THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. IMPORTANT ARRANGEMENTS. London, October 18.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 427, 11 December 1889, Page 6

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. IMPORTANT ARRANGEMENTS. London, October 18.

The New Zealand frozen mutton is at last thoroughly appreciated by the British public, and every shipment arriving in London is eagerly bought up. The retail price to-day is trom 7d to 7£d ; English, 9£d to lOd. Wool has advanced another.-half-penny a pound during the past week, so that your sheep farmers should be making large fortunes. In order to cope with the increased demand, all the shipping companies are chartering and building new steamers. Yesterday I called upon the manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Tyser line, and was pleased to learn that in addition to the two large steamers recently built by Shaw, Savill and Co., the New Zealand Shipping Company have chartered the Duke of Westminster to load for the Cape and then go on in ballast to New Zealand. I believe that other " Dukes " will follow, as I learn that the Duke Company has recently taken up 2,000 shares in the N.Z.S. Company. Then the Tyser Line are going in heavy. The Star of Victoria sails to-day for Adelaide,. Melbourne, and Sydney ; thence to New Zealand for frozen mutton, kauri gum, flax, etc. This vessel cairies 5,000 tons dead weight. She will be followed next month by the first Ross boat (now on stocks and not yet named), a vessel of 5,600 tons dead weight. This vessel will take the same route. She will be followed by the Balmoral Castle, Bayley, and Ashleigh " Brook, all well-known in New Zealand. By this time the second Ross boat will be launched and ready for sea. She will also go to New Zealand. The Star of England, now on her way to New Zealand, will also be kept in the trade, making altogether seven steamers from the Tyser Company. I am assured by this Company that special arrangements will be made for the conveyance of fruit and other produce from New Zealand. There is a good market for apples arriving here\in good condition, during the months of February, March, April, and May. At the present time English apples, very poor quality,, are being retailed at from -£d to ljd each. ; Shaw, Savill and Co.'s new cargo steamerMamari is a vessel- of 2,349, tons register 7 ' length, 360 feet ; breadth, 42 feet ; depth, 31 feet. Her destination has been altered. She Has been chartered to load rails for the Cape, and then goes on to New Zealand to load frozen mutton and other produce for London. She will carry 7,000 tons, but has no accommodation for passengers. She sails next week.

lea ! It is certainly true. Ask any o! your friends who, have purchased there. Garlick and Cranwell have numerous unasked for and very favourable commendations from country customers on their excellent packing of Furniture, Crockery, '' and Glass, &c. Ladies and gentlemen about to furnish should remember that' Garhok and Cranwell's is the Cheap Furnishing Warehouse of Auckland, furniture to suit all classes ; also Carpets, Floor bloths and all House Necessaries. If your new house is nearly finished, or you are going to get married, visit Garlick and Uramvell, Queen-street and Lome-street, Auckland. Intending purchaaar*«%n hay« \ cftt*in ffue sent free. "Those coming in after the speaker has commenced," said an Irish minister, after introducing a lecturer, •• are requested to do so as quietly as possible." A terrible explosion oocurred on Saturday at Marseilles. From some unexplained cause 300 barrels of gunpowder aboard a ship lying in the bay became ignited and exploded. No further details are to hand. J. A. Laurie, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a tourist named Rose, ' at Goatfell, island of Arran, some months back, and subsequently reprieved, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life.

been reduced to £1 per annum, tart not hers, and she cannot, by the conditions under winch it was taken up, remove the building to the next section. vVhy ? Because the landlaws under which we exist are like the laws of the Medes and Persians. Last year this poor woman had to borrow £5 for her rent, which is again due, and she is compelled 10 part with her Pewing machine to raise the necessary money. The Ii ish landlords have no such arbitrary power as this, lliere * Commission is appointed, and iF any *ood reason can be given for reducing the vent, the landlord is not asked whether he will, or will not, reduce the rent, but it is done for hi-n. Would that some such system were in force here, and if we were to take the same pains and trouble here for ourselves, as is being taken for those who are better off than we are ourselves, it might be done. Sympathy, like charity, should begin at home-, as the proveib says, "Physician heal thysvlf," or, in otuer words, " Rectify your own wrongs be fore you occupy your time with those of others.— l am, etc., Cyclops. Te Aroha, Dec. 4, 1889.