A BAD SEASON.
(Per R.M.S, Ventura at Auckland.) San Francisco, Sept. 25. A cable to the New York Sun from London of Sept. 24th says ; “ According to reports from all parts of England tho heavy rains of the last few days, coming on top of an exceptionally wet summer, have seriously damaged the crops. Thousands of fanners see ruin staring them in the face. Grain has suffered severely owing to the weather. It is of such poor quality that early samples failed to get a bid in'the market. With a continuance of the prevailing weather it may be days or I weeks before any considerable quantity of I wheat can be put on the market. Farmers will again find that the late harvest is seldom a good one.” It would be almost impossible to estimate the damage by the rain storm which has prevailed during the last two days. One of the largest agriculturalists iu Lincolnshire stated to-day that with wheat in its present damaged condition the season would prove one of the most disastrous experienced in the last twenty \ years, The land has been reduced to a ; quagmire,’ 1
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 546, 16 October 1902, Page 2
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190A BAD SEASON. Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 546, 16 October 1902, Page 2
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