] am borry to say that tlicre is fetill a (.Teat diversity in tho quality of tho butter coming fo London from Now Zealand, and liitcly one or two very inferior parcels have been on the market. Tho cheese to hand s-o far has been of very fair quality, but I have not come across any worthy of special commendation, nor have 1 seen or heard of any particularly "rough" lots. Some {rood quality produce was cleared last iveek at an nverngo of sf>.-», and a small parcel sold at 5Sj. Tho market) is lirmor than whon I last wrote, but the warmer weather which eeema to bo totting in may cause a drop iv prices. FROZEN MEAT. This from tho "Star" of last Wednes day : —The market quotations for Is'ow Zea land and Australian mutton dropped iv London last, week Co 2.yd per lb, and we arc told that at that price the import trade i« seriously jeopardised. Tho Antipodean grower, it stems doesn't mind supply ing us at ,'!.{d ; ho can still make Id per pound proiit at that figure. Buc when it comes to 2|d, lie decline? to do business. So that New Zealand mutton — which is as a rule far better eating than tbo average home-grown article—is prac tically a drug in the market. Although ib may be sold at proiit in London at 7>\d per pound, nobody can bo trot to buy it within a penny of that tigure. Probably this fact will be news to most London housewives. Haa anybody, pray, peen primo Canter bury mutton offered at "2d or 3d per pound by any London butcher during the last; few days? If co, ho will oblige by sending the natne and ad dress ot that butcher to tho "Star" man. What, then, do ths above facts mean ? They mean that in order to keep his pro iits up to the present bloated level the middleman is ready to shut the Australian and New Zealand meat supply out of Lon don. They show that the rin,L" which go verns tho market is at the present moment keeping a staple article of food up to 6d or 7d per pound (retail), when it might bo sojd to the people, with a handsome proiit to the grower and distributor, at half that price. 