
 C. The exports to and imports from Canada by Australasia for 
 the year ending June 30th, 1885. 
 
 D. The trade of each colony with Great Britain, United States 
 and Canada, railway mileage and telegraph lines of Australia, public 
 lands owned by the several colonies, acreage and products of the 
 Australian wheat crop in each colony. 
 
 THE VALUE OF AUSTRALIAN TRADE. 
 Our exports to Australia have so far been insignificant. While 
 our total exports in 1885 were $89,238,361, of this only ;i^433,7l7 
 went to Australia, and of this latter only $1G5,393 were manufactured 
 goods ; indeed, our total exports of manufactured goods to all coun- 
 tries were in the same year only $3,181,501, not ecjual to the exports 
 from mines and lot half the value of the exports from our fisheries. 
 Hence it is time that we look abroad for other markets and facilities 
 for opening connections with them. The completion of the Canadian 
 Pacific Railway to Vancouver and the certainty that steam communi, 
 cation will be at once opened with New Zealand and New South 
 Wales opens to us a continent second to none in importance. Our 
 geographical position is about equal to that of the United States, the 
 lines of goods we produce are much the same as those of that country. 
 What, then, is to prevent our obtaining a larger share of the rade ? 
 Yet, in the past year, while we shipped to Australia (mly $433,717 
 worth of our pro<luce, the United States shipped $10,534,138 and 
 Great Britain the year previous about $134,195,000, The total 
 
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imports of the Australian Colonies — besides what may be called 
 intercolonial — are over 11^250,000,000 per unnuiu. Certainly Canada 
 has not dime her share, and no better fitiM is open for our enterprise. 
 
 To show the difficulties under which we havti l.ibored In the past 
 lor lack of direct communication and commer'.!ial intercourse, I may 
 give an instance. Visiting recently a frion<l who is a manufacturerof 
 tobacco in Quebec I oy)served some of the employees maiking tobtxcco 
 for Australia. Asking how this sale was made, the propi-ietor ^,^ated 
 that the order came unsolicited from a firm of Boston brokers on 
 account of a hou.se in London, England, and was for shipment via 
 Boston. My friend added that he was as.sured of more orders from 
 same quarter, and was satisfied that a direct connection would moan 
 a large trade in his goods. Another incident will illustrate. A paper 
 and papei bag manufacturer of Toronto, Ont., told me the other day 
 that his firm had exhibited in Sydney in 1879. After the exhibition 
 an order was received from a firm in that city for about $1,500 worth 
 of paper bags. No reference was given or remittance sent. As this 
 gentleman remarked, the parties were probably quite good, but they 
 had to decline the order pending some satisfactory I'tiferences, which 
 never came, the tinie taken up in correspondence no doubt causing its 
 discontinuance. 
 
 The Canadian Pacific Railway, or for more bulky and less valuable 
 classes of merchandise sailing vessels from the St. Lawrence on the 
 one hand, and the Canadian Agency on the other, will, it is hoped, meet 
 such diflBculties as in the cases just hoted. Before leaving this part of 
 the subject as to the comparative exports of (Canada, Great Britain and 
 the United States, I take the liberty of quoting from a trado letter on 
 this subject written by a gentleman whose name will long be remem- 
 bered by the merchants of Canada as a lucid, able and laborious 
 student and exponent of the course of our trade, a man whom many 
 with myself will ever remember as a kindly whole-souled friend, and 
 whose death the past week is mourned by all who knew him — Mr. 
 W. J. Patterson, Secretary of Montreal Board of Trade. He says, in 
 this letter published in 1876 : 
 
 " It must not be overlooked, however, that under the very general designation of 
 " ' Foreign Exports ' Canada should have credit for a considerable share of the trade done 
 "directly by Great Britain and the United States, how large a proportion cannot be deter- 
 " mined from the printed records ; for instance, after the letter on Australian trade was made 
 " public, I was informed by a gentleman in the trade that two of the most extensive boot 
 " and shoe manufacturers in the city were at work upon large orders for London, the goods 
 " to be sent thence to Australia ; also that assorted lots of doors and sashes, etc., besides 
 " lumber had been shipped monthly, sometimes semi-monthly, via United States ports for 
 "same destination." 
 
 One other extract I make from this letter wherein Mr. Patterson 
 
 makes a practical suggestion foreshadowing something approaching to 
 
 the plan now adopted by the Dominion Government as indicated in 
 
 these pages : 
 
 " Perhaps the most effective way to tap the commerce of the Australian Colonies would 
 " be, in the first instance, to establish a ' Canadian Ventures Association for promoting 
 
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 *' trade with Australia;' the linen of merch:in(li»c mvntioneH in the tnl)lesin<Hca)c with siiflfici 
 ** eiil ch-arnesH who mijjht he the venturers, were a thoroin;h business man, one peruonaliy 
 " Conversant with the trade intcrcsta of the C'olonieN, appointed to act as a^jent for such a 
 "ho<ly of men, each assisting to meet the rc(|jiremcnts of the jHrojile there. He could j;ivc 
 "special attention to the interests of the memhcr«, of the Aasociation and generally do much 
 " to extend the commercial relations of Cwiada in that far otT region." 
 
 It will bo seen that the progre.ssivo and enlightt'nod policy .shown 
 by the Dominion Government in this matt<ir, toj^tither with the intel- 
 ligent and entc-i prising spirit of the Canadian Pacitic Railway which 
 will be in a position to offer freight intlucements of a satisfactory char- 
 acter, will go far to give without cost, the Canadian meichant and 
 manufacturer all and nmch more than all the advantages contemplat<;d 
 by the suggested "Venturers' Association " 
 
 SOME LINES OF MERCHANDISE AVAILABLE FOll EXl'OKT. 
 
 Agrir/idtiiral Imjilementa : — 
 
 Our shipments to Australia in 1885 as per trade and navigation 
 returns, wevc of the extravagant value of S256, while that of the 
 Unite<l States for the same period was $244,.'M0. In 1870 the latter 
 was $159,025. 
 
 Australia offers an ever-widening market for goods of this descrip- 
 tion and such only as are the best oi their kinds. Among others may 
 be noted reapers, mowers and banders, seeders, threshers, hay cutters, 
 corn planters, hay rakes, plows, hairows, straw cutters, etc. 
 
 Ashes, Pot and Pearl: — p 
 
 Shipments fron* United States . T. $ 4(),273 
 
 " " Great Britain not specified. 
 
 These figures are for 1885, as are also the others following so far 
 as they relate to the United States and (.anada; for Great BiTit|iin they 
 deal with 1884 which are the latest accessible returns. 
 
 Apples : — ♦ 
 
 Shipments from United States — Dried, value, ^80,028 ; Green, 
 9,861 barrels, value, $37,246. 
 
 Blacking : — 
 
 Shipments from Unite«l States $ 25,263 
 
 " " Great Britain not specified. ^ 
 
 Boolcs, Maps, Engraving and other printed matter : — 
 
 • Shipments from United States % 12-i,940 
 
 " Great Britain 1,005,000 
 
 " Canada 84,691 
 
Hoots (ind Slioen — Ruhhfv dooilM : — 
 
 Shipments from United States $ 4K,422 
 
 liDntn (iTid ShoPM — Leaf her' : — 
 
 Shipments from United States ; $ 367 
 
 " " Ormi Hritaiu .*},()( I'), 000 
 
 How is it that tin latter country lias such a uionopoly of this trade ? 
 The Province of QucIkh; has made immense strides in the industry la 
 the secret in the- fact of non- intercourse witli Australia, or in our not 
 adapting our goods to the uoahU or taste of a country so English in its 
 haltits ? The course of this trade is the more striking wIhmi we rismem- 
 her that the past three years have seen a largo increase in the <!xport 
 l>y us of sole and u{)per leatlier, whicli Itust year was about $.')()(),( )()() 
 tor the most part to England, and about double what it was in 18M4. 
 Do we send the raw material to England for manufacture because we 
 know so little of, and have had so little connnunication with the coun- 
 tries where these goods are sold ? But besides staiding our leather to 
 Iilngland, it is a curious fact that we send to that country large quan- 
 tities of boots and shoes, some of which possibly go to make up their 
 exports to Australia. A leading boot and shoe firm of Montreal has 
 for the ])ast ten years sent one of their travellers regularly twice a 
 year to England and Oermany to solicit orders for their manufactures, 
 it is to be presumed with success, or it is fair to suppose that other- 
 wise, the route would be abandoned. 
 
 Beer and Ale: — 
 
 Shipments by Great Britain $5,520,000 
 
 United States 74,385" 
 
 ^Carriages and Horse Carts, also pnHs : — 
 
 P'lipments l»y United States $ 388,331 
 
 Canada should be able to compete in this line with pnjfit. 
 
 Waitings for Sausages : — 
 
 Shipments by United States $ 90,633 
 
 lordage and Twvne : — 
 
 Shipments by United States $ 26,138 
 
 lover Seed : — 
 Shipments by United Statf a $ 31,198 
 
 "Jutto^h Manufactured Goods ; — 
 
 Shipments by Great Britain $9,260,000 
 
 United States 66,677 
 
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 Fish— All Sorts :— 
 
 Shipments by the United States % 82,950 
 
 Caiiatla »l,l».i 
 
 With proper facilities for transit the Australian market for this 
 article may be grea^' • extended. 
 
 Fruit GiV fined : — 
 
 Shipment by United States S 102,504 
 
 Glassware — not window : — 
 
 Shipments by United States . . . '. S 71,889 
 
 Harness end Saddlery : — 
 
 Shipments by Grea;, Britain « 645,000 
 
 United States 31,820 
 
 Leather — All Sorts : — 
 
 Shipments by United States $ 216,497 
 
 Lamps and Devices for lUriminating :— 
 
 Shipments by United States * 73,961 
 
 Locomotives : — 
 
 Shipments by United States, 20, value S 140,000 
 
 Stotionery Engines : — 
 
 Shipments by United States. H, value . ■ • ^ 9.205 
 
 Boilers and parts of Engines : — 
 
 Shipments by United States ;•••/; ^a c^^c^Ta. 
 
 Great Britain (all sorts and parts) 6,920,000 
 
 Machinery not Elsewhere SpeciHed : — 
 
 Shipments by the United States $ ^ll'Sl 
 
 Canvla 32,063 
 
 Musical hmruments : — 
 
 Shipments by United States— Organs 2,354, value .. $ 738,918 
 
 « " " Pianos 37, value . . "0,863 
 
 « " •' Partis 3,907 
 
 " Canada — Organs 8,350 
 
 Kails and Spthis : — 
 
 Shipment,^ frr)m United Statas % 19,073 
 
 " Great Britain, not specified 
 
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 ►Shipments by the United States— Lard $ 12 201 
 
 Whale and fish.... 5l\]64> 
 
 Naphtha 30,233 
 
 " /" Illuminating 912,986 
 
 Lubricating 39,587 
 
 $1,04(J,C71 
 
 Canada has had so far no share in thi;: important trade, though I 
 am assured by a manufacturer from Petroleathat 45,000 bbls. of ''lub- 
 ricating oil are annually exported from Canada to the United States. 
 
 Seed oil was exported to Australia by England in the year 1884 to 
 the value of $540,000. 
 
 Railway Gars, Passenger and Freirfht : — 
 
 Shipments from United States in 1885 ; $ 86,614 
 
 None from Canada that year. In 1884 $50,000 worth of freight 
 cars were purchased and shipped from London, Ontario, wiihsatisfec- 
 tion to all the parties concerned. 
 
 Roofing Slate : — 
 
 Shipments from United States '. $ 44,950 
 
 Refined Sttgar : — 
 
 Shipments from United States $ 601,568 
 
 Saws and Tools: — 
 
 Shipments from United States $ 360,879 
 
 Scales and Balances : — 
 
 Shipments from United States $ 14,53^ 
 
 Sewr Machines: — 
 
 baipments from United States $ 129 624 
 
 Canada , , '31 
 
 Stoves, Rfinges and Parts : — 
 
 Shipments from United Stc^ces $ 45,019 
 
 Tin — Manufactures of: — 
 
 Shipments from United States $ 9,382 
 
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 Tobacco: — 
 
 Shipments from United States : — ' 
 
 Cigars S 8,012 
 
 Cigarettes 104,561 
 
 And other manufactured 931,561 
 
 $1,044,134 
 
 Trunks and Vali'ies : — 
 
 Shipments from United States % 19,010 
 
 Vegetables ; — 
 
 SFiipments from United States — 
 
 Onions S 5,848 
 
 Peas 1,009 
 
 Canned vegetables 8,443 
 
 $ 14,300 
 Vessels : — 
 
 Shipments from United States — sailing vessels, 1,157 
 
 tons, value $ 14,600 
 
 Shipments from Canada 31,000 
 
 [Vood — Manufactures of:— 
 
 Shipments from United States — 
 
 Boards, deals and planks, % 840,132 
 
 Joist, lath, paling, box-shooks, etc 83,967 
 
 Doors, sashes and blinds 156,516 
 
 Mouldings, trinnnings and other house finishings 62,071 
 
 Household furniture and other wooden ware .... 622,100 
 
 $1,764,786 
 Shipments from Canada — 
 
 Planks S 165,036 
 
 Other lumber, 31,976 
 
 ^)oors and sashes, 1,300 
 
 $ 188,312 
 
 For furtlier information as to exports co Australia by the several 
 countries noted, the tables on pages 13 to 20 may be consulted. Besides 
 the goods appearing in the customs returns as sent to the Colonies, 
 there can be no doubt that they offer a tempting market for some of 
 the grains and other produce of our Northwest Provinces. 
 
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 Oats:— 
 
 Oats might be quoted in this category. The ruling value in Aus- 
 tralia is from ('>'2(i. to 75c. per bushel. Oatmeal is about $4.50 per cwt.; 
 20 cents pe: jushel will land oats from Manitoba to the Pacific Coast 
 via Canada Pacific Railway. Vessel room will be alK)ui 10 cents per 
 bushel to Sydney or Melbouiiie, Jow enough to leave; a good margin 
 on prevailing prices here. 
 
 Butter: — 
 
 Ruling price in Australia 25 cents for pastry up to 50 cents for 
 good. The course of trade in this article in the past, and the course it 
 is destined to take in the future, is a striking illustration of the wis- 
 dom of pushing through our Canadian trunk line to the Pacific, and 
 how greatly our farming community is interested in its completion, par- 
 ticularly the farmers of the Northwest. British export tables are so 
 lacking in details that many articles are grouped under general heads ; 
 thus no figures are given for showing exports of butter to Australia; 
 none appears to go from the Unite'^'. States, the home market in New 
 York, Boston or San Francisco keeping the price too high for profit- 
 able export. The bulk of what is consumed in the Colonies thus comes 
 from Great Britain and Ireland. The dairy product of the Northwest 
 will this year more than*supply the local demand but without railway 
 connection with the Pacific the exports must go east to Montreal, 
 thence to Liverpool or London, thence to Australia. Winnipeg iir as 
 near and freight will be as low to Vancouver as to Montreal. Our ship- 
 pers can save time, freight and the charges of middle men by shipping 
 on through Bill of Lading to Australia, and there find for this and many 
 of our products such a market as will add value to every acre of arable 
 land in the Northwest. Tin-lined tubs for butter are now bemg 
 largely sold. A few cents per pa';kage will solder a tin lining inside 
 the cover and give such a package as coDtaining the excellent article 
 usually produced by our dairies, will compete on the markets of the 
 Orient with butter from the Green Isle, which usually sells at the 
 highest price. The prevailing price in Manitoba is from 15c. to 20c. 
 The possibilities of trade in this article are undeniable. 
 
 Eggs:— 
 
 These sell at 2 shillings or 50 cents per dozen, and other produce 
 which need not here be detailed cannot fail to give freight to our 
 national highway a market to our farmers, and prove to the latter that 
 after all a through road to the Pacific is a greater boon to the prairie 
 section than they anticipated. 
 
 lietut'n Freights : — 
 
 Our imports from Australia have so far been practically nil, hence 
 return cargoes for vessels which may take out freight from the St. 
 Lawrence cannot be counted on. The exports by Australia are in tho 
 
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 iiitein hides and skins, gums and gum renins, tin, in bar, block, pigs or 
 granulated, opium, coal, wheat, meat, copper ore, tallow, gold and the 
 great staple wool. No doubt a direct trade of some importance may 
 be done In the last mentioned ai'ticle, but for the bulk of such goods 
 England is the market; yet even this disa<l\antage to sea-going freight 
 is not serious. The usual course is for United States or Canadian 
 vessels, when discharged, to proceed to N(!wcastle, New South Wales, 
 for coal for China, California, or other countries, or to England with 
 other staple pi'oduf.tf of the country, taking a freighii for this contin- 
 ent from there. The United States in this respect have to contend 
 with like difficulties, an 1 it is notewortiiy that while the exports from 
 the United States to Australia in 1885 were $10,534,138, they were 
 only $3,884,866 in 1876, and $9,225,450 in 1884, an increase during 
 the year 1885 of $1,308,679. At the same time the imports by the 
 United States from Australia in 1884 were $4,373,465, and in 1885 
 $2,823,393, or a decrease of $1,550,072 in the last year; we thus see 
 that the United States sell to Australia over four times as much as 
 they purchase. We need have no fear but that Canada can make an 
 equal record to this ; once our intercourse and knowledge of its pro- 
 ducts enable our merchants to purchase intelligently our imports will 
 bear a fair proportion to oui- exports. 
 
 I will now bring this letter to a close, hoping that I have shown 
 w^ith something like conclusiveness : — 
 
 1st. That the magnitude of the trade with the Antif >des, of which 
 so large a share is done by, Great Britain and the United States in 
 articles which we can produce to advantage, presents an extraordinary 
 field for our merchants and manufacturers. 
 
 2nd. That the steps taken by the Dominion Government to facili- 
 tate our trade relations with that continent are businesslike and 
 praiseworthy, meriting the support and co-operation of the classes 
 named. 
 
 3rd. That many of the products of our farms, our fisheries and our 
 factories, by our taking advantage of the facilities now offered, may 
 find a natural and continually increasing market which will tend to 
 the prosperity of all. 
 
 Hoping that our all-powerful friend, the press, will aid in my work 
 by bringing the subject of this letter prominently before the public, so 
 that when visiting the many manuiacturing districts to seek the 
 co-operation reqrired, I may meet gentlemen already.eonversant with 
 the matter and ready to fall in with the suggestions lierein containeo. 
 
 I am, gentlemen, yours respectfully, 
 
 A. WOODS, 
 Agent-Oeneral from Canada to Australasia. 
 Winnipeg, 24th June, 1886. 
 
18 
 
 TABLE A. 
 
 Exports of Domestic Mercha. disc by the United States to Australasia for the year ending 
 June 30th, 1885, and imports by the United Stfites from Australasia of goods, the 
 produce of the latter, for the same period. 
 
 Exports to'Austrat,asia. 
 
 Value. 
 Agricultural Implements, — 
 
 Mowers, Reapers and parts 131,261 
 
 Plows, Cultivators and parts 5,917 
 
 Other parts not specified . . 107,132 
 
 Horses 1,500 
 
 Other animals ii id fowls.... 300 
 
 Works of art, paintings, etc. 3,822 
 
 Billiard and jxiol tables .... 1,178 
 
 Blacking 25,263 
 
 Books, maps, engraving and 
 
 other printed matter 124,940 
 
 Brass and manufactures of . . 7,616 
 
 Bread and biscuit 3,616 
 
 Indian *corn 10,586 
 
 All other bread stuffs ind 
 
 preparations of . . 66,805 
 
 Broom corn 43,930 
 
 Brooms and brushes 48,422 
 
 Carriages, horse carts and parts 388,331 
 Railway cars, passenger and 
 
 freight 86,514 
 
 Casings for sausages 90,633 
 
 Ashes, pot end pearl 2,330 
 
 Medicines, prtent and propri- 
 etory 271,699 
 
 Roots, herb^ and barks 24.004 
 
 Other drugs and medicines.. 124,235 
 
 Clocks and parts of 1 14,722 
 
 Watches and parts of 1,194 
 
 Coffee and cocoa or chocolate 1,188 
 Cotton and manufactures of — 
 
 Colored 3,047 
 
 Uncolored 45,662 
 
 Wearing apparel 6,563 
 
 Other manufactures of 1^,400 
 
 Perfumery and cosmetics.... 9,922 
 
 Toys 12,439 
 
 Oi">er fancy articles 2^539 
 
 Fish, smoked and cured, in- 
 cluding Haddock, Hake 
 
 and Pollock 25,456 
 
 Salmon, canned 12,292 
 
 Fish, dried and smoked, not 
 
 elsewhere specified 1,643 
 
 Fish, pickled 9,135 
 
 Shell fish— 
 
 Gyaters 11,043 
 
 Other 23,479 
 
 Carried forward £1 ,886,647 
 
 Imports from Australasia. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Dye woods in sticks 18,239 
 
 Gums and gum resins 867,123 
 
 Hides and skins 29,787 
 
 Medicinal seeds 3,690 
 
 Tin, — in bar, block, pigs or 
 
 granulated 464,184 
 
 Wheat 1,219 
 
 Opium prepared for smoking. 250,333 
 
 Coal, bituminous 632,298 
 
 IMolasses 4,254 
 
 Wool, unmanufactured 491,968 
 
 Carpet and other similar wools 1,858 
 
 Total direct impr.rts to U. S. . ?2,635,231 
 
 Through foreign ports 188,163 
 
 Carried forward 12,823,303 
 
14 
 
 TABLE A.— Continued. 
 
 Exports to Australasia. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 Cordage 
 
 Twine 
 
 Other hemp manufactures . . 
 
 Apples — 
 
 Drfed 
 
 Green or ripe 9861 bbl 
 
 Fruits — 
 
 Canned . , 
 
 Other green, dried or ripe fruit 
 
 Glassware, not window 
 
 Glucose or grape sugar 
 
 Glue 
 
 Grease, scrap and soap stock 
 
 Gunpowder 
 
 Other explosives , . . 
 
 Hair and manufactures of . . . . 
 
 Honey 
 
 Hops 
 
 Rubber boots and shoes 
 
 Other rubber goods 
 
 Ink, printer's and other 
 
 Instruments, (telegraph, tele- 
 phone and scientific 
 
 Car wheels 
 
 Castings, not specified 
 
 Cutlery 
 
 Firearms 
 
 Builders' hardware 
 
 Machinery not elsewhera^ 
 
 specified 
 
 Nails and spikes 
 
 Printing presses and parts.. 
 
 Saws and tools 
 
 Scales and balances 
 
 Sewing machines and parts . , 
 
 Locomotives (20) 
 
 Stationery engines (8) . , 
 
 Boilers and parts of engines . . 
 
 Stoves, ranges and parts 
 
 Wire 
 
 Other manufactures of 
 
 and steel 
 
 Manufactured jewelry, gold 
 
 and silver 
 
 Lamps and devices for illum- 
 inating 
 
 Lead and manufactures of . . . . 
 Leather, buflF, grain, split and 
 
 upper 
 
 Leather, patent or enamelled 
 Sole and other leather 
 
 Carried forward 4,569,267 
 
 iron 
 
 Value. 
 1,886,647 
 
 3,786 
 22,352 
 
 5,200 
 
 80,028 
 37,246 
 
 102,604 
 
 6,006 
 
 74,889 
 
 3,243 
 
 1,341 
 
 17,481 
 
 3,785 
 
 8,841 
 
 5,371 
 
 12,091 
 
 25,354 
 
 10,009 
 
 36,051 
 
 7,280 
 
 7,445 
 4,893 
 
 17,928 
 1,365 
 
 17,423 
 273,212 
 
 676,475 
 19,073 
 12,860 
 
 360,87P 
 14,532 
 
 129,624 
 
 140,000 
 
 9,206 
 
 5,876 
 
 45,019 
 
 38,606 
 
 238,783 
 
 17,407 
 
 73.961 
 4,096 
 
 147,161 
 49,446 
 16,795 
 
 Imports from Australasia. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 Value. 
 «2,823,.393 
 
 Carried forward $2,823,393 
 
15 
 TABLE h.~Vontinmd. 
 
 Exports to Australasia. 
 
 Brought forward 
 
 Boots and shoes 
 
 Harness and saddlery . . . . " 
 Other manufactured leather!! 
 
 Lhne and cement 
 
 Majt liquors in bottles, 36093 
 ddeen 
 
 Mo.rble and stone unmanufac- 
 tured 
 
 Roofing slate ! ! ! ! ! 
 
 All other not specified . . . ! 
 Musical Instruments, — 
 
 Organs, 2354 
 
 Pianos, 37 
 
 All others and parts of 
 
 Resin 
 
 Tai " ■■■ 
 
 Oils,— 
 
 Lard 
 
 Whale and fish ...!!.!!! 
 Kaphtha,includingall I'ghter 
 products of distillation . . 
 
 Illuminating 
 
 Lubricating and heavy par- 
 
 afine 
 
 Cotton-seed 
 
 Volatile and essential .... 
 Paints and painters colors . . ." 
 I'aper—hanging, writing and 
 
 envelopes 
 
 Other oaper 
 
 Plated ware !!.!!! 
 
 Beef, canned 
 
 Hams 
 
 Poultry !!!!!!!!!! 
 
 Other meat products 
 
 Quicksilver ! 
 
 ^'"lover seed 
 
 Timothy seed 
 
 All other seed ,\ 
 
 Silk, manufactures of 
 
 Soap — 
 
 Toilet and fancy. .... 
 
 Other . .!!! 
 
 Spirits^— 
 
 Alcohol 
 
 Whiskey 
 
 Spirits of turpentine . . . 
 
 Starch 
 
 Stationery, except paper 
 
 Stereotype plates 
 
 Molasses 
 
 Carried forward 6,535,688 
 
 Value. 
 
 4,569,257 
 
 397 
 
 31,820 
 
 18,626 
 
 27,683 
 
 74,386 
 
 1,663 
 44,950 
 66,464 
 
 138,918 
 10,863 
 
 3,907 
 63,338 
 
 1,460 
 
 12,201 
 61,664 
 
 30,233 
 912,968 
 
 39,587 
 3,203 
 1,210 
 
 30,164 
 
 1,4^4 
 
 1.9,823 
 
 130,219 
 
 12,306 
 
 2,812 
 
 1,700 
 23,052 
 
 4,103 
 31,198 
 
 1,904 
 26,356 
 
 2,471 
 
 3,296 
 2,834 
 
 2,709 
 
 1,866 
 93,027 
 
 2,634 
 10,922 
 
 7,705 
 28,456 
 
 Imports from Australasia. 
 
 Brought forward , 
 
 Value . 
 82,828,393 
 
 Carried forward |2,823 c 
 
 13 
 
 e: 
 
16 
 
 TABLE A.— Continued. 
 
 Exports to Australasia. 
 
 Value 
 
 Brought forward ^^'S^'SS 
 
 Sugar, refined 
 
 Candy and confectionery 
 Tin, manufactures of.... 
 Tobacco, manufactures of— ^^^ 
 
 Leaf . ' ' 
 
 Cigars 
 
 601,568 
 2,94'2 
 9,382 
 
 8,012 
 104,98.S 
 
 §fefr.„>;f«.«ed...... w.»i 
 
 Trunks, valises and bags 
 
 Varnish 
 
 ^'egetables — 
 
 Onions 
 
 Peas and beans 
 
 Canned .... •• • 
 
 Vessels, sailing • • • 
 
 Wood and manufactures ol 
 
 Boards, deals and planks . 
 
 Joists and scantling 
 
 Palings, pickets and bed-slats 
 
 Box shocks _ ^^^^ 
 
 Staves and headmgs aVrOI 
 
 19,010 
 8,010 
 
 6,848 
 
 1,019 
 
 8,443 
 
 14,600 
 
 840,132 
 1,992 
 15,952 
 8,592 
 4,412 
 5,395 
 
 3,823 
 
 AH other lumber 
 
 Logs and other limber iRfiMfl 
 
 Doors, sash and blinds ■ 156,616 
 
 Mouldings, trimmings, ana 
 other house hmshings...- „^f'o^ 
 
 Household furniture. 
 
 Wo den ware • • 
 
 AH other manufactured wood 
 Wearing apparel 
 
 68,344 
 192,526 
 7,374 
 
 rotal £10.534.138 
 
 Imports from Australasia. 
 
 Value 
 Brought forward f2,823,.393 
 
 Total, imports by U. S. |2,823,393 
 
Caiutbiitn 6obcnimcnt, 
 
 AUSTRALIAN AGENCY, 
 
 >iW/vVvtJv. V^l-Vv S{^h ^'^^^-' 
 
 (>^ l^ tyvJWy^'^ ol CANADIAN TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA 
 
 W\J]( t^CVU l^Xo^VvVyCvW^lA/y/"^ (A Qv CANADIAN AGENCY, >^ 
 
I' 
 
 , TAHLEB. 
 
 i:x,x.rls ,o Au.s,raln.sb of some of the principnl .uticlcH of British nn.l Irish produce and 
 manufacture, frnn. the United Kingdo.n for the year ending Dec.n.her 3 8,^ „" 
 
 Exports to Australasia. 
 
 Heer and ale 
 
 Spirits, British and Irish..." 
 
 Cotton, manufactured piece 
 
 goo^s 
 
 Linen, manufactured piece 
 goods 
 
 Silk, broad stuff, silk aiid 
 
 s.itin 
 
 Ribbon.s 
 
 Other articles of silk only. . . . 
 Other articles of silk an 1 
 
 other material 
 
 Woolen and worsle.i manu- 
 factnres fabrics or mixed 
 
 coatings,etc 
 
 VVorated fabrics, coatings, etc 
 
 Carpet.s, not bemg rugs 
 
 Metals and manufactures 
 thereof except machinery — 
 Hardware and cutlery, un- 
 
 enumerated 
 
 Bar iron, bolt or rod 
 
 Railroad iron and steel 
 
 Hoop, sheets, boiler and 
 armor plate, including 
 
 galvanized sheet 
 
 Tin plates and sheets 
 
 Cast anfl wrought and all 
 
 other manufactures unenu- 
 
 merated, except ordinance 
 
 Lead— pig, sheet, piping and 
 
 manufactured 
 
 Machinery and mill work, 
 steam engines and parts 
 
 thereof 
 
 Other descriptions 
 
 Ajjparel and articles of per- 
 sonal use 
 
 Api)arel & ready-made cloth- 
 ing 
 
 Haberdashery, millinery and 
 
 needle work 
 
 Leather — 
 
 Boots and Shoes 
 
 Bags and sacks for packing 
 Cement 
 
 Value. 
 
 £504,207 
 381), (i05 
 
 1,862,510 
 
 454,669 
 
 49,587 
 36,708 
 24,515 
 
 52,822 
 
 1,081,390 
 249,161 
 198,077 
 
 604,669 
 319,005 
 749,052 
 
 986,064 
 105,340 
 
 1,059,909 
 62,910 
 
 538,764 
 846,042 
 
 1,896,050 
 
 604,952 
 
 713,346 
 38,323 
 
 182,188 
 
 Imi'ort'.. from Australasia. 
 
 Value. 
 
 D'^t*' £ '^,094,381 
 
 Meat preserved otherwise 
 
 than by salting 309,197 
 
 Mutton, fresh 820,263 
 
 Metals — 
 
 Copper unwrought an 1 part 
 
 unwrought 551,423 
 
 i m, m blocks, ingots, bars and 
 
 slnbs 791 194 
 
 Wool, sheep and lambs 19,952i546 
 
 llKles, wet 160 661 
 
 Tallow and sterine 690,369 
 
 Leather^ hides tanned, or in 
 
 any way dressed, goat and 
 
 sheep skins 591,822 
 
 Total £27,161,756 
 
 Carried forward £13,699.864 ( Carried forward £2"7,161,766 
 
18 
 
 TAHLE B. (lontinued. 
 
 Exi'ORTs tROM Australasia. 
 
 IMIORTS FROM AUSTRALASIA, 
 
 Value. 
 
 Brought forward.* £13,599,864 
 
 Earthenware, chinawarc par- ._„ ,^. 
 
 ian and pijrcelain fno fa!. 
 
 Oil— Seed oil 1UM,1»^ 
 
 Paper— Writing, printing and 
 
 enveloped Wo.SlJ 
 
 Paper-Xu uther 02,04« 
 
 Saddlery and harness jL^'om 
 
 Stationery other than paper . . ^JL^'^l 
 Other articles, about ______ 
 
 The total being £24,216,452 
 
 Value. 
 Brought forward £27,161,7.'i(i 
 
 Total £27,161,7oti 
 
 TABLE C. 
 period. 
 
 Exports to Australasia. 
 
 $ 
 
 Value. 
 
 110 
 120 
 
 Coal 
 
 Stone 
 
 Salmon- 
 Canned 
 
 Pickled 
 
 Logs, spruce 
 
 Deals — 
 
 Pine 
 
 Spruce 
 
 Ends 
 
 pranks".".'. '.'.'. '.'.'.".■■ V 155,036 
 
 Scantling **' 
 
 All other lumber... 
 
 Masts and spars ' 
 
 Agricultural implements 
 
 Books 
 
 Machinery 
 
 Sewing machines 
 
 Hardware 
 
 Boots and shoes • • 
 
 Organs 
 
 Pianos 
 
 Ships - 
 
 Doors and sashes 
 
 Other manufactures of lumber 
 
 Other articles 
 
 57,571 
 
 913,622 
 
 40 
 
 5,231 
 
 8,449 
 
 136 
 
 15,915 
 
 1,532 
 
 140 
 
 266 
 
 84,591 
 
 32,063 
 
 31 
 
 379 
 
 50 
 
 8,350 
 
 250 
 
 31.000 
 
 1,300 
 
 100 
 
 7,023 
 
 Imports from AostRALASiA. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Settlers' effects $ SOJ 
 
 Jewelry of gold ^^'^ 
 
 Prepared meats 
 
 Tin in blocks, pigs and bars 
 
 Articles for use of Dominion 
 
 Government 
 
 9t)() 
 l.l'Jli 
 
 Total $433,717 
 
 Total 
 
 $3,825 
 
19 
 
 TABLK I). 
 
 Statement showing goods exported to nnd impo.-ted from each of the Australasian Colonies 
 in 1882 by the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, the first named in 
 iterling, and the others in dollars. 
 
 F tV SOUTH WALES. 
 
 Exports to 
 
 Hy United Kin(;dom. 
 " United States... 
 
 Value. 
 
 .£ll,l5fi,917 
 l«86,171 
 
 iMHORTii hKOM 
 
 By United Kingdom. 
 " United States . . . 
 
 Value. 
 . . »«7«.5»l 
 
 VICTORIA. 
 
 Exports to 
 
 Value. 
 
 Hy United Kingdom £8,980,420 
 
 " Canada $ .'18,052 
 
 " United States 080,863 
 
 Imports from 
 
 Value. 
 
 By United Kingdom £7,763,065 
 
 " United States $38,744 
 
 south AUSTRALIA. 
 
 Exports to 
 
 Value, 
 
 By United Kingdom £3,466,484 
 
 " United States *21»,161 
 
 Imports from 
 
 Value. 
 By United Kingdom £3,000,886 
 
 WESTERN AU.STRALIA. 
 
 Exports to 
 
 By United Kingdom. 
 
 Value. 
 £175,058 
 
 Imports from 
 
 . Value. 
 
 By United Kingdom £:m,388 
 
 TASMANIA. 
 
 Exports to 
 
 By United Kingdom. 
 
 Value. 
 £379,(H7 
 
 Imports krobi 
 
 By Unitetl Kingdom , 
 
 Value. 
 £396,103 
 
20 
 
 TABLE D.~Con(inued. 
 
 NEW ZBALANn. 
 
 Exports to 
 
 Value. 
 
 By United Kingdom £5,563,324 
 
 " United States «463,4S>3 
 
 Imports from 
 
 Value. 
 
 By United Kingdom x;4,70it,a3 
 
 " United 3tates $434,tj.S4 
 
 I km. 
 
 
 \m 
 
 QUEENSLAND. 
 
 Exports to 
 
 Imports from 
 
 Ty United Kingdom . . 
 *( United States 
 
 Value. 
 
 . £2,053 370 
 . $101,880 
 
 V Value. 
 
 By Unitea Kingdom £l,2SK),.'i7!l 
 
 TAlBLE showing mileage of Avistralasian railways, telegraph lines, extent in each Colony of 
 public lands unalienated, acreage under wheat crop and produce in 1882 (being the 
 latest obtainable.) 
 
 Railways in operation in 1882 6,071 iiik^ 
 
 Telegraph lines in operation in 1882 30,767 " 
 
 LANDS UrALlENATan. 
 
 New South Wales 158,484,233 ;u:res 
 
 Victoria ; 43,390,221 ' 
 
 South Australia 568,024,004 • 
 
 Western Australia 638,311,022 ' 
 
 Tasmania 12,483,965 " 
 
 New Zealand 50,181,737 
 
 Queensland 422,543,959 ' 
 
 Total . . , 1,893,419,141 ; u. 
 
 ACRlfcAGB UNDER WHEAT AND PRODUCE IN 1882. 
 
 Acies. Produce. 
 
 New South Wales 247,361 4,042,395 bus! ds 
 
 Victoria 969,362 8,751,454 
 
 South Australia 1,746,531 7,366,117 
 
 Western Australia 22,718 249,898 
 
 Tasmania -. 46,721 946,889 
 
 New Zealand 390,818 10,270 591 
 
 Queensland ,........, 10,494 145,762 
 
 Totals 3,-134,005 31,768,096 bushels 
 
Value. 
 
 *4,7ojt,;m 
 
 $434,»).S4 
 
 Value. 
 £1,29(),:)7!» 
 
 cli Colony of 
 2 (being the 
 
 6,071 miles 
 30,767 " 
 
 84,233 acres 
 
 !K),22l •• 
 
 24,004 • 
 
 11.022 ' 
 
 J3,966 " 
 ^1,737 
 
 t3,95» ' 
 
 19,141 : m 
 
 ice. 
 
 ,396 bustifls 
 
 464 
 
 117 
 
 898 
 
 8fi9 " ' 
 
 r»9i 
 
 762 
 
 096 bushels 
 
w ■