HOME MARKETS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4072, 25 March 1892, Page 3

HOME MARKETS.

Eo-w They Aro Supplisd Tbe Glasgow Weekly Herald says that the enterprising colonist eraolatea the enterprising foreigner in doing his best to make it uncomfortable for the unhappy few who, for lack of pluck or pelf, are content to vegetate "f[ in Great Britain, It would almost appear that the only occupation lel't for British humanity to engago in soon will he to do one another's washing, We have nearly everything made in Germany now-a-days, and we are getting much of our fruil and foods stufls from our kin beyond the seas. Tinned rabbits, tinned turkey, tinned oysters, and tinned salmon aro now consumed in enormous quantities in the British Islandß, and though tinned beef seriously jeopardised the existence of tbo British cow, the fact that we have still a weakness for fresh milk and fresh butter led to the hope that the bovine race might still And a sphere of usefulness in thesa muchimporting islands, But at last the fiat has gone forth. The occupation of the British erummie has gone, and when the millennial three acre period arrives some other kind of live stock will have to be selected to make the surviving agricultural; labourer as as his lonely condition will tJ allow. Salt butter made in New Zealand creameries has been on sale here for some time, but it is only within the past few days that fresh butter from tbe samo country ; bas been placed- upon the Glasgow' market. It is in lib blocks, kept fresh in t cool chamber on shipboard throughout the long voyage of oyer 11,000 miles from New Zealand, end can bo retailed here at about Is 4d per lb. Ihisis surely the last straw. These one pound pats of butter cannot fail to have a lubricating influence on the rails of the commercial switchback down which the United Kingdom is descending, and it plight be worth ' considering whether, instead of vexing pnrselves abppfc defects jn thp navy, it would not be wiser to sell o£E the whole concern as a job lot, turn the British Islands into a gigantic poor" hoiiße, and tax the colonies whom we have mined in our tonom for out support,