Foreign Trade.

The Committee have been actively engaged in endeavouring to promote the opening of Foreign markets for the produce of this district, and had important communications with a delegate from page 12 Belgium and with the Belgian Consul General for Australia, also with the Austrian Consular delegate, who arrived in His Imperial Majesty's war vessel "Saida." The Committee having also received some suggestions as to the question of a trade with Brazil, have addressed communications to the Chamber of Commerce at Rio de Janeiro on the subject, to which a reply may shortly be expected.