Warsaw Wool Fair. 



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river ports to load will now be able to obtain their cargoes at 

 Buenos Ayres, the cost of freight to that port by railway 

 being, it is presumed, calculated to be under that of the cost 

 of freight and expenses of a steamer to up-river ports (under 

 existing conditions). The expenses caused by vessels going up 

 in ballast to load, and the delay in loading at those ports plus 

 possible delay caused by heavily-laden steamers getting into 

 shallow water in a falling river, will thus be saved. It is 

 contended that elevators might be advantageously situated 

 at various points of the river close to the wheat-growing 

 districts, and thus a second handling of the grain be 

 avoided. One of the principal results of the erection of 

 elevators in Buenos Ayres will be the facilities afforded for the 

 loading of grain in bulk, and thus a saving of time and 

 expense for all concerned. The Consul adds : " I feel safe in 

 asserting that in a few years from now no more wheat or 

 maize will be shipped from this port in bags than is abso- 

 lutely necessary to fulfil the loading regulations prescribed 

 by the authorities." 



[Foreign Office, Annual Series, 26 15.] 



The Warsaw wool fair took place this year on June 15 th 



and 17th. This fair is of most impor- 



jy a T s i^Y tance to Polish and Russian buyers, 

 Wool Fair. . £ 



although two or three representatives ot 



German firms usually attend, but these made no purchases 

 this year, as prices were higher than abroad. The amount 

 of wool offered for sale amounted to just over 2,000,000 lbs. 

 (including 200,000 lbs. stock from the preceding year), and 

 the whole of this was sold. The quantity was larger than it 

 had been since 1897. 



[ Board of Trade Journal, July 1S./1, 1 90 1 . ] 



Mr. Consul-General Schwabach, in a report to the Foreign 

 Office on the trade of Germany in the 

 German Corn Trade year iqoo states that the corn trade 

 with the J , tt j t j a r 



United Kingdom, between the United Kingdom and Ger- 

 many, which was formerly so nourishing, 

 has fallen off considerably during recent years. One reason 



