CHEESE IN LONDON.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2073, 28 July 1896, Page 2

CHEESE IN LONDON.

From the produce noes of the London correspondent to the Press we eslracr the following, which will no doubt in ercat many of our readers :—The sale of frozm mutton bas, curiously enough in an odd. round-abont w»y by : lib effect produced upon another article of colonial produce, namtly chr-esp, revolt) ionised the fooi supplir'B of the poor, Formerly t're poorer clumps thought themselves fortunate if they cou'd afford choose for their principal meal. At present tbey can indulge in cheap msat. " Ono of tho consequences is that the value of .cheese bas fallen to tbe extent of-about 20a p<T cwt.. as you will see if you cotTipure preset t prices with those current a year ago. Recently Messrs Level! and Uhri trims,' tbe well known produce merchants,of Smitl.field and Tooley stree», fourjd themselves ' ' (>s the trade phrase in) with n very targe ftock oi • cheese, iinduding 1300 boxes of Canadian and over 700 crates of New Zealand. Finding considerable difficulty in clearing oft this stock in the ordinary way by private sate, Messrs Lovell and Christmas dc.t-.ru.ined to try the experiment of an auVfioD. They accordingly announced tint t,bra large quantity of cheese would all bo slid absolutely without reserve; the ifriiis of payment to-be in cash before delivery the goods to be cleared off within three „3ja, and all to be taken at inaiker. weights wfthout any allowances. The switi took place at the London Bridge House Hotel .lar-.t Tuesday nftomooo. I .njada a p,oiut of ntt&niiqg to see for myself h*w fr'ie plan work' d. Tbere was a very fair .attendance; of huycra, fully 200 were present, and bidding aa a rue was ready and $p'iriJ*d, The practical result was that . all the lota were p< M and realised full v-Ja_B, ranging opjo 44-. 6d find for Canadian and 35* for New "Zfjiifaii. The Now ZaaUnd cheese tjCfercil *»n -this rjiecft*er. re?pettivoly jrcuti W*vim«a Plains (at least tb-t \* what I supposed wan ; tne>i.t, by ' Waimea ' in the cfllyjlqgijfc), Ota.ra arid Inch Clutha. Toe prices'•'-'.resp'fe.ctrvely realised were as follows : — Waime'a Plains, 25-t rates al 35* fifty c/Bt?s as 345; *otira, 331 crates at 335; Inch OlutUa, 100 crates r.t 32s 6d,

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