Messrs. Coleman,—regarding, we suppose, the question of the quality of
Australian meat as one of public interest,—have sent us some of the Australian cooked mutton, off which the present writer has made a most satisfactory lunch. It is certainly excel- lent to the taste. But it does not seem to us as cheap as it should be to invite any considerable demand. It is, we believe, 8d. a pound, and the tins of it contain a good deal of fat, which is quite waste, and a good many little bits of bone, which add considerably to the weight, so that we doubt very much indeed whether Messrs. Coleman's statement that " one pound of this cooked mutton is fully equal to one pound and a half of mutton as sold in the butcher's shop " is strictly true. An experienced judge assures us that this is very far from the case, and, indeed, that she doubts whether, when used in the ordinary fashion, it is substantially cheaper than ordinary English meat. But if it be so, and so far as it is so, it ought to be in good demand, for it is certainly admirable eating.
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