Frozen Meat Trade.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1895, Page 2

Frozen Meat Trade.

Nelson Bros, report, under date N,pt veruber 80th :— New Zealand mutton..— The arrivals have tjeen,' '.' Aoraqgi " with 20,578, "Perthshire" with 500, *• Pakoha " with 41,^7 and •-• lonic " with 28,000, carcases. The last two arrived on Wednesday, and storage for both; cargoes have been arranged, the Aorangi finished discharging on the 27tb, the Ruapehu still retains her meat, on board. More seasonable weather the last week, helped by light arrivals has given more tone to the market, and there has been marked advanae in price for second claw sheep, fairly good North Islanders are worth 3d per lb, but good well finished carcases are not plentiful, despite the heavy stocks on hand, the bulk of consignments being light, half-meaty sheep, that do not meet buyers' requirements. New Zealand merinos are practically unsaleable in face of the really good Australians and Plates now to hand, and they and the large num< ber of old ewes, should not be sent home. Merinos have Bold at If d per lb, and old ewes at 2sd Jo. 2£d per lb. TJie prime old-' fashioned Canterburys are now laldoni seen, and in their place soujo leggy, coarse sheep, of North. tyWlight of mss fat and, wwtefS,' they' Be#frcim 3Ad To 3Jd per lb, a feW of "better class, KRakine *'* (Per Press Asaooiatton). •*t ■■• WeUilngtok, January 5. . TnlrMaori Wvgi Which arrived this mpr»ing frfltn. Melbourne has another sftjpnaent of thirtj live bulloeksonbbara for v Lo»dbh. They are muoh stipenor to the first lot. - " / -i ' ?■ Melbourne, Jamiary 5. The Age believes Victoria .will; treble her meat export during the year.

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