Commercial.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 557, 15 November 1881, Page 2

Commercial.

The week {says the Lyttelton Times) having heoii almost entirely devotod to holiday making; i usiness in the import market has been of the most meagre character. Several of the overdue ships have put in an appearance much to the gratification of the consignees. The arrivals embrace the Chatanooga and C. A. Littlefield, from New York ; the Gustav Metzles, from Boston ; the Pleiades, from London ; and the long overdue Robin Hood, from Calcutta. At Dunedin the arrival of the Veteran, barque, with sugar, from Mauritius, is reported. A portion of her cargo is fer . Lyttelton. It •is with pleasure that we note the Canterbury slock producers have at last woke up to the necessity of bestiring themselves in :tlio matter of taking steps to form a Company for tho export of frozen meat. At a •meeting held yesterday of gentleman interested, the initiatory action was taken, and we hope very shortly to be able to nnrounco the successful floating of the Company. In another column a full record < f tho proceedings is given, to which we beg to direct the attention not only of the -stock raisers, bnt of the dairy farmers of the Peninsula. At the meeting the announcement, marie by us in our last Saturday's issue, that tho Mataura- was littod with refrigerating apparatus and d'mzi'ii meal and produce chambers, waft oirriob(irati-<i, and while regretting Unit action lian not Ummi taken earlier, it is ;j)lci!sing to know that Canterbury is not to do left behind in .tli« race of firogreas.