MEAT FREEZING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4898, 25 June 1887, Page 2

MEAT FREEZING.

A NEW COMPANY TO BE STARTED

IN NAPIER.

IMPORTANT TO SHEEP FARMERS

Napikk, to-day.

A new freezing company is to be started in opposition to Messrs Nelson Bros. It is understood that Shaw, Saville and Co. will take a large interest in it and carry its meat to London at 2^d, or |d less than the best terms offered by Nelson Bros.

A large meeting of Bheep owners was held at the Masonic Hotel this afternoon to consider a proposal from the N.Z. Shipping Company to send a sailing ship here this season, for which they ask a guarantee of 10,000 carcases of frozen mutton and 2000 bales of wool. There was a long and interesting discussion, but a full report of tho meeting is held over. Mr Wilcox, agent of the Company, offered to take the sheep at 3|d a pound, to cover all costs, but the meeting, on a motion being put, decided that the proposal could not be entertained, and nothing was done.

The residents of Rotorua were nneaey on the night of thu 9th of June (the anniversary of tho Tarawera eruption) ; owtnuf to a terrible thunderstorm, which cuatd a vibration, muny thought To Kooti prediction was fulfilled. There was no cause for alaam us Taraweaa never emits any steam or smoko now, and Kotomhana ia showing less sfeam than is visible at Rotorua. The old Wairoa road which had been cleared and repaired several times is now irrevocably broken up again, the heavy rains having created runtß and gullies twenty and thirty feet deep.