WELLINGTON NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5259, 15 May 1895, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN COBRHBPO-NDBNT.I WELLINGTON, Mat "14.

Referring, to the frozen meat trade, the morning paper says, in connection with the announcement that though the price of English mutton has risen, butchers at Home have not attempted to sell colonial as English meat, " we read that the agents in London have discovered and proclaimed through the discovery, that not more than 5 per cent of imported frozen meat is ever Bold as English, and we are asked to believe that the absence of any ruah for frozen meat, when the price of best English mutton is 7sd to 8d per lb and beßt New Zealand 3&d, the difference between which pricea ought, if there ia a bad practice on an extensive scale, to be a strong inducement to extend that bad praotice, is fairly strong corroboration of the opinion of the agents. It is; we are aware, a general belief among producers that their woes are due in a large measure to the bad praotice aforesaid, but if the report we have quoted ia correct, there ia a lesß easy method for accounting for the downfall in the market. The fact producers have to face is that for some reason the trade in colonial mutton is in a rotten state. The trade is threatened with, ruin for the lack of energy and freight and combination. A oomprehenßive scheme is required on a great scale of reform. The Australians are keenly alive to the fact aud are moving. There ia a move being energetically made in New Zealand. The extra* ordinary thing is that while English prices show an increasing meat hunger colonial meats are not in demand. We know them to be good enough to satisfy any reasonable demand. We know enough, therefore, to insist upon energetic, drastic reform of the whole business of sale and distribution."

At a meeting of the Hospital Trustees to-day, tho Chairman announced that the head nurses would in future be known as " Sister," with their Christian name following. It pleased them, he said, and would be something for them to strive for. One of the trustees said that he presumed the male attendants would be called " Brother." The Chairman said perhaps they might also call the doctor "Father" and tha matron " Mother." •