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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3891, 9 January 1884, Page 2

On tho subject of tho frozen meat trade the London correspondent of the Newcustlo Courant bears personal testimony to the excellence of New Zealand frozen meat, which ho cnthusiasUcally describes as "sweet and fresh as the customary Southdown." He further confirms wha has boon frequently stated, nz , that West End butchers arc making enormous profits by selling frozen moat as the best Home-bred article. Despite all these facts I cannot discover, says iho Auckland Star s London correspondent, that shippers and consignees (the persons who ought to make money out of tho frozen meat trade) are doing specially well. It is only when sold as English, mutton that New Zealand mutton really pays. Those who avowedly sell New Zealand frozen mutton find the demand and prices both decreasing. The Lyttelton's carcases

(at least some of them) were placed on the market the day before yesterday, and only yielded h\ wholesale, whereas a few months ago 7 J i was easily obtainable. A glance at tho following table is anything but reassuring : — Name of Ship. Price Realised. Sorrento 7d to 7id Dunedin .. ~ , , G 1 d British King ~ .. Gil Lady Jocelyn ~ ~ s|d to 7:j d Fenstanton .. , . GUI British Queen .. .. ckl to G : Jd lonic .. .. .. 7d to 7]d Opawa .. . . .. 7d Mataura 2d to Gjd British King (2nd) .. s',d to Gid Catalonia., .. .. OdtoGid Lyttelton.. .. .. GUI The discouraging fact is that the steady fall in the price of colonial mutton has not been accompanied by a similar fall in the price of English meat Prime Southdown mutton fetches 9 r j-d wholesale.