A NEW MARKET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 237, 25 January 1889, Page 2

A NEW MARKET.

The market in this colony for beef shows no signs of improvement, and it becomes a matter of anxiety to the stockowner to know where to turn. The English market is shut against him till March, owing to the difficulty of being able to thoroughly freeze the meat through the thickest parts during the extreme heat of summer. In the face of this we learn that the largest butcher in Victoria was interviewed by a Melbourne reporter, and made the following extraordinary statement. *' For weeks I have been in communication with New Zealand, and really cannot make them out. I wish to do just the same thing I had to do two or three years ago, and I believe there must be a good surplus stock there. My offer was to take 100 bodies of beef, and 500 to 1000 sheep per week, but for some reason or other the people over there do not seem to take much interest in the question." By quotations given in other papers, we noticed that beef was fetching twenty five shil: lings the hundred pounds in Sydney, and was expected to get dearer and j dearer until the Autumn arrived. We have placed this information before our readers, as the number of fat bullocks in this district must be daily increasing, and an arrangement might easily l>e entered into, by. which a shipment could be made; with the risk fairly distributed anaongt the contributors. We believe that the Union Company would carry live stock to Sydney at a price varying between £4 and £5 ahead for cattle, but if the venture proved successful, there would be but little doubt that cheaper freightage could be secured from Australian boats, which would also have the advantage of being manned by crews who understood the handling of stock, as both Victoria andN. Si Wales annually import a very large quantity of fat cattle, mostly from neighbouring colonies.