Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3832, 5 June 1875, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption this dav was L 298 16s. y

The first, of the mouth has opened with a fair amount of business, and as cartage remains at fair i ates, supplies continue to be sent up country. The Kobct Jones from Mauritius, and the Kosehtul from Melbourne, have brought seasonable supplies of sugar and rice. Prices generally have not altered much. There is rather more inquiry for Hennessey’s brandy in case, which we quote at 32s 6<i for parcels Hennessv’s bulk is neelected, the demand being for second brands, on account of price. Sugars have been moving off freely: prices notwithstanding are very low, on account chiefly of the large stocks of Tnrravil'e sucars in the market,. Dried fruits we quote: Elemes 7d to 7id : sultanas, 71 d; currants, 4-id. Candles command IOJd to 10Jd. Hams and bacon (new cure) are now in fair supply. Cheese continues scarce! and sales are effected atiojd. Wliitelaw and Co. report the sale of shares during the week as follows :—National Insurance, 25sBritish, 475; Standard, 12s 6d; Colonial Banks, 27s 6d; National, 765; Mosgiel Woollen Factory Co., 54s ; N. Z. Shipping Co., 80s; Albion Brewing Co., 3s. Sellers:—National Insurance Co 255; South British, 48s; Standard, 12s 9d; New Zealand. 325; Colonial Banks. 27s 6d ; National, 78s ■ New Zealand, L 1 8; Albion Brewing Co., 10s ; N. z’ Shipping Co , 295.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company have received the following commercial teleoram per Taranm “ London, May 28 Wool: Up to date 130,000 bales have been sold. Competition on Fi-i-ncb account Is active, but the German demand is dull for scoured. The market is firmer) or medium and inferior greasy. The market is easier for superior greasy. Cross-bred lambs, market easier Superior clothing, washed, and superior combing washed, have advanced lid to 2d per lb. The wheat market is quiet. Adelaide is worth 49s per 494 lb. The weather is favorable for the crop here.

THE LABOR MARKET, MV Skene reports —The demand for working, people, both men and women, has been very active during the week. Good female servants are miserably soiree; shepherds are quiet; farm hands always wanted; shopmen and clerks difficult to move. Wages—Laborers, 8s to 9s per day; ploughmen, L 52 to L7O: couples, L 75 to L 99 ; shepherds I 60 to L 75 ; carpenters, 10s, 12s, and 13s; men cooks, 25s to 60s ; house girls, L 26 to L4O; hotel do L 36 to L 52; boys and girls, 6s to 15s per week ■ handy men, 15s and 20s per week; groins, 25s and 30s per week. > THE SHARE MARKET. Mr Hooner reportsNo improvement in the share market can be reported. Stocks of almost every description are exceedingly flat. The fact of Rational Insurance shares receding, in' value is sufficient proof of this. Eighteen months ago the company's shares were worth 33s or 34-; t' -day t jeyaro worth no more tt an 21s. I think it is within the province of a broker fif he can do so) to point out the cau es for this state of things, mid in my opium® fhev are—lst, The very great competition for those snares at the starting of the company put them to a fictitious value ; 2nd, the now-admitted scarcity of money ; and 3rd, the buying at high prices on bills, paying for discounting 8 per cent., and recei ring in dividends only about 31 per cent, on the actual cost to them of the shares. It is generally considered that these shares will declim still further in value, but if so it will bo only for a very short time, as the success, of this company 'must ultimately greatly enhance the value of "the'shares Standard Insurance' shares' are advancing slowly but surely; present place, 12s fid to 13a, freely mqmred' for. Colonial B.npks, 20s fid to 275. firm B rA ,sh 48s fid. National Banks! 47s oa. Other stocks about late rates. Mr Frederick H. Evans reports that the week opened with prospects of good business, which were not altogether realised. National Bank shares wore constantly inquired for at LS 17s 6d and L 3 18s. and are held for L 4. Colonial Banks “ stick” at 275, which hi unaccountable after the sport of last week. South British XusuafiCe shuftfc are vety afii

National Insurance follow the lead. Standards are more lively, and will increase in public favor a<= the end of the mouth d aws nearer, especially as them are rumors of a good balance :md a dividend. Tliorc has been little or no business in any other description of stocks. The Star of the East claim wash up to-day. and the result is anxiously looked forward to. The Guardian Printing Company have made a call of 10s. Sales: National Bank, L 3 17s 6d, L 3 18s; Coloniol Bank, 275; National Insurance, 25s • Standard Insurance, 12s 3d, 12s 6d. Sellers : Bank of New Zealand, LlB ; National Bank, L 3 ids paid up. L 4; Colonial Bank, 30s paid up, 27s ; Smith British Insurance, Id 6s 8d paid up, L2 7s; National Insurance, 10s paid up, 255; Standard Insurance 10s paid up, 12s 6d; Otago and Southland Investment Company, 20s paid up, 275; Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, L 3 paid up, L2 14s; Guardian Printing Conjpany, L 3 paid up, par ; Daily Times and Witness Company, L4O paid up, LSO; New Zealand Shipping, 50s paid up, 30s; Star of the East L 5 paid up, L 7. Buyers: Colonial Bank, 26s 6d •’ South British, 455; National Insurance, 24s • Standard Insurance, 12s 3d; Mosgiel, L2l3s ; New Zealand Shipping, 265. [By Telegraph.] Lyttelton, June 3.—Grain market quiet 12 332 sacks wheat were shipped in the Warwick for London. Qu.’tatjonsi-P 0.i., wheat. 3s 6d; oats, 3s Tid a rl r 7, T t ?| 9d n to 53 : PQtatoca, Ll2 15s : flour, LlO lus to Lll; bran, L 5 ; sharps, L 8; hams. Is : bacon, lid; cheese, lOd.