We have received a letter signed by the terrifying inscription, "The Shareholders of Improvements of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, which is full of distinctly uncomplimentary remarks regarding the mess of the concern, and particularly its directers and officials. Inquiries were made in several {directions and it can only be that it seems very evident that the company just vow is as peaceable almost as it was in the most New Zealand I'xports to the Far East Melbourne, May 19.
Ata recent meeting of the Domi-: nion Executive of the New Zealand farmers' Union, held in Wellington, a letter was received from the Registrar of Imports and Exports, Singapore, dealing with the possibilities of the sale of New Zealand {produce there. The writer pointed out that there were no direct: shipping facilities from New Zealand to the Straits Settlements, and if wholesale prices were the same in New Zealand as in Australia, and the goods had to be shipped vid Australia, it was probable that the extra freight would render the business impossible.
Mr. C. J. Rumkin, a recent arrival from China, addressed the meeting, and expressed the view that Shanghai was the best port to which smal] trial shipments of tinned meat might be sent from New Zealand. He emphasized the importance of samples being first_sent to different suitable potrts.—Reu-. ter.
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