FROZEN MEAT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1690, 24 January 1888, Page 4

FROZEN MEAT.

The English correspondent of an exchange says:— The supplies of fresh meat from both home and foreign sources have been , abundant. Prices hardened a little while the colder weather prevailed, but with a change to a milaer temperature they quickly fell again. No animation has existed in the frozen meat trade, and pricer are, on an average, o|d per lb lower than they were a fortnight ago. There has, however, been no disposition on the part of importers to force their stocks upon the market. The Coptic’s large cargo of 29,381 sheep, which arrived early in August, has been cleared at 3|d to per lb. The lambs, ex same ship, realised from 4|d to s|d and the beef 4|d to sd. The Tainui’s cargo of 30,333 sheep, from Wellington, is selling at 3|d to 4£d for mutton, 4|d to for lambs, and 4d to 4|d for beef. A bout 4,000 of the s heep remain undisposed of. The Elderslie’s shipment of 24,949 sheep has been cleared, excepting some 2,400, at 3fd to 4*d. The Doric’s, from Lyttelton, was nearly all sold at 3fd to 4|d for mutton, 4d to for lambs, and to 4-a-d for beef. The Kaikoura brought home 19,000 sheep for Wellington, of which 7,000 remain. The mutton has sold at 3|d to 4?d, and the beef at 4d to 4|d. The consignment from Sydney in the s.s. Oroya re alised 3?d to 31 d. The meat brought also from Sydney in the Orizaba is selling at 3jd to 3£d, at which prices 2.000 out of 5,957 have been sold. Half the cargo ex Arawa, from Lyttelnon, has been disposed of at 3|d to 4£d, and 2,000 out the 15,000 brought home from Port Chalmers in the Toiigariro have brought similar prices. The Oamaru’s consignment of 11,502 sheep is now selling at 3fd to 3|-cl, and 200 carcasses have been sold. The cargo brought by the Lusitania, lonic and Aorangi, amounting to about 35.000 carcases, is reported to be in good condition. It is estimated that there are now in London 135,000 carcases of frozen mutton. A company will shortly be started under the title of the Co-operative Meat Association of Great Britian, with a capital of £250,000. It is not likely to engage in the frozen meat trade, and consequently will be antagonistic rather than well-disposed towards it. It is interesting to notice that the depreciation in the value of meat is not confined to this country. A report < issued by the Prefect of the Seine shows that the price of beef was Id 4-sths per lb. less in 1886 than in 1885, and that of mutton per lb.