COLONIAL PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 48, 25 January 1884, Page 2

COLONIAL PRODUCE.

From an interesting lettejr m the, ; Bay of Plonty Times from Mr Gr. % now m London, we make the following extracts : — -,-. . : , v>M$W! 2EALAND WJDSAT. , ,„j „;-,; is, I regret to, state, coming m herejinj' very bad condition, which is much to be. regretted. I .hear: the ,-qomplaintar £n y all. sidesj . and heWy losses will be sustained by the merchauts. I underllSn^^SSr^n^^Xißffietbjivy-^ wheat? buyers made. o*n0 *n; 0 grrangenwnt among themselves on the -opening -of- -ihe season to fix the limit at 3s 6d per bushel. The s.a. British King, chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company, then made her appearance on the scene, urid offered to take the wheat to London the ruinous rate of 17s 6d per ton, when up went the prices of wheat to 4s 6d per bushel — notwithstanding the compact — and it m moving up slowly here at 3s 6d, Such are some , of the vicissitudes of trade ! Wool : is ' also ' depfebsed m price. . . ,"■'. " ... NEW ZEALAND MUTTON. It is a pity that some kind, of systematic arrangement .could not be made for the shipment of this article of produce, (J 3fou ship it from, your side " Itelfcflr-skelter," just a^the ships ma'y A arrive, to take ib^awa^ u^pu jshquld time your. shipments to suittho London market ;, have .no ; arrivals; i%, London , daring the monthg^f September,. October, November or till after , Christmas. . During these months London is full of English and foreign sheep. I have been informed that some spleudid mutton, from Mr Michael 1 TTursthonse's estate has been- sold' as low as 2|d per lbj and even at that some of the carcasses were cut up to assist. the sale.I pass Mr'JT. fitter's meat stalls every morning ig. Leadenhall Market my way to the office, and no country oan have a better or more taking advertisement than the said John fitter's establishment- Every wh.ere you,see. iti." large letters " Printe Xe^ ZealaM mutton legs,, 8d per lb,", etol , At., present you,, pay jls[p>r ilb iwri English mitttoii, far ihferiqr m quality and appearance. There U sdH't-howeveiv m m^ny quarters ; a ( ,pvgJHdice against buying frozen meat; but this must wear away m course ot time. The English as a nation ; haveconveraativeinsticts and prejudices, 1 but the progress of the times m whioh we live must eventually dispel such : 'illusions, and iv proportion increase -the demand t for our produce at the antipodes, rwjth an increasing value to the landed estate.