NEW Zealand Produce Notes.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7539, 21 January 1896, Page 4

NEW Zealand Produce Notes.

||Sy .jfChristohureh Press correspondent.) KjT'-k^V. .' V ..■ ' londok, Dec. 6. |||lp?;l.The;gale~o£ River Plate mutton as New still continues, and, I fear, inRjSiwS&ses. The latest dodge is to call it Canterbury mutlon," dropping ||p|ll.mention of New Zealand. Nobody can ilpfsajr:.' 'whether there may not be some place IllfCalied Canterbury in the Plate territory, |p|suti .of course purchasers Buppose them(lP^elTes" to be buying the famous North S|£Caiite-bury mutton of New Zealand, and they discover the quality of their ||||jpi3{rcb.ases they " rage furiously together " ||§>s;ritl j V the people imagine" — the excelpp.l'enrid” of North Canterbury meat to be — ipjfi'a vain thing." 1858J- ;- Two cases which have recuntly been IgSXDrought under my notice inspire in me a Jg^vbilrniug desire to know whence camo the gp^Tneat so temptingly offered as "Prime |||, Canterbury." ""The North Canterbury K Meat Company " announce that they have p|6pened premises in Tulkerth street, Southpyjp'prt, where they will sell the best meat at ifc^bVeat prices. What is this North CanK{Jterbury Meat Company ? Do you know about it in New Zealand 1 All pSpte. know horo is that it is connected with lpijMeßßrß Eastmans, whose extraordinary llpS cheap "N.Z." mutton struck me at Scarg|jjb.qrough last August, when it was selling gtef^fchere at 4d per lb retail for prime cuts |||£while . New Zealand mutton was fetching SH^&l per lb wholesale in the market for ppj.Jßntire carcases. "Some people insist that i^fab any rate, a good deal of tho meat now sgfibfSing offered at Southport may have come Ift'from some Canterbury in South America, ||£^ba6 certainly did not come from Canter-fe-lpnry,in New. Zealand. jjpj£,> :-- Then again at Blackburn Messrs James f|&Nelßon and Sons, Ltd. (no connection §v|-with Nelson Bros., or with the CO. and g# D. Co.) are placarding the town with big fifebills headed "Sudden Death of Large fH^Profite," the meaning being that they offer |pto sell "prime Canterbury mutton" at &j£ithe following prices per lb : - Legs 4d to ife4|d, chops 4£d, loins and shoulders 3d to |te'4d,lheck and. breast Id to 2d. How can I pSith'is be done with that class of mutton at j|p4d..to.4-£d wholesale by the carcase in the I pi. -London market 1 1 0i^ feal ! tlle Dottonl has dropped out of I §H;he : chilled beef trade so far as New ||||Zealand is concerned. At any rate, the pKB.s. Gothic has given it up after the last The thermostat and tho g^Chilled. room appliances have been rejpf;,inoved from the Gothic, the reason given pt being ; that, owing to the excessive diffi-iftf-culty and cost of collecting bullocks in |y,Me'w Zealand suitable for chilling, the I '{expenses are too heavy and the thing Twon't pay. ikTThe Kakaia's Queensland experiment because she was detained so long in ipritfisifoh, her latest passage from Brisbane <to London occupying as much as 70 days. j£Che chilled beef travelled all right ab a ; temperature of 30 deg. Fah. for 40 days, '.the^length of the Gothic's passage, and Neven a week later it seemed quite sound. : But on the 49th day there were uumistakable signs that it was " beginning to go," ,tand so it was at once frozan, too late, to save it entirely. Consequently jSwifi has been sold at a lower price than it p.would have fetched had it been carried all g^;th'e way frozen. igS-" Wool shows decided improvement, and |5' ; priceß have hardened since last week. &There has been some surprise expressed iff ft'fe the low prices lately obtained in New ©Zealand for some crossbred wool, which pjii telegraphed to have realised only Id to ~ofXs& advance over last year, while in IpSngland the rise is fully 2d to 3d. It is ijrtn'e best qualities now that are showing ■tathemost marked and steady improvement |;:.&S';UBual, excellence is telling, and those 'Zealand flockmastera who send the best wool will get more than ||;pr6portionately the best price for it. pkrß'nsiuesß is very active in Yorkshire, and feeverybody seems sanguine, especially as !j£trade is brisker just at present than l^anybody can remember it to have been I ||t:ia December, the period before Christni as almost invariably one of much pdulness. Ppl A ? expert in tho wool trade writes to Samei to-day that since the opening of the IPs**t^- nfc SB " es oi salea comparatively little Ip*Wß e " aa kell Place in tho wool market IliS'Jkk on American account" |KP 0 . Q P led : with Bt roug and steady Continenjfjpal.support, have combined to give canfid|M«nce,to English buyers, who to beeia with P^ere. somewhat diffident. The financial |||cpiripetition has been in the better descrin. Ifetions .of. Australian and merino wools in ggrease, which in addition to being very ifi?g hfc *,«» condition this season, will not be l&'W ""PP'y- T °is class of wool now gseUa readily at the best rates of tho preloJ<Ng.sales.I o J<Ng.sales. Medium and inferior greor „ pneiino,. wool, particularly if faulty ' y Rdrought-stricken, labors under some v n ° r gfainty since, so far, buyers have vn l * 1 fSUfflcienfc opportunities to test i 1 ■ T Ji • feMaoect. Consequently wool coraj^ 1 "^ l^uir category sells somewhat i rre ° "," J latprices but little in «co« '£ palues. ■ Some slight im V rove mB nt "f InQticeable in scoured wools narti^nLi feregards the better qu^e^S |wopl;has been sparingly offered, butTucn |p.arcel B .ashav a so ld have mot w.th eS flent. competition at rates d lghtly ' IS B tt T>1 1 7 ilh tho p^«-S-talOT-tlie market, for crossbred wool has §8K!? lOh Rr % n - fc , largoly re P r «ented, ft*", own f » lr 'y. niedium. and fine |goods fail to meet with the Game demand rand, there is but a limited inquiry or f wools. y Now Ze a ], vlKl f m muttr /n ?5? d .- 1<M pb. the following iuat receir i g»m aieun Nelson Bros g . ,Ld dated th t gfternoon, is tho latest information • J^ ! ple'j-l'The Banffshire, with 687 ='* I : has been the only arrival. 'w^L pjtyybeen , very slow, the low • |%h frozen mutton can bo L - pn ?. at fated against the deir- * d °ft ,?* cd h h ™ IgOKen, while the secor ' . -i ntl V v I of the ' ' u - cla , E ? h , as f c elt the kalian, which hp DBtter l T *°K Aus ' Sn'irice Sev- ' B prevented, any advance 6a>e 3old »' eral P !vrcel3 o£ , Canterburys Ppg 5 ,'- ,v 4fd per lb, and from that to r j ib may be looked on us present K -^r' 08 ' Dunedins, when fresh and |:;ighfc, are worth 3§d per lb, North Island itltton is very dull of esle lit 3j|d per lb, i'jtnuch is faded and stale that buyers 'fefer,;tho brighter Australians. A few Jew' Zealand lambs are still enquired for n&sjpH.at 5d to 5-Jd per lb, but generally Ij'eir "size and stale appearance tell n^ainst Hem, and sales are very restricted." zJStifi fittest quotations f^n- New Zealand (jfcter .ore as follows:- Choicest factory best factory at 9Us to 102s, sebjitlary at 755. to 90s. i^ijfete-Hew.' Zealand produce I am daily ji^jES'.and more convinced that the ono lijnglrieedful is to make it and its merits !<£ya;>,>!NdeJy and clearly known. At Hpc'ljetifc;' it- a»d 'those aro known only to fcjie^gnHgfjteued few. The public in ||raji(>utol : )?iio>V-, nothing lit. all c.bout it. prodnco arrives only to be MtSt,ln,the huge! crowd of fiimilur produce accumulates in such a city as ipL/fliisi .is not realised in New Zealand. K^^t>dj r .c-tntenliso the vnstness of London ■ffiS.i^nojUtV seeing it for himself, and even H|phM the:hutnnii niiud fails to grasp such HffimjnSiisUy, . Ydtt may go on "dumping B^MS&^'y our proUuce'iu London for ever Eli Mt^tJc-'People. here- knowihg anything ■K|oM4t. ; ';.' What you' want, nbove all, is B^pffl^weally, go6d nnd efficient system of ■H^Mctißifig thiit.fiball let the public' know, ■^|p|roaKe..;ihem understand : what New B^Myp^fenieat »nd duiry produce are, ■S t&j}oP%*iff i Q}&*"lV*l*i "f P("nidß would b^ MmmoM^-^ ti °sm '>i»s ab°u^ ■ra^^%^!Wo^'tli^großteßli.-.dJfßoiilfcy

in discovering where you can obtain any particular thing from New Zealand. For example, a lady I know had long been trying to get hold of some New Zealand honey. A day or two ago she happened to be in Upper Norwood, and then quite accidentally and unexpectedly she came across the very thins olio wanted and had so long been trying in vain to find— some excellent New Zealand honey, offered for sale in a shop there. She promptly bought it and arranged as far as she could for a regular supply. Again, a resident at Sherborne — in Dorset, the great butter-making country of all England — wrote lately to a New Zealand friend in London, complaining that he could not get decent butter at Sherborne, and asking where ho could obtain New Zealand butter, which he found greatly superior, and have it sent down to. him. The fact is English clury farmers and farmers of nil classes hit intuleiaMy slow and "groovy." They cannot or will not escape from their old grooves. And so they persist in the objectionable and uncleanly fashion of making by hand, with the result that their butter is inferior both in quality and in uniformity to that produced by countries where tlio manufacture is carried on by creameries.

In many parts of Devonshire they actually do not even use churns, but make the butter by splashing about in the cream with their hands. Let us hope those hands are clean !