THE “GREAT EASTERN.”
The statement that the Great Eastern has been chartered for 10 years to carry dead meat to Great Britain from the American seaboard on the River Plate is startling enough (remarks the Liverpool Mercury). The scheme is a bold one, as will be seen when we mention that its promoters calculate that beef of prime quality can be laid down in the United Kingdom from the Argentine Provinces at. 3d per lb., and that they propose to slaughter the cattle on board from day to day as received, storing the dressed meat in refrigerators to the;'extent of from 10,000 to 15,000 carcases each voyage, all hung, and equal to from 3000 to to 4000 tons of meat. The Great Eastern is 700 feet long, and 24,000 tons burden.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 925, 12 March 1881, Page 3
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131THE “GREAT EASTERN.” Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 925, 12 March 1881, Page 3
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