THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEB. 25, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 25 February 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEB. 25, 1881.

"■'"" ■" ■' nj.L^,,, ' -' -^ ■■■■■> '■ English newspapers ero at tbe present time flowing with ecstatic announcements of the success achieved in the recent experiment to introduce frrzen meats and other Australian products into the Home matter. The late shipment by tne Protos appears to bftvejlexceeded ail expectations, and its complete success is held to have dispelled the last doubt that existed as to the practicability ' of the undertaking. We now learn from a late Australian pßper that a small shipment Home of frozen meats and fruits by the steamer Orient on her last trip, has been attended with rqnal success. The London correspondent of the Age, writing on the sub* ject, says :— " It will be within the recoN lection of your readers that the Orient steamship, on her last homeward journey, brought with her a quantity of fresh meat and fruit in the ice chamber which had been fitted up oil board, in accordance wlih the Bell-Coleman principle. The meat and. other viands arrived in perfect condition, and a luncheon, consisting entirely of the provender brought over, |ook place a day or two ago on board the steamer, at which Sir Arthur Blyth.lSir Julius YogeJ, Sir Daniel Cooper, and many others 1 interested in the- Australian colonies were present. The meat was in as good condition as that brought a few months ago by the ! Strathleven, and the success of the Bell» Coleman scheme is now surely demons* strated beyond a doubt. The vegetables , were preserved in tins, and therefore were not subject to the challenged criticism of the epicures, but the fresh fruit, which bad been bronght over in £ frozen condition, was pronounced on ail si#s to be excellent. Queensland pineapples, Sydney oranges, Victorian strawberries, were pnt upon the table, and in both 'heir taste and appearance were almost as fresh 89 if they had been gathered only an hour before. The boon which cheap Australian meat will be ta the poorer: classes in London, who can only afford to get animal food at present once or twice a week, will be immense, while the more luxurious classes will be equally indebted to their colonial brothers who send them in the depths of wjnter the fresh fruits of the antipodean summer. It will he a complete reversal of the sfory of the colonies being the suckers drawing away the life and energy of the old trunk when we get, as soon we may, not only' our wheat, wool and wines from tne coloDies,.but import therefrom our fresh meat and fresh fruit as well."