NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 14, 15 December 1884, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Aooording to latest Victoria'a an j ■ S 2 u l h Außtr aW* advices, the wheat crop of thege colonies bids fair to, be. 'above ■the-avevage m yield arid of ifine quality. Sates of the new crop are already being iWadeiafc the-railJing low prices, which do jnot seem likely, to; rise for another season |at least. The areaundei wheat m this ; djstnct (says the Waoganui HeralU) is : much smaller this y^r than last,' bat will be i ample for local requirements, as ;! ther6 l is still a large stock of last sea- ; Bon's grain unsold, owing tb the suicidal \ hahit of people here preferrinp- to send : their money away for flour made on the > South Island, while our, own. farmers' are , left with their produce on hand, and almost ruined by the combination of adverse circumstances that they have so long struggled against. Money that shonld be circulated m the district goes to Oamaru and other southern ports, and the place gets ,4aily poorer and duiler,. ; When,wo,baye t ßtarved all oarfarmers out, «vu4 turned the <jo»Btry into a 1 fiheep l'an^ oa.ttle walk^nost of the trade folk now here v will have to aeek a living eljaeiwhere^ aqd Wftngaiiai will have become a second Turakina,if not a "Sweet A^la^^n» v • ♦ . . i