OAMARU.
The Times of January 20 reports :—
Business is very quiet, and the grain market Bhares the general depression. We quote -wheat at 4s ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; barley i nominal ; flour £12, with downward tendency ; oatmeal £17 ; sharps, pollard, and bran, £3 10s to £i. Harvest prospects are < improving, and should the present fine wea- , ther continue, harvesting will be general in ten days or a fortnight. The crops are looking better than was expected, and the average yield will be much higher, aud the quality better, than last year. There will shortly be a great demand for lab«r in this district, and 9 mplovmenj W$ \t> $Vis foj ft VflfP WWber
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West Coast Times, Issue 1662, 27 January 1871, Page 2
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