THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 287, 3 December 1889, Page 5

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

IMPORTANT ARRANGEMENTS. -?]

SEVERAL NEW STEAMERS BUILD-

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(prom our special correspondent.)

Lokdos, October 18; The New Zealand frozen mutton is afc last thoroughly appreciated by the British public, and every shipment arriving in London is eagerly bought up. The, retail, price to-day is from 7d to ; English, 9£d to lOd. Wool has advanced another halfpenny a pound during the past week, so that your sheep farmers should be making large fortunes. In order to , cope wibh the increased demand, all -the shipping companies are chartering and building new steamers. Yesterday I called upon the manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Tyaer line, and was pleased to learn that in addition to the two large steamers recently built by Shaw, Savill and Co., the New Zealand .Shipping Company have chartered the Duke of Westminster to load for the .Cape and then go on in ballast, to; l-Tew Zealand. I believe that other " Dukes''will follow, as I learn that the Duke Company has recently taken up "2,000 shares in the N.Z.S. Company. Then the.TyserLine ; are going in heavy. The Star of Victoria'sails to-day for Adelaide, Melbourne,,, and Sydney; thence, to New Zealand,for frozen mutton, kauri gum,, flax, etc. This yeseel carries 5,000 tons dead weight. She will be followed next month by. the -jirsb Ross boat; (now on stocks and nob yet named), a vessel of 5,600 tons, dead weight. This vessel will take tbe same route. She will be followed by the Balmoral Castle, Bayley, and > ; Brook, all well-known in New Zealand. By* this time the second Ross boat-will' be launched and/ready for sea. She will also go fco New Zealand. The Star of England, now on her way to New Zealand, wiU also be kept in the trade, making altogether seven steamers from the Tyser Company. I am assured by this Company that special arrangements will be made for the conveyance of fruit and,other pro- : duce from New Zealand. There is a ; good: market for apples arriving here in good condition during the months of February, March, April, and May. At the presenb time English apples, very poor quality,, are being retailed afc from fco l_d each.;' v

Shaw, Savill and Co.'s new cargo steamer Mamari is a vessel of 2,349 tons register; length, 360 feot; breadth, 42 feet.; :diepfch, 31 f eefc. Her 'destination has been altered.' She has been chartered to load rails for the Cape, and then goes on to New Zealand to load frozen mutton and other produce If or, London. She will carry 7,0(30 tons, but'has no accommodation for passengers.:;' She sails next week. '•'.'"''•. -,■