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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6053, 9 February 1892, Page 2

In another column we publish cabled advices of frozen meat quotations in London at the present time. The price quoted for Wellington mutton (i.e., North Island) is quite equal to, if not higher, than the price realised for sheep in the Auckland market during the past month while the fact of there being an active demand with an upward tendency with only small shipments arriving pointe to a still better price being obtained at an early date in the English market. The introduction of frozen meat into Paris where a mutton famine is reported gives a very hopeful outlook to intending shippers and should ensure high prices being obtained, at any rate, until the Home summer fed mutton comes into the market which cannot be looked for, for some months to come. With these very encouraging reports we hope our settlers will avail themselves of the London market as an outlet for their fat sheep. We refer intending shippers to Messrs Fitter's report for December published in last Saturday's Times, and would impress upon them the necessity of only sending prime sheep and in no case should a sheep exceed 701bs in weight.