COLONIAL PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 182, 1 August 1895, Page 2

COLONIAL PRODUCE.

Sydney, July 31. ,< The "meat market" shows, a distinctly hardening tendency, and,, prices "are advancing. /Best mutton shows a rise'ft-bmV 2a te 3s qnxlasb. month's qqobabionß. In the course.of interviews, carcase butchers;] etate that really gopji sheep and.cabtle are j hard bo procure. There is likelihood of greater, scarcity, if; the drought, which 1b becoming very severe in grazing districts, continues. ; Graiiierß rushed surplus, stock into the market in fear of the drpugh.t, and there isjnbw a shbrbage;; The large pfrewv ing expbrt pf:live-awl ■ frezen meat:coni- v binedm'ußti'i'itJßXpnßidere'dJ.leaij!,'tC;a;';;d^a'v sidei'able rise before long. Graziers arej also boginhing tp look forlrtoproved prices. ' Ab the half-yearly meeting of the.Grraziers' Meat Expprb QompanyV.'tne repPrt ehoVvea' that the works) established ab Nyngan had proved highly satisfactory, hub. 6"rfirig to the droughb aupi|ies|of fat stock hadVbeen limited, and had, handicapped operabiqns. Progress was beijig'made Jn the establishinenb of works in other pastprai^ceQtreis, and lor this pqrpbje ib■ Was intended to call up the sum 0ff£35,000 capitftl. The reporb added there was a promising future' before the Company, afpd that ib hadbeen decided to consider the establishment) of retail mqab shops in London. .^r- .' .. - At' a meeting" of repreßeidtati'ves of;.the. farm and dairy produce^coispanies on the south coaab, ib was decided to amalgamate khd establish a central dep6b to control the sale and export of produce. It was stated that the output offbubter from New South TV ales was J26,*060,006 pounds yearly.; ' .;