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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 25, 1 August 1868, Page 5

How London is Fed.— Modern London, (says Mr. Smiles) is mainly fed by steam. The express meat train, which runs nightly from Aberdeen to London, drawn by two, engines, and mates the journey in twenty-four hours, is but a single illustration of the 'rapid, and certain method by which modern London, is fed ; The North Highlands of Scotland; have thus, by means of railways, become, grazing ground for the metropolis. Express fish trains from Dunbar and Ejemouth (Smeaton's harbours) augmented by fish trucks, from Cullexcoats and Tynemouth ou thfi Northumberland coast and from, fiedcar,, Whitby, and Scarborough op the. Yorkshire! coast, also arrive in London every mornings , - ; And what with steam-vesaels bearing caffiHrt^ meat and fish arriving by sea, and canpfQuai laden with potatoes from inland, and nuhntf vans, laden with butter and nylk from a wide. circuit of the country, and. road* vans piled high, with vegetables within easy (tore*- ol Coyest Garden, the great mouth v thus from day ft} day regulaily, satisfactorily, and expeditioujU fillid. ' *