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1 June, 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 5381 
THE BUTTER MARKET. 
We understand that the drought in the South has had a great effect upon the 
butter market, so much so that New Zealand is shipping some few hundred 
tons to the Australian markets, and butter which has been shipped to England 
is to be reshipped to Australia, as higher prices can be obtained here than in 
the old country. 
CHEESE. 
New Zzauanp cheese is quoted at 42s. to 43s. per ewt.,and prices are hardening, ~ 
owing, it is said, to the prospects of a lengthy war and to the restricted manu- 
facture in England. 
WHEAT. 
Wuear is firmer, and prices are likely to rule higher. Last month the price 
of wheat in the United States rose to 7s. 3d. per bushel. 
