15,044. Was the price the same about 5th July following?-About the same. There has been little or no alteration on the price of that flour almost the whole season.
15,045. If you saw an entry of flour at 5s. in a passbook, and another of overhead flour at 1s. 3d. in the same book within the course of a month, would you think it probable they were the same article,-the quantity not being mentioned?-Yes. 5s. would be the price of a lispund, or four pecks and 1s. 3d. of peck.
15,046. Shetland meal, I suppose, is an article that you hardly ever have in the market?-We seldom or never buy it. In fact there is very little of it now to be got.
15,047. Then you cannot give me any information as to the price of it last July?-Not last July, but it always sells considerably below the price of south-country meal.
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LERWICK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1872.
<Present>-MR GUTHRIE.
ANDREW JOHN GRIERSON, examined.
15,048. Are you the proprietor of the estate of Quendale?-I am.
15,049. Are you also engaged in the fish-curing business?-I am. I have been so for 11 years.