COMMERCIAL Waikato Times Office, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1850, 15 May 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL Waikato Times Office, Wednesday.

EXPANSION Or THBFUO/,K.\ MUAT THANK. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company are in receipt of tho following letter from their London Branch : —March 11. —We wish to draw your attention to a question previously raised in connection with the de\ elopmeut of the frozen meat industry, so far as some light has been thrown upon it in the case of tmr consignments per Biitish King. We allude to the diversion of a portion for .sale in Provincial markets. From Mr John (higg's correspondence, full reply to winch was, .sent by a recent mail, it was manifest that ho was prepared take the risk of sending some of his sheep either to Liverpool or some other Provincial centre of consumption. Mr It. E. Haslam w.is also, acundmg to your advices, anxious that the Manchester market should be tried ivitti some of his sheep. Both cli >nts having, on board the British King, consignments sufficiently large to enable a poition to be divetted t'> these channels, and still admit of .some being sold here, we at tanged with MiThomas Borthwick, whose services wo had picvion&ly <v\.ulud of in belling at Livcrpo il 103 caicases mutton, on account John Grigg, that as the former was lepiesonted alike in Liveipool and Manchester, such quantities, on such days as he might select, should be sent him for disposal at each point. He accordingly, elected that on the morning of Wednesday, MaichJ>, 100 carcases No. 10 should be doli\eied to him at Liverpool, and 100 No. 81 at Mauchestoi, these two numbeis iepi eventing J. (-Juggs and R. E. Ha.slam's sheep io^]iectivelv. Thisatrangcinent was accotdingly earned out, and Mr Bothw ick announced that both parcels had ie\che'l then destinations in grod order. The' 100 sheep No. HI wete worked off in Manchester in one day, but at piiccs which, after deduction of ladway carnage thither, will not yield so good a letmn as if they had been ictained and sold here. Up to tune of wilting, we have not received from Mr Boithwick a pteciie return of the caniage, as lie has tlie mattei under the consideiation of the Railway Company, They, we believe, ate doinuning to gne Manchester the benefit of the .same raUs as those chaigcd oi. meat sent to Liveipool. Mi Boithwick is hopeful of doing something Uioie in Manchester and as hetelegiaphcd tint he hid sold 3U foi deliveiy on Thuisday, Match 13, we atianged to n-scive th.it num'iei for him out of \nriou> inteiestb before closing the mutton by this steunei. In Li\oipool Mr Boithwick did not meet with the same success, and it took him three days to deai 100 No. K> sheep tlietc, and even then the pi ices weie by no means satisfactoty. The bioad tesults of these tiials ate that, even under fa\ouiablc auspices as icgard-> weathei, v ith ]>unctual deliveiy in good oidei, uj>on a selected day, and with but a small quantity to deal with, such good lesnlts foi special shoe]) cannot be got at two leading pinvmcial centies, as, at same time, wcie obtainable heic for much l.ttger quantities embiacuig a variety of qualities. Ju addition to this, there is the fpet that, if the vcntiue to Liveipool had been made in sununci, even on the assumption of peifect deliveiy, the lesult would have been still more unsatisfnctoiy, as theie would ha\c been no accommodalion foi the cold storage, of the poition of the 100 caicases left unsold on the fiist day, and these, if not disposed of at least on the succeeding da> would have, quickly dcteiimated m value. .Should we licieafter diveit any to such channels, those mteiesti'd will, of couisc, understand that >»hile fiesli outlets may be opened up, it is Inghlv nupioluble that any butlui (ii so good) icsults can be obtained than by selling heie in legulai course. The iccoids of letent sales effected June show, not ineiely an lmjnovement m pjice, but a {jieatci cap city to absoib supplies. And it must lv lemembeted that tliese sales me not only to mctiopnhtau and Miliurh.ui bu\eis, but to those lesiJent in the inovinces who foi w .ltd otdeis.

-iii t bou;\i, i,u\i\ m \i(ki r. Mkluulkm:, May I.! — Tim Melbourne manager of the X.itiniul i\loit£.i<,'« and Agency Company of Now Zealand (Limited) U'poiK i if tin; Iml •/,{ un iii.ukcl us follows :-Wm>..l, 1, L<l to Js oil, wiUi slightly nii])Ki'. Ed tendency. i tilling bailey in demand at X «'kl to Js 10d. Xcv Zeal.md oats (feeding -~oit>), in ffood demand, at 2s '.id to :>>. Milling ditto are him at 3-, Id to .'!-> ,'»d. Xe>v Zeal met oats (under bond), .no IN o'd to L\ 'kl. The inaiket is steady.