OTAGO FROZEN MEAT.

Patea Mail, 7 June 1882, Page 4

OTAGO FROZEN MEAT.

The problem of conveying meat home in sailing ships has been solved by the successful trip of the Dunedin from Port Chalmers. The consignment of 5000 mutton carcasses by that vessel arrived in good condition, and fetched an average price of sixpence per pound. As the average weight was 801bs, the gross return in the London market is £2 per head, or £IO,OOO. The expenses of freight and sale are, we hear, threepence which leaves a pound a head for the meat in London. The net yield is further increased by five shillings per head, by the skin and tallow after paying for killing at the port. The net result then is about 25s per sheep. As these sheep would not have sold for more than 14s in Dunedin market, the owners

have pocketed 11s per head, hy the freezing transaction. £2756 is a noble reward for an experiment. Now that the colony knows what can be done by the shipment of prime sheep, breeders and fatteners may be expected to begin developing their business.—Lyttelton Times. At a German wedding at Chicago, in the middle of December, raw .barn was one of the delicacies, and was partaken of by a number of’the guests, who, have since shown evidence of trichinae. Most of them have been relieved of the parasite, but Henrietta Straese, aged 22 years, became worse under treatment and died on Jan. 20 in great agony. An examination of the muscles disclosed forty thousand of the parasites in one square inch. Sir W. Fox has completed the division of Native reserves, but has made the allocation only to tribes and hapus, not to individuals. This work is now all done, and he will report to this effect to Parliament, Other matters are to enquire into, such as awards of the old Compensation Courts. The aesthetes of Boston are daily gaining strength and assurance. They now speak of hash as “ a mosaic.” _