INTERPROVINCIAL .
'" ' (UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION.) Masterton, Feb. 17. An important meeting of farmers and millers was held here last night, when it wa» resolved that the price of wheat be 4d per bushel m advance of Canterbury rates, farmers to get what they can fcr' oats ;• buo the feeling was m favor of 3s per bushel. : •. . OhjnaKK, Feb. 19. The A.C. camp at Pungarehu, where 500 men were stationed at one time, is now almost broken up. There will only be a bergeant and 14 men left to look after the < blockhouse and camp. Ml the other. men' between Opnnakeand Mokau will'be concentrated at Parihaka, but 40 or 50 will be employed for some time on the road works m the Rahotu district. Dunedin, Feb. 19. The * New Zealand Agricultural Company have finished their shearing, having shorn 106,000 sheep altogether, and having pressed 1300 bales of wool. The clip this year is said to be well grown, sound, and very cleat and light m grea§e. The company has marked 23,000 lambs this season, or about 60 per cent, on the narnber of ewes put to the ram last year.. '.,>,.■.. ... y-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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189INTERPROVINCIAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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