COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Monday. THE FROZEN MEAT FRADE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2073, 20 October 1885, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Monday. THE FROZEN MEAT FRADE.

T»K Anglo-New Ze.ilonder of the 11th September, repoits: — The market for frozen meat ko^ps very weak, and there is but little doing ; prices vury from 3jd to f>JdThe cargo of the *n. Iberia just received h.is beoti only partially marketed, the Melbourne mutton fetching from 4^d to 4\d pei lb. The Sydney portion of the cargo has not yet been otfeied. The Dnn^din's cargo (Ma«M Shaw Savill's hue), fiom O.unarn, with 8,.">15 sheep, it lealismg fn>iH 2s lOd to 3s 4d, p>T stone of Hlbs. The Rivur IM.ite mutton w selling at from 4d to 4\d per lb The s.^. Ruiint.ik.ii (New Zealand Shipping Co.) and the s.s. \Ve\ford from Rnei Plate, nro expected on Saturday or Sunday, both bringing large cargoes of mutton. During the year ended March 31->t las),, 419,0tJ1» frozen carcases of New Zealand mutton wore exported against 247,772 during the previous year, being an incru«w of 213,3 ( J4. Of those Otasto furni-hed 133,964; Canterbury, 121,1)27; Marl borough, 15,9)0; Wellington, 130,43« ; N»pl«jr> 29,089. For meat preserving purposeH 100, »90 sheep were utilwed during the name period. Otago supplied 572 ; Cantei - bury, 20,371; Maryborough, 757 ; Wflhng ton, 2«,9!)8; W.mganui, 10,270; Napiei, 21,8«4; Auckland, 11,630. The total number treated exceeded that of last return by some 9,009 shrep.