FOREIGN MUTTON-A SCOTSMAN'S LAMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2102, 7 June 1894, Page 8

FOREIGN MUTTON-A SCOTSMAN'S LAMENT.

[ There is no branch of our import trade of which, it can with greater apparent truth be said that it win its infancy. The White Star Libs have, withm the past few weeks, added to their fleet the steamer Sothie, intended primarily for the colonial meat trade. She has freezing chambers capable of holding very nearly 80,000 mutton carcases, &c, &c. — Scotsman, January 6, 1894. Noo, a' ye grumblin' fermers, ye black an' whitefaced men, Read the Scotsman's leaderette, an' whan ye've dune, oh thenj Pray lood for resignation, then ask the lairds' consent Taequt i the hills yer yows graze on, or ney but half the rent. A fearfu' time is comin 1 that'll a 1 yer prospects Brin iErthanwa?'. deStitUtiOn ~ aye ' ten times yo ' but ye heed nae Though ye'U trimle when the substanca come 3 wi' unnumbered hosts. The French an' Roosian naviea will nae doot bombard oor shores, BUt o t ff the^ores? 88 tae tLe fleet " that wiU pa3S An 'their 1 relicf fOr ° ierlandwi> UB they>U fin ' tw Tb** °° r sojera an ' O or sailors fecht ill on foreign Then comes peace, an* prices doon, an" steamin' ower the seas, Frae New Zealand an' Australie, ships come thick as bees ; Wi' every corner crammed, the captain scarce can strut on The decks themsel's sac slippy wi' the grease o' foreign mutton. Ye've borne the load bravely, but this last big bunch o straw Tae yer knees will bring ye doon, an' bottom yin an a . Then mak' a michty ootcry that Parliament may notch The frozen stuff, that folks may ken it's no the prunest Scotch. — J. A., in a Scottish paper. News from Brunnerton, West Coast, on Thursday states that an attempt was made to wreck the Blackball aerial tramway. A piece of wood was found tied to the standing rope, and two trucks had been thrown off, while the cutters had been taken from the doors of three loaded trucks. On the Midland railway, at Stillwater, it is also thought an attempt was made to wreck a train. The police have gone out to investigate the matter.