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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1205, 5 April 1895, Page 8

Letters from the National Wool Company of Australia in reference to opening up a wool trade with Japan, and from the London Ships Detention Committee in reference to the delay in delivery of the cargoes of sailing vesssls, were laid before the council of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The assistance of the Chamber was asked in both cases. No action was taken with regard to the wool question, and the other matter will probably be considered later on. The local agents of the Shaw, Sayill and Albion Company have been advised that the lonic left Rio for Plymouth on Sunday morning, with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. On Thursday Mr R. Smith, of Onslow Park, brought through Pahiatua, en roule to his place, a mob of 41 purebred Lincoln ewes and three pedigree rams, all purchased from the well-known breeder Mr McHardy, of Hawke’s Bay (says the local Herald ). One of the rams was bred by Mr Tanner, and purchased by Mr McHardy for 55 guineas ; another was bred by Mr Wilson, and purchased for 50 guineas; and the third was bred by Mr Collins of Kaikora and sold for 45. guineas. Mr Smith realises the importance of keeping good sheep, and has secured an addition which will greatly improve his flocks. Sheep-owners will be interested to learn that a small syndicate has recently been formed in London for the purpose of sending chilled meat from the colonies to London, and a chamber has been secured in the s.s. Gothic for this purpose, the temperature in which is to be kept at 26deg. This will be the first attempt to take chilled meat from New Zealand, and if the experiment is successful the value of the meat will be enhanced in the Home market at least Id per lb. Meat properly chilled is supposed to retain all its freshness and natural colour for at least sixty days, and has none of the disadvantages of the thawing process which frozen meat has to undergo. The Survey Department are engaged in the preparation of plans in respect of the following lands, which are to be brought into the market on the dates mentioned below :—On the 15bh May—One section of 100 acres at Cheviot, to be leased in perpetuity, and two sections (also at Cheviot) together, having an area of 30 acres. One is in Home View Village, and the other in the suburb of McKenzie; both are to be disposed of as homestead sections. On the 22nd May —251 acres of second-class land in Invercargill and Campbelltown hundreds, to be disposed of on the optional system, as i are also 599 acres in Invercargill hundred. This block is on the edge of the Seaward Bush, and from three to five miles out of Invercargill; 366 acres, six miles from Havelock (Marlborough), to be disposed of on the optional system; five small grazing runs, containing 7516 acres, in the parish of Taupiri (Auckland), close to Huntly township, to be leased for 21 years; also, 1740 acres in the same block, to be disposed of on the optional system. On the 25th July —l7 sections, containing together 3824 acres of bush land situated in the Maraeroa - Oturoa Block, Thermal Springs district, Auckland, to be leased for 21 years. At the land sale at Now Plymouth on Wednesday, the whole of the remaining town sections in Stra.tford (with one exception) were sold at the upset price. A butcher in Prance was recently sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for supplying army meat which caused the death of several soldiers. The father of one of the soldiers has since sued the butcher, claiming compensation for the loss of his son, and the Court ordered the butcher to pav the parents <£4o down, and an annuity of <£2o.