FINANCE AND TRADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5138, 24 September 1895, Page 3

FINANCE AND TRADE.

Specially tompilcdfor the" Walrarapa Dally Times.' THE ttVE STOCK TRADE. The results of tlio shipment ol cattle and sheep per 8,8 Southern Cross are extremely disappointing, and pretty well seal the fate of the live stock trade. The loss by this must bo very heavy, and is Wough to crush all enterprise. If is evident tlmt the journey is too protracted to permit of success, the mortality is out of all proportion, while the cruelty to the animals is beyond description, Messrs Bergl, Brnbbin, & Co., whoweto principally interested in the shipment per Southern Cross, state that cattlo can be successfully carried, provided good food is supplied, but notwithstanding' this the firm in question threatens to abandon tho Australian trade and embark in the Amorican. THE BUTTER SEASOK. * From all parts oI the countiy, we have tidings of the re-opening of butter factories, and in a very short time the first shipments will be despatched to Loudon; the question that is of vital interest to all concerned in the trade is, what will bo the tone of the market ? It is a question that is difficult to answer, but this much may be accopted as a fact that real good butter will fetch a real good Ace. The question then for us is what the tone of the market will be, but can wo place upon the market a really good article. This is the problem for solution in Now Zealand, and it is the problem that we have not attempted to solve. First-class butter is certainly made in the Colony, butit is quite another matter placing oa the market a first-class article. John Hull is a fastidious person, and those catering for him must strive to please his palate and his fancy. A gentleman of 20 years experience in the Home trado writing to a contemporary urges that all butter intended for shipment should lie stored in cool chambers, at a teniperaturo of 42, for nt least three days before shipment; that the Govern-

'ment mark should appear on not more than three grades of factory bnttoi', each grudo to be of uniform colour and quality; that shipments should be regulated and that at least every fourth steamer should be sent to Liverpool; that it is better to givo over-weight than short weight. A has been evident for a long time tiR shipments should be regulated, but this is impossible so long as there is a scarcity of cold storage. In the country districts cold stores must be provided and the matter must be taken in hand sooner or later. I have been all through, a strong advocate for the cool chambers,for to me it is evident that without some such provision it will bo impossible to regulate the shipments. The factories will not bo able to advance more than 2id per gallon to begin with, sliding down rather than up, for I do not anticipate that the marwill be any better than it was last year. Even should the market improve the New Zealand factories will not be able to compete with the factories of Victoria, where the industry has reached a higher level.