Show AUSTRALIA S TRADE The complet On of the Panama canal and the European war ombined prob ably furn sh the reason for the appear ance of P E Quinn deputj trade com m ssioner ot kew South Wales in Jtewj york Mr Qu nn w 11 open an. oft ice n the Amer Can metropol s and set to work on a plan to establ sh better trade elat ons between h s home country and the east coast of the Un ted State' It is his purpose to establish d rect steam sh p communicat on between Isew lork and Sydney and t s to be presumed there is capital behind him If hot there should be 1 ttle diff culty in secur ing the necessary backing in th 9 coun try if it can be shown that there is any cons derable amount of trade wa t ng for us in the Antipodes Austral a is one of the principal Br t sh colonies and all tho enterprises in that Country have been financed ini London up to a very recent date Nat urally the bulk of the trade of the South Sea islands ha9 gone to the Brit sh merchants and manufacturers But time brings many changes and just now the world looks to New lork for eapi tal and to the United States as a mar ket We have imported wool from Aus tralia for many years but settlement has always been made through London The b s ness vill be done d rect here after and if a steamship company is arranged the cargoes will also come1 d rect We have been import ng beef and mutton from Australia of late years and one American packer has a plaUt over there But taken as a whole this trade s ins gnificant and since the war began meats of all k nds have been sh pped from Austral a to Great Br t a n The go e nment also put an em bargo upon the sh pments of wool to th 3 country though we bel eve there was some relaxat on of th a order There are any number of articles Of commerce the exporters of this country can furn sh the Australians if given an even break w th the British ex porters It looks as though we might be given such opportunity at least as long as the war lasts |