A CARGO OF ICED MEAT FROM NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1740, 30 August 1883, Page 3

A CARGO OF IC ED MEAT FROM NEW ZEALAND .

Jr anj' one desires a nn\el sensation lot him lea\c tl.o haunts of \V< st Kiwi life and jienetiate the legions of the East to wheic tlie Lady Jocclyn, a ship of over 12000 tons burthen, is now dUchatging her CiUgo of fio/en mutton m the VietoiM. Dock. The Client En&t»in Railway tikes you tliei c horn Fcnehutoli Stieet in less than h.ilf an liour, and in letuin for jour tiouhle, if the (iOOO raicases of sh< en w hi( h lately ail ned in her direct from Wellington, New Zealand, aie not already landed and sent off to iSniitlilield, j'oii will behold the solution of one of the pioblemh of the age — the question, namely, of the supply of the London mnikrt with fiesh meat fiom tlie Antipodes. It is only two yeais since tins new tiade began. It tosts 17)000 to fit a ship like the Lady Joctlj n with lefiigciatiiiij appaiatus, w ith the ics'tlt that looms are pi.nided for some two or tlnee hundied ton- of camo «»ta tcmpeiatnie which dm in;' a tlnec months' •\ oj a;,c, quite- legudless of the he.it of the tiopics tin ougli w liv h the \ e^si 1 <-ails after rounding Cape Houi, i* ne\ei .allowed to lise abo\e fiee/ing point, and is foi the most pait fai below it, The dock laboureis .is th< \ woik at the l.i-k of unloading pau^c now and again to blow on then hamK foi thc\ aie woikmg m tlie (lunate of an J^ngli-h ( 'hi l'-tmas" oi a New Zi'iland .July. The r.iuase-., each wrapped in a neat white shioud of .sacking, and that ngiitn coatcil ovei with thick ho.ii host, aie haul as stones Though the main caigo is mutton, beef is also lepiesented, and some tin kcj sand fish ha\e also been tlnown in, so that Londoncis may know what " s>chnnppoi«'' taste like and imestigate the mot its of " king-lish." IJtit the mam inteicst of the cargo lies, of eouise. in the (5000 odd sheep which four months agoweie bleating in New Zealand, and aie now, we aie told, selling for ?d a lb. a» fiesh mutton to the butchers in Smithfield. The carcases ■\\ eigh from 05 to SO lb&. The sheep are a cross between the small merino ram and the laiger Leicester ewe. The mutton is .-aid to be excellent, and .some of it lias no doubt already appeared on "West End table 1 -. The tiado evidently admits of great development. To l etui n, howe\cr, to our ship. How is the cold produced? It is piodueed by a steam engine of 11.1-hoisu power, which, setting in motion a " dry j,ir piocc-s"' machine, fills with intence cold an intenal which is left between the sides of the iced rooms and the sides of tlie .ship, and also fills vaiious channels oi flues which cross and reel oss the ns.it mc l.udeis. To maintain tlie lcqiiiied tempriatnic the engine has to be kept going thirteen hours, on an axerago, out of the twentyfour, and consumes each day about 2\ tons of eo.il. The binning question among the shippers is whether the new trade, which will plainly be a huge one, will be best worked by steam or by sail 9 Probab'y expeiiencc only will decide. Tlieie is much to be said on both sides. A steamer would pel form the journey in little more than half the time cmploj ed by a sailing ship ; on the other hand, the Lady Jocelyn'a cargo has arrived in much better condition than that of a steamer, the British King, which preceded her by a few weeks. There are many other points in the argument. For tlie .solution of the problem we may safely trust to the energy and enterprise of the two great Companies, the Shaw, Savile, and Jnwon Company, and tlie NNc r Zealand Shipping Company, whose fleets now maintain the communication and carry the, trade between the colony and the mother country. — Pall Mall Gazette.

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