ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1250, 20 April 1880, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF HE OAMART MAIL.

—For the last few days we hav« fceon getting fine (I might almost say summer) weather, which w&i gw»tly needed, m a few fanners had not finished harvest before the last spell of wet went her, bot T believe I might say that harvest is over now, and thrashing is well : advanced, showing in most cases a very \ satisfactory yield, and yet the farmers are ) not satisfied; in fact, they cannot swallow the ruling prices of grain. They grumble at the market prices, and see no better way than to hold their grain for a while, believing that they will get higher figures f,»r it by doing 30. I sincerely hope they are right. By-the-bye, I noticed the other day that the cattle yards at Corriedale had lireil the temper of one in the Jigapara district, and although I quite agree with him that Jfgapara should possess cattle vartfa, I think he forgot that real charity at home, and perhaps it will end at >Vtipara some day. My idea of the matter, Mr. Editor, is this : That I wish the public would make me Minister for Public Works for a few months, and I would have a railway siding in every paddock (my own, of coarse, included), and I don't know how many cattle yards, because I might want a stable, and if the public thought I was doing wrong—veil, then, I could atford to resign.—l am, &c., Aoeicola. April 17, 1830.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAItARC MAIL. —lt has been said that it 13 an Englishman's privilege to grumble, but I notice also that he seldom exercises hfs privilege without good and substantial reasons for so doing. Not, I mean to hare mrowl, and think I have good cause for doing so rather loudly. I have been patiently waiting for some time to see Tvlien. the Oamaru bakers are going to Imver the price of bread to something like a fair price between the producer and consumer. These are net times for working men to be paying fancy prices for bread. Sixpence per 41b loaf gives a splendid profit to the baker at the present price of Hmir. The bakers in other towns are sulling bread at a much lower price than ic cm be bought at in this town, and yet, strange to say, the flour 13 made in Oamartr. I do not wish to see a baker coming here from any other town to share in tht-sc large profits ; but, if bread is not speedily reduced to a fair price, there is every probability of additional competition in the baking line, and the Oamaru bakers will only have themselves to thank for the loas of some portion of their trade.— Urn, tfce. Cereal.