Oae circumstance which must in the near future greatly influence if not revolutionise the meat trade is the success of the chilled beef experiment. At the annual meeting: of the New | Zealand Refrigerating Company, held in Duredin recently, the Chairman (Mr T. Brydone) said he was sanguine with regard to the prospects of the de velopment of the chilled meat trade, in which he thought he saw the silver lining of the cloud that bad been hang ing over them so long. A New Zea land gentleman, who was present when the meat was cold in Smithfield, and saw it there, said that it looked really first-class—dry and clean—and that it smelt sweet; and he himself tonka roast of it home, and it ate as well as any English beef he ever tasted. There waa a good demand fur it, and it sold at an average price of s£d per lb. Of course, they were all hind quarters that were sent Home; but, comparing the chille-i beef with ta hind-quarrers of ir zen meat which were sold at the same time, we found that the frozen quarters sold at 3f 1 as against s^l per lb for the chilled meat. The freight that was charged waa 135 d per lb, that being estimated to give the $ame freight to the steamer as frozen mutton at Id per lb in the same apace. Tbat had been an experimental shipment, and when shippers learnt ?o pack the boef belter and put more into the space, the beef wouhJ bo carried at a less price per lb. He thought that the freight for chilled beef would not be more than l^d per lb when once there were proj er arrangement and it was understood how to pack the bee-.
