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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 333, 23 July 1875, Page 3

:■ The Wellington -'-Post '-Bays:—''The battle -of the : Banks is ended;;'.; They have buried the hatchet, arid competing with each'other, have engaged jfon the future to work in-unison. ! The-'infor-mation will be'a relief in mercantile circles. It is s»id that competition is the life l of trade;'but ! as no rule T is'%ithout exception the exception.is/in the casejof the Banks. Their competition, instead of being.the life, has proved very nearly the death ,6f jtnjde! Had|it lasted'much'longer, there is scarcely, a doubt that serious failures must have resulted. ' This; vyould" indeed have been the case before now had not the virulence of the competition died, out some time ago in view of the probability of an approaching arrangement, and owing to,the self%videri£ fact'triat putting on the screw too heavily would defeat its own object; Now that the arrangement has been come to, a more healthy feeling will probably prevail.