Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4045, 12 February 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

■ • The amount o£ revenue received at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption this day was f.m 5h lid.

General business has been fairly up to the average dnring the weak, and some classes of goods have advanced in prict. The timely arrival of the Queen of the South from Mauritius, with a well-a9sorted cargo of sugar, will afford a supply of some qualities that: had become very scarce. The cargo will be offered at auction by Messrs M'Landress, Hepburn, and Co., on 'lhiesday, and a fair competition will undoubtedly take place. Candles and kerosene are in. demand at improved prices. The former commands 10J;l to 10sd, and Devoe's kerosene sells at ls7d in bond.••• Blood's stout continues in short' supply, with a brisk demand. Tennant's ale is somewliat easier, and can be purchased at 12s. Brandy, has also a downward tendenoy, in consequence of advices of full supply at Home.! Currants may bo quoted 5 at 4sd. Sultanas are still out of quotation. Dairy produce unaltered. .. THE LABOB MAJfcKET. ■': ,• •>" .'" Mr Skene reports that the leading demand ,on the labor market at present is feu* harvest people. Very few nan be got with any fair knowledge of the' work) Tovm wauts are still limited. . The building trade is more'active, carpenters especially. Store, men and clerks difficult to place. Bushmen are slack;. couples'njove slowly, > Female servants far short of tha demand. Coal miners needed. Waees: Cisjclpleß,,.L63i.to,Lßo, and found; ploughmen and shepherds, L 55 to L7O; harvest hands, 30s, 365, and 50sper week; dairy>and'bdd'haß43., l&to' 26s> house girls, 10s to 155,; hgtel do, 16s to 80s; cooks, barmen, waiters, 25s to 50s and found; day labor 8s and 9s ; carpenters, 12s and 13s; boys and giylaj 6s to 15s per week; governesses, L 52 per steremen, 30s to 60s per week,. • THE SHAEfe MARKET. , Mr Frederick H.. Evans reports for the week ending 12th inst.:—:Sales: Colonial Bank, 26s (85s paid up);- JNew Zealand Insurance, 635, 62s 6d • (70s .paid up); Standard, lis 6d (lis paid up). Closing priqes i. National Bank,' 74s Colonial Bank, 26a ; National Insurance,. 235: Standard, lis Cd ; New Zealand Insurance, 625; Mosgiei Woollen 408-3 Albion Brewery,: 10s; Forbury Park. L4O.

Mr Hooper reports the share market as follows • Colonial Kauks, 265-' to 278,' 35s paid; National Banks, 735, 70s paid; National Insurance, 23s 6d to 23s 9d, 10s paid; Standard Insurance, lis to lis 6d, llspMd; New Zealand Insurance, 62s to 635, 70s paid j Mosgiel, 40a, paid, 70s; Temperance Hall, 16s 6d, 20s paid; Friendly Societies ■ Hall, 355, 40s »aid.! Wmtelaw and Co. report gales of snares during the week as follows':'—National Bank, 74s 6d; Colonial Bank, 275; National Insurance, 24s 6d; Standard InsurMicej<l2sy,' Buyers s South British'lnsuranco, 53.s Cd; Standard Insurance, 245; National Banks, 745; Colonial Barks, 265: Porbury Park Company, I ~40; Walton Park Coal Company, 2s 6d.J ; ■.l ■■: ■ '. ...;...■..■■ , t ■■'•* ' [Bt Xewgraph.] WEIUNnTON, February 12.—Mr O'Shea reports • Flour, Lll to Ll2los'; wheat, 3s 9d to 4s; oats, 2s Mft6 3s. Tlie marketjis hare ,of potatoes. Old hainß.and liacon, ls.to Is 2d; cheese, 10$ d.