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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6817, 22 September 1883, Page 4

It will bo a cause of general satisfaction to learn that the Mat aura has arrived at Loudon with the fim cargo of frozen meat from Auckland, and this in <c splendid condition." Of course there was nothing of an experimental nature in the venture, for the success of the frozen

meat trade is an accomplished fact, and nothing but inattention to known requirements can now cause failure. Still the fact that this has been our own pioneer vessel in the tea de, and that success has been attained \yjthduc a hitch, inay be accepted as a .subject for general congratulation as an augury for good. Having opened the door of the London market, the people of Auckland have now to turn

their attention mainly to the sources of supply, the quantity of meat, available for; export, being exactly the measure of success that will attend the establishment and development of th'o new trade. It is admitted that at present the sources of supply in our immediate neighbourhood ; are easily exhaustible, but every wellwisher to the extension of Auckland's commerce must wish that the prospects now presented of a market may stimulate our settlers to give increased attention to the local production of muttsn for export, . while this initial success will give a dew interest to the admirable scheme proposed by the Freezing Company for the establishing qf grazing paddocks on the line of. travel, by which flocks of sheep may be brought by easy stages from Southern

aistriuui to tne port or snip mem. One could not see the masnificeilt Doric lying at the wharl without a feeling of regret that it was necessary for her to steam away to obtain her loading of frozen, mutton in the South. Tho easy way in which she swung from her moor- . i.ngSj as readily as one of the ferry boats, and steamed away at full spaed, showed the splendid facilities our harbour has for commerce ; and if our enterprise is • only worthy of the. gifts that nature has • so bountifully conferred on Auckland, the I day should not be distant when we shall [ see such steamers going away as heavily , laden as they came, and direct to the [ London docks. This is. quite within our ' reach if the facilities promised by the > Freezing Company are realised. From i Hawke's Bay on the east, to NVanganui i nn thp. wpsfc. tTi« urtnlri

brought; by these arrangements for prac* I tical purposes as near to u3 as Walkato, and fat she&p be removed by easy stages . at a tnerely nominal coat, and with no depreciation, to the ship's side ; while in the little wore distant future, we may expect to see the intervening districts,, under the new and powerful stimulus o? the frozen meat trade, changing their aspect o£ wastes of fern and tussocks, clothed in English grasses, and covered with flocks and herds. It is impossible to overrate the stimulating effect this new trade will have on settlement and increase of production. Nor does it end with this, but giving the modus viv&ndi for these big ships, their inward cargoes landing here will make Auckland necessarily the entrepot for the general trade of the districts from which the supplies of meat are drawn, mutton and merchandise mutually acting and reacting on one another in such a manner as to develop a commerce, of the magnitude of which no one now can form an adequate: conception. We do not hesitate to say that, above everything else, this frozen meat trade is the hope of Auckland, the nucleus of every other trade and industry, and that to its encouragement and development the attention of the people should be turned with almost an exclusive earnestness. The succeSß of the Mataura shipment give 3 a freshness to our interest in the new trade, and we cordially hope that it will stimulate our settlers to renewed attention to the growth of stock, while it will quicken the general interest of the community in the proceedings and intentions of the local Frozen Meat and Storage Company.