Mr Cameron's Metting. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2589, 28 October 1903, Page 17

Mr Cameron's Metting. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,— l was horrified this morning when reading your Teport of the above meeting to find that I am reported as I am in my remarks about the opening of shops in London. The report is naturally a very short one, and is shorn of all context, and therefore liable to be somewhat misleading. I can only now say that if the remarks I made are correctly reported I wish at once to withdraw them, and to statp that I never contemplated that anything I said: could" bear such a meaning. I do not for a moment suggest that honest men are so scarce in the colony or in England. — I am, etc., John Roberts. Dunedm, October 22. THE MEAT MARKET. NAPIER, October 23. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company (Limited), London, cabled yesterday: " Frozen meat market. To-day's quotations are- Canterbury mutton, 4d per lb; Napier, Wellington, and North Island mutton, 3ld per lb. Lamb : First quality, 5d per lb ; second quality, 4gd per lb. Beef: Hindquarters, 31d; forequarters, 2|d per lb." THE NEW SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT CROP. ADELAIDE, October 25. The first load of the new s?ea3on'3 wheat has Teached Port Adelaide The crop averaged 16 bushels to the acrj. The sample weighed 60lb per bushel. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER. LONDON, October 23. Holden of ihe shipment of the new season's Auat-ainn butter, which arrived in excellent condition, arc asking 108s. A NEW FREEZING COMPANY. WELLINGTON, October 23. The movement on foot at Eawke's Bay by dissatisfied producers to establish another freezing company has resulted in a compromise. At a conference with Messrs Nelson. Bros, and the North British, the two existing companies, it was arranged that tie latter should take in Messrs Donnelly, M*Lean, and; Co. as directors, they to put in some extra, capital, and, to act as xepreseßtf&veg gi those

•who were dissatisfied. The North British Company also undertake to extend their works.