With the Australian and New Zealand delegations we understand that
satisfactory agreements have been reached about mutton and lamb, but that Mr. Bruce has been disappointed by our standing out against any proposed handicap upon beef exported, almost entirely by British firms, from Argentina. (We notice that Australian firms have just succeeded in getting a contract to supply the British Army with beef for six months in competition with Argentine tenderers.) It is said that the Canadian delegation is insisting upon a preference equivalent to 2s. a quarter on their wheat, while the views put forward about flour on behalf of the British millers are an unpalatable surprise to Canadian millers. On the other hand, the reports of Canadian concessions over our textiles are very promising. The Crown Colonies are seldom in the limelight, but Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister is said to have made much progress on their behalf.
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