Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3946, 18 October 1875, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount'' f revenue lecoivcd at the Customhouse "ii goods cleared for consumption this day was 1.684 16s Sd. THE LABOR MARKET. Mr Skene reports that town demand in the labor market is still limited, i ut there is a. gradual improvement. Country people arc constant ly needed. The building trade is decidedly more active. Female servants of any experience are as scarce as ever. Wages--Couples from I Jiff to 1,90 ; married shcphenls, LB-0 to LftO- single do, L 65 and L7O ; ploughmen, J..-V2 to L 76. Cooks, barmen, grooms, and gardeners, 25s to 40s per week ; masons, carpenters, and bricklayers, from 15s per day— carpenters ruled by ability ; boys and girls, bs to 10a per week : day laborers, Bs, t's, and 10s ; house girls, L 26 to irtt: hotel girls, L 35 to Lot. u

THE SHARE MARKET.

Mr Frederick H. Evans reports sales of National Insurance at. -os ; Standard, Us ; National Bank, 09s ; Colonial, LI Is ; Mosaic! Woollen, 495; Walton Park Coal. ss. Sell firs’ prices—National Bank, LM 11s ; Colonial, LI. 4-sOd; New Zealand Insurance, L-* 53; South British, L.l '2s; National, Id os Gel; Standard, 14s Od; Otago and Southland Investment Co., LI Gs; Mosgiel Factory, L 3 os; Guardian Printing Co., LI 10s; Albion Browing C 0.,115; Porbury Park, LSO; New Zealand Shipping Co., L2 15a; Star of tho East, LI Is; Luokf 2s 6d; Kanieri Lake, 15s; Temperanco HallCo,, 18s; Friendly Societies’ Hall, 41b,

OTAGO RAILWAYS. The following is an abstract of the returns on the above lines for the month of Sepember, 1875 : MAIN C ENTRAL STATION, DUNEDIN. £ s. cl. £ s. d. Passengers 1,340 19 2 Goods traffic 1,374 10 11 Parcels 33 13 9 Live stock 2 13 Excess luggage 22 13 3 Cloak room, &c, ... 518 0 STATIONS ON PORT CHALMERS LINE. Passenger traffic ... 444 13 9 Goods 138 5 6 Parcels 27 0 0 Cloakroom 0 11 11 Excess luggage 2 9 6 Wharfage 22 0 10 STATIONS ON CLUTHA LINE, Passenger traffic ... 960 211 Goods 843 11 7 Parcels 44 12 6 Live stock, <fcc 3 4 7 SOUTHLAND RAILWAYS. Passenger traffic ... 643 18 0 Parcels 9 5 7 Live stock 26 1C 0 Storage, &c 5 13 0 Goods 1,392 1 2 MATAURA RAILWAY. Passenger traffic ... 203 2 6 Goods 249 17 0 Parcels 6 14 3 Live stock 0 16 OAMARU AND AWAMOKO RAILWAY. Passenger traffic ... 11 7 6 Goods 102 0 0 Parcels 0 5 0 £7,917 11 5 ■ - . <