THE Hawke's Bay Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1869.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1049, 18 May 1869, Page 2

THE Hawke's Bay Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1869.

Next to the settlement of the Maori difficulty, whicK is vapidly pavalisiu g the energies and dimiuishiDg the resources, of the colonists of the Northern Island, the most importaut question of the day is the successful development of one of the many experiments for preserving meat. With wool again down, and with no market within the colony for its surplus stock, the exporfcof meat in a preserved state is almost the last hope of the New Zealand settler. Nor is it by any means a forlorn hope. The fact of meat being so overabundant in the colonies, and, at the same time, so unattainable by millions of people in England and on the continent, has stimulated the energies of the iugenious to an extent almost unprecedented. Scheme after scheme is being propounded, and any number of capitalists are prepared to back the one that fairly promises the most successful re-

suits. Meat preserving by the tiu process is already a success, but the great desideratum is a plan by which whole carcases can be exported with 9 reasonable hope of arriving hotfie m a fit state for humau food. fThe process of. Nicolle : which baa brought forward prominently un^|e£^^ggp pices of Mr. Mart, lias lH|Hß^ be seen from an extract^MßHp»er column, arrived at maturity, tne cause assigued being the illness of the inventor. This is greatly to be regretted. We observe, however, that a similar process has been developed in Melbourne under the auspices of a Mr. Postle, of the success of which the most confident anticipations are expressed. We shall take an early opportunity of reprintiug a description, oi the same. While on the subject of the resources of the Colony, we would call attention to an article elsewhere upou the value, as an industry, of the wool of the Angora goat. Possibly some of our settlers may gain something by the perusal of the same. It is quite clear, we think, that the wool of the sheep cannot long continue to be the one staple of the province, and that the energy and capital (what there is left) of the settlers, must, ere long, be diverted into other aud more remunerative channels.