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Too amount of rcrenue received at the Customoiific on K'oods cleared for consumption tins (by ■.(•ns T 2,110 8s Cd. Messrs M'Landrcss, Hepburn and Co, this morniiipr sold by auction the booths for the approaching Caledonian Sports. The attendance of speculators was not large, and the bidding was not brisk. 'Hie following wore tbo prices realised Booth No. 1, LIG (.1. Scott); Nos. 2 and ;!, L3B (J. Scott) ; Nos. I and 5, 1,12 ( Harrold and Bain) ; Nos. G and 7, T,40 (,f. Cummings) ; Nos. 8 and 9, 1,10 (A. Dunning); Nos. 10, Ll9 (F. M'Grath). Tbo total amounted to L2UO, as against L2SC last year. THE SHARE MARKET. Mr Frederick H. Evans reports for the week ending 18th inst.Sales : Standard Insurance, I3s Gd ; National, 29*. Buyers : Colonial Bank, 30s ; Standard Insurance, 13s ; National, 21s Gd; South British, 60s. Market very quiet, and prices declining. THE LABOR MARKET. Mr Skene reports for the week ending ISili hist.: —Business has improved considerably, and town and country demands are more frequent. Female servants are very short of the demand. Couples ore still stiff to move. Masons and carpenters are more active. Shopmen are asked for. Hotel servants get placed rapidly in anticipation of Christinas holidays. Wages: Farm couples, L 75 to L9O ; ploughmen, L 52 to LGS; shepherds, L7O by tbe year; carpenters, 12s and 13s; masons, 15s per day : house and hotel girls, L2B to L 53; cooks, waiters, barmen, gardeners, 25s to 50s per week; store hands, 30s to 50s per week; sheep shearers, 20s per 100s; wool classora, 20s and 25s per day ; bush men, Os and 10s per day; milkers, 15s to 25s per week; boys and girls, Gs to 10s per week. [Br Ttu.KOßAr'ii.j MELiiorBNE.—-Wheat and flour have improved. Adelaide wheat, Gs Gd ; 2c,000 bushels Now Zealand oats sold at 3s Gd to 3s 7d, showing an improvement. The last sugar- sales showed a decline fLI ou brewing; other sorts without change. Kerosene has advanced in the Home market. Heanessv’.s case brandy, 30 3d. m
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Evening Star, Issue 4001, 21 December 1875, Page 3
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338Commercial. Evening Star, Issue 4001, 21 December 1875, Page 3
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