MANCHESTER AS A MARKET FOR COLONIAL PRODUCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1786, 9 November 1895, Page 2

MANCHESTER AS A MARKET FOR COLONIAL PRODUCE .

Thb following are extracts from a letter received by Mr Lowndes, of Parnell 5 The manehester canal has been a costly undertaking. But there is no doubt it is making sure and rapid progrt S 3. I was there'on Monday, and I count( d ten barques laden with builders’ timber and logwood, all discharging, besides numerous steamers in the several docks, loading and unloadirg. Very‘few go out light. T read in one of the papers you sent us that you were about to ship to Manchester a considerable consignment of dead meat. I may tell you that Manchester is now considered to be the largest timber port in the world, and when the live cattle lairs on the Manchester side and the dead meat and cold air stoi 6 J now being csn3tructed or built at M )de Wheel Waste ’are completed, we shall be the largest importers of meat in the world. I wish that the prejudiccj against Now Zealand mutton anu lamb could bo broken in this country,; fl am sure that it arrives here in splendid condition, but somehow or other the vendors of it do not set it out 'so nicely, or put a class of mon in the retail slap s calculated to attract that class of customers which it would be such a boom to, namely, the artisan’s'wife. And again, the whole trade is principally confined to what is known here as the British and Colonial Meat Company. They take a fihop in a busy thoroughfare, paint it inside and out in the most gorgoous . colours, and placard it all ovor, and then hang, say, twenty or thirty carcases pf sheep outside under the blazing row of gas jets, which, of course, molts the ice out of it, and then half cook it before it is cut up. Two fellows are engaged, and blue smocks and whito aprons are put on thorn, aud they make the street intolerable by .thoir shouting. The trade has boon spoiled by these men, and respectable people don’t like to bo seen doing busiaes at the shops. I have bought several legs of colonial mutton, aud taken it over with me to,i my daughter in the couutry, and you could not- toll it from tho tendered English mutton you ever tasted.’