62 GERMAN MEAT IMPORT REGULATIONS. 

service between the Baltic and London for the conveyance of 
perishable goods, eggs, game, butter, etc. Detailed con- 
ditions, both technical, commercial, and political (as regards 
nationality of crew, etc.), were worked out by a special 
Commission of the Department of Commerce and Manufac- 
tures last November. It was intended to offer a Gi vernment 
subsidy to the Company accepting th* undertaking, in return 
tor its fulfilment of the various conditions, etc. Various 
foreign steamship companies were approached on the subject, 
with the result that the firm of Helmsing and Grimm have » 
accepted all the obligations imposed by the Commission, 
without a subsidy, upon a guarantee, irowever, that for ten 
years the Russian Government will not grant a subsidy to any 
other steamship company for a similar purpose. Should 
this offer be accepted, then, from this autumn, Messrs. 
Helmsing and Grimm’s fast vessels will run weekly from 
Riga to London, specially fitted up for the export of eggs, 
Diamie, Med ly, sOULLEIsNeLe: 
Butter and game trom Siberia and the Steppe Governments 
will be conveyed overland in specially arranged refrigerating 
trucks. The trains along the whole route from Kurgon (on the 
Siberian Railway, in the Government of Tobolsk), vza Tula 
and Moscow to Riga, will be furnished with special ice 
compartments, &c. A special ice-house depot will be 
constructed at Riga for the preservation of the goods pending 
shipment. The firm will apply the reduced rates of the 
Northern Sea Route, and grant facilities for insurance and 
payment on delivery. The maximum rates will be published, 
beyond which the firm in question cannot charge. This does 
not prevent other companies running similar services at the 
same time, even at lower rates, but they would naturally be 
forced to grant the same conveniences and facilities for 
payment. 

IXEGULATIONS FOR THE IMPORTATION OF MEAT INTO 
GERMANY. 
The Board of Agriculture have received, through the Foreign 
Office, acopy of a memorandum by the Commercial Attaché to 
