Here is a lugubrious letter, sent not long since to *? Queensland paper : —'I wish oo harm t- anyone, t>iit we wjmt the dry seasons back again. WUat we Bad to sell then we got soafethiftg for, sow we get nothing. Jus| fancy butter Id per lb, and maite at lOd per bushel ! How are we to lire on »t f Tonr forest Hill correspondent quoted an instance in ty* last where a neigbonr sent twn potatoes to Brisbane and got udife return, and lost his bags into ift€ b&rgiln. Well^ I sent five tone of rtally Lgood potatoes to Brisbane «M* leaaoa, and got back ITs sd, and «nd I lofc^ «Uo ioy bags, whicn cost me 41, «« after all I was 2»7d to thUd,: with all my labour lott. And thwU how we lire and are «p©ot«d ♦r»;rjjhr "if ICSf.'v ■ \ '■ . ' ' ' : ' "'
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3268, 24 May 1895, Page 8
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