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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1239, 7 April 1880, Page 2

A few days ago it was stated in sevewal newspapers that SO.OOO bushels of pats had been sold at SVaimate at Sid per bushel. "We have made such exhaustive enquiries as would nave confirmed the statement had it been correct. But we are now convinced that it is a ruse, probablv perpetrated in the interests of some party or parties connected with the grain trade. It is scarcely likely that 3 the perpetrator could have been actuated by any other motive. If lie knows anvthing at all, he should have known that, although, in all conscience, the prices of oats have fallen low enough, they had not fallen so low as was stated in the telegram. But howdid this telegram get into the papers'? Someone lias made a number of iniluential aud honest journals unwittingly parties to a conspiracy to rob the°alreadv depressed and unfortunate growers of oats. The telegram has had a visible efiect on the market for this cereal. Everywhere the inquiry is " Did von see that oats have been sold in '"Waimate at The worst feature of the business is that people actually believed the rumor, ! and we think that those papers which have given publicity to it should do their best to undo any mischief they may have done by contradicting it;' If thev require any substantial refutation it is to be found in a paragraph in another column of this issue, where it is stated that oat 3 have been sold in Oainaru at Is Cd. .Since writing, the above we have discovered that the Waiinate Times has written stronger on this matter. It says that there are onlv two growers in the "Waimat? district that have such a large quantity of oatn to dispose of.