Farmers v. Milters. — The North Otago Times says: — There has been disputation going on between the southern farmers and millers, and it has reached the point where the gage of battle is thrown down, or rather where one party pulls his coat off and invites the other to tread on the tail of the garment. Tha Taieri farmers think the Dunedin millers are not offer ing a fair price for wheat, and threaten reprisals. Several of the wealthier of the Taieri settlers have threatened to e-tarve the millers out, and the modus operandi is this : They will advance at 6 per cent on the security of the grain to thoße farmers who have engagements to meet, the grain to be stored in the farmers' barnp, &c. The wheat will be then held back till tho price demanded— -3s to 3s 3d— is obtained, and if either of these prices is not offered i millers will have to import or close their mills. Of course this is completely ignor ing the influence of the Home market on \ prices, but that is a question outside the ' range of the present dispute. No doubt if bhe southern farmers are bent on carrying 1 jut their determination they can do some- \ :hing, for notwithstanding tho floods to ivhich the Taieri has lately been subjected, ;here is still a good deal'of wealth on the Plain. -Developments will be anxiously j l patched for. i

The Star. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1893. The Bruee and the Bogey.
