Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1228, 22 January 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1872.

It is satisfactory to find from the English press that the preserved meats of Australia are rising into favor in tlie home market. The Standard in particular has devoted a lengthy leadingarticle to a full description of the trade in them, its rise, progress, and present prospects. The Produce Market Review also devotes an able article to the same subject. It appears that considerable fluctuation has characterised the market hitherto. Previous to the late Continental war the market was glutted and low prices ruled. During the wat the market was cleared out, and prices accordingly rose to a high figure. This, induced over-speculation pn the part of the shippers, and at the close of the war there was once more a glut, and consequent depreciation of pyices. The low rates, however, have had the effect of giving a wonderful stimulus to the business, and it now appears that the supply falls, or threatens to fall, fai short of the demand. The authorities in connection with hospitals, charitable institutions, and jails are largely using the preserved meat in their respective institutions, and report very highly in its (avor, not only as to its qualify and nutritious

properties, but also as to the savingeffected by its use. This saving amounts to from 30 to 40 per cent, on the previous expenses for fresh meat. It has been officially announced by the authorities of Carlisle Jail that they have saved ,£OO on a bill amounting to ,£l5O. Another very encouraging sign is that the rising generation appears to take to the preserved meat, and to be devoid of much of the prejudice well-known to exist against anything new in the minds of the adult population. That there is no exaggeration in the ratio of saving to be effected in tiding the preserved meat is demonstrated by the Standard. It shows that when ordinary butchers' meat is cooked and divested of bone—that is, brought into a nearly similar blate with the Australian article—its cost is from Is od to Is 7d per lb., as can be easily proved by cutting and weighing the meat from tie ordinary butchers' joints after cooking them. "It must then be a wonderful saving to get boneless and cooked beef and mutton at 6d and 7d per lb.-' 1 The trade it is assumed is capable of absorbing as much as 10,000 tons per week, and when this is an accomplished fact it will displace one-third of the ordinary fresh butchers' meat trade of the country, besides superseding much of the use of salted and cured meats. We believe that in this industry there is an opening for the enterprise of the settlers of this Colony, and we should be glad to learn that it was being commenced in this Province, We believe that it would prove a -lucrative addition to the business already carried on at the several boiling-down establishments in the out-lying districts.