TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 18 August 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

TO THE “ MAIL.” (per united press association.) PROFITS ON FROZEN MEAT. Dunedin. The general manager in Edinburgh of the N Z. and A. Land Company, writes full particulars of the result of the Dunedin shipment of frozen meat. The letter shows that, after deducting freight and all charges, the sheep netted within a fraction of 21s, and the lambs 10s 9d per head. To this sum must be added the value of the skins, less the expense of slaughtering, which Mr Davidson estimates would add 9d per sheep to the net return. The result is that something like 80 per cent more was obtained for the sheep than could have been obtained in the colony at the time of shipment. The letter concludes as follows :—“Since the successful voyage of the Dunedin there has been quite a stir in refrigerating circles, and from all I hear there will be no lack of tonnage to bring- home all the mutton New Zealand- can spare. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company have just completed arrangements with the Albion Shipping Company for another shipment by the Dunedin, which vessel is now being fitted with two new large freezing chambers, and will next time be able to carry 6500 sheep, at the same time leaving the ’tween decks freezing chambers for carrying 100 tons of dairy produce. She will be in the colony in December. Suicide through DrinkDunedin.—Philip Davis, a plumber) aged about 30, and a single man, who is

living with his parents, took spirits of salts, used in the trade, and died. He had been drinking heavily, and, coming home drunk, was reprimanded by his father, whereupon he went and took the poison, saying that he had done so. A doctor attended, but, although the drug was removed, the effects of it and of habitual drinking killed him. The Christchurch Levanter. Christcurch. —It is now suspected that Thompson never went by the mail steamer at all, that he left on Monday by the barque Butterworth, bound to San Francisco. Home Ships Sighted-Wellington.-—A vessel supposed to be the City of Tanjore from London to Wellington, was seen off the heads this morning, but has since been blown off. The ship John Gamble, London to Wellington, was passed off Cape Campbell this morning. A fresh north-west gale is blowing. The Absconded Solicitor. Wellington. Thompson, the levanter from Christchurch, was spoken to by an old schoolfellow while going on the Wanaka steamer, which joined the ’Frisco boat at Auckland.