OUR LONDON LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 6038, 19 July 1882, Page 3

OUR LONDON LETTER.

LONDON, June 3. THE FROZEN" MEAT TRADK WITH OTAGO. _ Next to the mysterious departure of Sir Julius Vogel, about whoso "little game" you will by this time in all probability koow more than we do, the great event of the fortnight has been the arrival of the Albion Shipping Company's vessel Dunedin with the first consignment of frozen meat from Otago. This Bhipment, which consists of no less than 5,000 carcasses, has proved to be m prime condition, and realised excellent prices, although the Dunedin was ninety-eight days at sea and experienced great heat in the tropica. The Bell-Coleman Refrigerating Company, under whoso superintendence the venture h*aa been brought to so successful an issue, are naturally very proud of it, and will find plenty of people to agree with them that "this is the most remarkable instance ot what can be accomplished by mechanical

refrigerating." The ' Times' devoted a long badct (which I enclose) to the subject, and Sir Dillon Bell also wrote a letter to the ' Times.' [The ' Times' article is reprinted in another column.] A COLONIAL COMPOSEK SLATED. Mr Luscombc Searrcll, whom your readers will recollect as the musical director of the Lin#u - d company, has succeeded in. gutting his '• Wreck of the Pinafore" produced at the C/pern Comique, London. The whole of tho metropolitan Press elated it fearfully. Tho ' Daily Telegraph' described it as a "tedious and meaningless burlesque," and said: "Tho Pinafore is not only wrecked, but has gone down with all hands. There is not a scintillation of fun in one of the characters." The 'Times' described the piece as "dulness long drawn out."' The London 'Observer' spoke of Lingard's "buffoonery" and "the music-hall jingle of SearreH's so-called tunes": whilst the 'Daily News' said that "Mr Luscombc Searrell is only like Mr Sullivan when he flagrantly steals his methods and imitates his airs." THK I'. AND 0. COMPANY. The P. and 0. Company have declared a miserable dividend of 5 per cent, and their report is tho reverse of lively. No mention is made about the Company entering into the New Zealand trade. PASSENGERS TOR NKW ZEALAND. The Orient liner Potosi sailed from Plymouth on June 30 with the following passengers for New Zealand:—For WellingtonMessrs W. H. Harham and J. Smith. For Christchurch—Mr and Mrs Charlton, Master Thompson, Mr E. Dodson. For Port Chalmers—Mr A. G. R. Hayes, Mr S. F. Smithson, Mrs Young and child, Messrs M'Den and James Brown, Mrs Begg, Miss Brown. For the Bluff—Mr Murdoch Campbell.