LORD LOFTUS ON THE FROZEN MEAT QUESTION.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 6 December 1880, Page 2

LORD LOFTUS ON THE FROZEN MEAT QUESTION.

(From the Melbourne A rgus' Sydney Correspoadeat.) At a public Imacheoa to the Go* vferaor recenily, Ilia EicelJency, iv referring to the frozen meat question, said, that since he addressed the meeting at Deniliqnin, there had been two c ire uu3 stance he though worth calling attention to. He had received full coddnmUion of tbe practicability of refVigerau'iig meat, by the hot tuat a consiJersibla qa:mtifcv of meat placed on boaid the Orient in London had been received in Sydney in good ecu- \ dition. The second circumstance was that the Americans, with a view to acquiring tlut superior breed of e.v'tle. which iuw existed in AustraLr- cind hop'ri'ful of opfcaiuiGg tlio sa^io hi-Qed mi n tr-aoi 1 ':, i'iyii?.. vrevo now VuVcla^dz k BughiA all iL-j'fir.--i-ch3j slock th^y

could^et, for tbepurposes of^breeding. Now it appeared to' him tbat Aus-. fcralia— and when he said Australia he did not meau New South Wales alone -^should be moving, and nob inacHve aa^if she were apparently iadifi.ireub on this question, which was oae of very vast importance to., her futurelnteres^ Let Australian, producers consult the statistics of those colonies, nod ask themselvea whether tb^ millions of pounds of meat available for exportation did nob offer sufficient inducement to theaiio combine ia one grand undertaking, for tbe attainment of the object in which their own interests were so deeply concerned, lie said a grand undertaking, because it ought to combine all the Australian colonies, and be carried out on a large scale. It could not be carried out by a small isolated company with a paltry capital, but needed a large com--pany with a million or half a million of capital. He was convinced tba if such a company were formed, it would be accorded tbe co-operation of England ; but Australian producers musfc not expect English capitalists to engage in this trade themselves. This hope was delusive, for unless Australians could come forward, and make tha first move, thereby evincing that they had confidence in themselves and in their undertak : ng, they had no right to expect the coufiJence of others.