ASHBURTON.
Yesterday. * 1; .The weather is magnificient for the BarTest, which is now general throughout Ashburton County. Numbers of men are arriving daily and demanding high Wage 6,' which' farmers are compelled to give. The. rate for an ordinary harvester is £3 10s an.d found; for machine driver, £4 and found. There .will nobwitbstanding be a great scarcity of labor, as the crops are very heavy,-and there will be an enormous yield. At a Government sale of town sections held on Tuesday—the allotments being at a distance from the business part of the town and «poorly situated—exceptionally high prices' were realised. The land in Ashburton district is rapidly increasing in value consequent ou its magnificent crops, both and quality, , r-K David Thompson," engine-driver,' who met;with an accident yesterday, hua.recovered consciousness, and is,progressing favorably.,.;"
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4381, 18 January 1883, Page 4
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133ASHBURTON. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4381, 18 January 1883, Page 4
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