PORT PHILLIP. [From the Port Phillip Patriot.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 119, 19 September 1846, Page 3

PORT PHILLIP. [From the Port Phillip Patriot.]

Port Phillip Bee* as an ExrQvr.-y** We ire gratified in being able to state that, notwithstanding the ill success of the. earlier exports of beef to the mother country, tbe'rt is every, reason to: believe that Port Phillip beef" may yet command the highest .price* ih the=British market. . Messrs. Watson "land Wight shipped several tierces of Port Phillip beef (killed .and cured under their superintendence) by the William Stoveld, in May, 1845, and their* speculation has been crowned. with the following highly satisfactory advices, daj ted 25th of March last, from their London brokers, .respecting the; complete success of ;the export ;-b-t 4 S We . ihavr, to, report upon the ,cjwk(t pi Sieef, and ,w« ih'ei party; we eipployetd^^who ,is .considered one of. the best judges in sthe market,^has .deferred givtngit, so as -net to admit of our sendiog:it t^r-an earlier opportunity: It appear* that th».qua-

lity is excellent, equal to American, which, after many difficulties, is in hiph favour, and is gradually supplanting the Irish. It is likely the Australian beef will have to undergo the same severe ordeal to establish its character, but will eventually be able to compete with its rival. The present price of American beef, of similar quality, is from £4 2s. 6d, to £4 4s. per tierce of 3041b." These facts clearly prove that such objections as the length of the voyage and (he heat of the wool ships (nearly the entiie freight of the Stoveld being composed of that staple) are no serious obstacles to the healthy arrival of meat, it carefully cured. The above-mentioned firm have, we learn, improved upon their methjd of curing beef for the home market ; as, without some outlet of greater extent than we at present possess for our surplus stock, or in the absence of a commensurate supply of labour to preserve it, the grazier will be compelled to look solely to his wool, and even restrict the growth of that commodity to a certain limit. Teetotalism. — In the event of no supplies shortly arriving, there appears every probability of the majority of the inhabitants being compelled, from necessity, to enlist under the temperance banner. Brandy, either Martell's or Hennessy's, is at present fetching the enormous price of 12s. per gallon in bond.