Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3845, 21 June 1875, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount of revenue leceived at the Customf°r conannj l >tiou tbi s 'lay THE LABOR MARKET, Mr Skeue reports that out-door work of all kinds is plentiful but the difficulty is to get at it regularly hl,roken l m i e J ells sorely on laboring men with many mouths to feed. The building trade is at the dullest. Indoor trades are healthy; female servants short of the demand by a half; ploughmen and shepherds far from being too plentiful. couples, L 65, L7O, and L9O; ploughmen, shop* and handy station men, from 16s to 25s per week ■■ pick and shovel men, Bs, 9s, and 10s per day pit sawyers, 12s per 100 ft.; carpenters. 10s and 12s per day; house girls, L 26 to L4O; hotel do. L 36 to L 5 2; boys and girls, Cs to 15s; cooks, barmen waiters, &c., 25s to 60s per week; very little mqiury for storemen and clerks, business being at the dullest season; blacksmiths, L3to L 4 per week. THE SHARE MAR \ET. Mr Hooper reports that there was rather more activity in the share market last week than for some time past. There is, however, not much change m the value of tho several stocks. National Insurance have receded about Is per share, present price -is. Standards have slightly advanced, nud ore now worth 13s Od. Colonial Banks, 27s National Banks are firm at 78s 6d. Shotovers paid up worth 4s. Arrow River looking up- heticr prospects. Star of the East shares ore held for L 7, dividend 8s per share. Titanic Steel Company’s shares LG pa*d up, worth L 3. 1 y • er i ck H. Evans reports, for the weekendmg 19th mst.. a downward tendency in market value of nearly all kinds of slaves. Standard Insurance shares continue very firm, and are slowlv nsmg in value. There are not sufficient National Bank shares to supply the demand. Some brisk business was done in Lucknows at the close of last and beginning of this week; they now stand at L 3 7s od. Shotovers are quieter at about ss, and Star of the East remain at L 7, notwithstanding the excellent dividend just paid of 8s per share. Sales • National Instance, 23s 3d to 23s 6d ; Standard, 13s 3(.; Foibury Park, L 32; Lucknow, L32s 6d ; Shotover, ss. Sellers; National Bank, L 4; Bank of New Zealand, LI8; Colonial Bank, 275; New Zealand Insurance, 50s; South British, 47a; National Insurance, 23s 6d; Standard Insurance, 13s 6d • Otago and South and Investment, 275; Mos-iel WooUen 54s ;> Guardian’ Printing Company, 50s; Daily Times and Witness,' LSO ; Albion' Brewing Company, 3s; Forbury Park, L 33: New Zealand Shipping 275; Star of the East Quartz Company L 7; Lucknow do, 1.35s ; Shotover (fully poidupb fe; Kamen Lake Water Company, 20s. Buyers • National Bank, L 3 18s 6d; Soutli British Insurance 455 ; National Insurance, 22s 6d; Standard Insurl now’L3 S3d; Shotover ( full y P aid up), 4s; LuckLUCKNOW MINING COMPANY. shareholders of this company was held on Friday at the office of Messrs M’Landress, Hepburn and Co., when tho half-yearly report of the mining manager was read, and the report of the directors adopted. From the minim? manager s report it appeared that the prospects of the company were of a very satisfactory nature, .the tunnel, which was commenced upwards of two and a-half years ago, in order to cut the tested reef at a lower level, is now completed, and 70 feet of stone, varying in thickness from 3ft. to Ift 6in ready to break out and crush. The report also referred to the discovery made in the course of prosecuting the tunnel workings of a new lode of a very rich nature, from which also s.one is now being taken oat for crushing, instructions having been forwarded to the I “ n f-« anag . er , to kee P the stone obtained from these different places separate in order to ascertain the respective yields. The workings on this reef originally known as the Colclough, have now been prosecuted for five years, and those shareholders who have persevered in pushing forward prospecting works such as have been here entailed (the tunnel, alone, costing within a fraction of L 3.000), deserve all the returns they now seem on the eve of enjoying In this case, as in most of the heavy mining ventures, Dunedin capital has had to bear the heavy end of thensk and responsibility through-