The Manawatu Standard. PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883. FROZEN MEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 95, 30 March 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. FRID AY, MARCH 30, 1883. FROZEN ME AT.

There is little doubt that the succpsb of the frozen meat enterprise is likely very soon to affect advantageously the price lof stock m New Zealand. With all the shipments to the Home country of preserved, salt, tinned, and carcise meat, from New Zealand, Australia, and America, a steady rise, m the price of ail kinds of animal food is a noteworthy feature, and has been made the subject of interesting articles m various English journals. It is evident that now that the practical success of the frozen meat undertaking as a commercial enterprise has been satisfactorily demonstrated, each succeeding year will see larger and more frequent shipments from this Colony. -We learn from a Home cor~ respondent's lettei m «n exchange that one ot the largest salesmen at Smith' fi Id announces that he is fitting' up I immense cellars with the Bell-Coleman process, and hopes to be able to store whole cargoes of frozen meat there ere longr. The same correspondent, referring to the Sorrento's cargo, writes ;— ',' 1 his mutton realised 7^d per lb wholesale, and is to-day selling at nearly all the crack West End butchers (as prime English mutton) . for full retail prices » What I said some months ago about English butchers refusing to acknow* ledge the mutton per Mat aura applies equally to the Sorrento consignment, though, as has been stated there is hardly a shop m Belgravia or Pimlico this afternoon which has not a quantity of New Zealand mutton displayed. I understand the Australian Company are waking up to the necessity of publicly proving the excellence and economy of their warep, and will,, as soon as regular supplies can be circulated, open retail agencies m various parts of the metropolis." This will show that the produce of our grand New. Zealand pastures is fast finding for itself a maiket m the old world. The effect must be to greatly increase the minimum price of stock throughout the Colony, and that yery shortly; and this must mean a larger circulation of money, an advance m the price of land, and enhanced prosperity generally. In the great future before us, Manawatu must inevitably claim a prominent position) as perhaps the richest grazing district m the .N or th Island.