Commercial.
The amount of revenue received at the tins to in-house or. ..noils cleared for consnraptioo th : » 'Uv w»b 1,727 7s 9d. Business in the general market has been very active during the week, and large Quantities of goods have been forwarded to the interior. The only public sale was that of sugars, ex Ilobert Jones, by Messrs Whitelatv and (Jo., paiticnlars of which were published last evening. Stocks of tea and sugar are now much reduced, and they, as well as all other goods, ar inovin fr off briskly ; but no change of prices can be re” corded.
THE LABOR MARKET,
Mr Skene reports :-Thc Now Year holidays being over, mostly all have returned to the routine of daily life. Country visitors have left us The amount of work offering in every direction (lemands the services of every willing hand. The cry is, “ More men and women wanted,” and to prove that the demand is sound, wages are good, and freely paid. Female servants have still got the cards in their own hands. Wages - Smart girls, from LL'd to IM ; experienced do, from L4O to L 52 ; cooks as high as 30s per week; men for farm or station, L 52, LSS, L6O, and LGS per year; couples, L 75 to LOO ; gardeners, 23s and 30s per week ; masons for town, 14» and los—lSs offering for country • (Carpenters, 10s, 12s, and 14s; day laborers, 9s
and 10s; quarrymen, 10s and 11s; boys and girls, 6s, 7s, up to 10s per week; dairy hands, 15s and 20s per week ; station cooks, 30s per week. All in-door trades aie busy.
THE SHARE MARKET,
Mr Hoopei reports a limited number of transactions during the week ending January 9. In mining shares there is great depression. LI paid up Shotovers are offering at Is, with no buyers ; Arrow River Gold Mining are no better. Whether this state of things is ©wing to bad management, as has been alleged, or to the poorness of the ground, I dare not say. Insurance shares are firmer—National Insurance, 28s 6d; Standard Insurance, 10s ; South British, 48s. Bank shares are selling at former quotations.
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Evening Star, Issue 3707, 9 January 1875, Page 2
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356Commercial. Evening Star, Issue 3707, 9 January 1875, Page 2
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