SHIPMENT OF MEAT TO ENGLAND UNDER MORT'S FREEZING PROCESS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1049, 18 May 1869, Page 3

SHIPMENT OF MEAT TO ENGLAND UNDER MORT'S FREEZING PROCESS.

A' Meeting- of the executive ta<fmmittee was held aY the ; Squatter's George-street, on Tuesday affcernoonV * The following letter -Irora Mr. Mort ta the chairman was then, rfead ;-^ ' " Graenqiaks, | Ai>rin<>,viß69» „ " My dear Mr. :.Q6i?-peri-*-P Jiarie delayed replyingtoyour letter because I have • been in great hope thatl should ;bc able to accomplish something decisive by waiting ; but Nicolle is again hors de comibat, and I fear not likely to tackle work for sometime.. ... " I have really wrought hard—harder than lever did at anything in my life . before, and I.have Bpared no .post to. accomplish my object, and even yet I ani ■ ; not prepared to ~' acknowledge myself : beaten,, nor do I intend to give in ; but I think, as I failed to come up to any.-: thing like decent time, it is only right that the money which was subscribed should be returned. "I am, as you can easily understand, very weary, but I am not by any r means hopeless of eventual success; my regret is that I should have allowed .myself to believe that the thing could be accomplished in so short a time, thereby giving food friends a great deal of trouble, whiqfi would fain have spared them. One 1 ; thing, however, has resulted from their action at that Chamber of Commerce meeting over which you were so good as . to preside — the subject has been thoroughly ventilated throughout the world» and the genius of all nations has, in consequence, been challenged to accomplish what we aimed at. Ido not know if jort are aware that an experiment^ is being > made on board the City de Janeiro steamship by Tilley, assisted by a rich ;.gentle- . man by the name of 3?e Cecq, . to carry, meat under the -cold air process*: I do not, however, think it will be a; success, ; as the plan is one which Nicolle abandoned, long ago. Ammoniacal gas being':the.'_. agent employed, we shall hear about it by-and-bye. It is b satisfaction to mci inthe midst of my disappointments, to know, that no one save myself has. suffered in pocket by txlj experiments.^ JSFicolle participates with me in loss of healthy and, I fear, reputation also— but then he is in, the same boat, so cannot grumble." " I am quite certain Nicolle is still confident of success and will never leave the matter until, he, or some one else, shall have accomplished it. • :/.' . " I am, my dear Mr. Cowp>r, " Very faithfully yours, " Thos. S; Most.'' It was unanimously resolved by the , committee that it would be undesirable to adopt Mr. Mort's suggestion, that the ; subscriptions should be returned, and that, as Mr. Mort's efforts are still directed to the perfecting of his process, they: consider it most desirable that further time should be given for the purpose.