The Frozen Meat Trade.

Otago Witness, Issue 1645, 2 June 1883, Page 14

The Frozen Meat Trade.

Writing on April 18th, on tho subject of the frozen meat trade, the Melbourne A'gus* London conespimdent saja :— "Tho famine pneus winch have ruled for some wouks iv the mptrpiioi)tau uieeJ markot bavo

now dixffncfc v declined. S eh la ire sup .I'ob were thrown upon the mtrker. from iho province" and from a'iroad that they na uial'y rea«'«d up n the pric. s Pri'>i- mutt ii r.nat in the bejri nin/ of Mich was ittrhinir as high an 6s 4d er of Bl ■ hni deuiined tn 5> lOd ter sioiieatthocoinme cemwnrof A iril, and l fe ior uiu t -n had f»l en from 4< 7d per stone to 3s 9d. Beef shnwed a enrre-pondinj dec me The Aiistruian mutton ox Europe t>as cinnequi nt'y not reali ud such Mitu priies a- at ft' at, b'lt mstofit i« now disposed of, an excel ent average having b en mainUidod th'oushout. The Chimb )raz.>'s car^o will ho nlacod on the market in a day or two. It is in excellent wdition. It will have to encounter cons durable opposition, a magnificent shipment of New Zealand me-t hiving just arrived in Hie failing ship bunedin. It con ists of B'WO s-heep, chic fly crossbrt'di, flvo bullock-, and 20 pi s, in al> 684 6G4 b of meat. The q -ahty ami condition are C)»tid>rcd by the sali'an on a- exactly suited to the rr-qiiiroiuontH o( tnetrade. Ie I sdl.ng at an nve-age of about 7d per Ih, >-o o of it realising a i-liifhth higher (-rice. Tho New Znlai d md Au-t»ali n Land & mjar-y are the 8 nppeiß, and the wholo of the me it has ne^ii grown on their New Zt al intl estates. Ti'e^teamer Onzco reached Plymouth on the Bth insr., and refinrfed that the meat Oil bo'i'd waa in sp endio c>n'liiion, but an exdini'ibtinn »-ub t-qncntly revealed thar. one-thi d of tiie ca go had not, airivjd' in g"od condition, »wing, it i« nuiii'wicl, to 'lelavs in s'np inif. Tho remaining wothnd^t i- b> lieve ' to bo very good. The cargo c nsi>t,si of \2')9 iao.is+p nf mutton coimgned to the Orient Comp.my, and 2t7l (arciasca of mutt n and 231 quarters of beef Coiiaigned to Messrs Ddlgoty, Dv o'ioz, and Go."