New Zealand, Mutton.
The following scrap fro-a a home letter addressed to a resi-lent of. thus County expliiiT itseff : l-« At d'inier we had a leg of roasted mutton. Lady; H. was seated by nae. We said nothing about the meat, as wa wanted to find oat whether they tasted anr'thinopeculiar. After g itting through abiut halt, Lady H. said to me, 'What excellent mutton this is ; did you get it from the butcher's heie V I said, L think it is fairly good,' and turned the con ersatiou, for I wanted to gat at Sir Stephen if. 's opinion. I watched till I saw him coming to his last morselor so. I then sai<J, « Wnat do you thinkof chis mutton ?' lie at once replied?* * I was thinking how delicious it is. Ts it Franklin's? If it is, yoa ge t better treated than we do/ I then told him whence it came, or rather I said, ' It has baen killed four-months^ 1 A.h ! New JW.and ■ meat,' was the reply j « where can I get v ■?":■ • •>'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 161, 13 June 1883, Page 2
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176New Zealand, Mutton. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 161, 13 June 1883, Page 2
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