Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4063, 4 March 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

. The amount of revenue received at the Custom, house on goods cleared for , consumption this day was f 669.0s 3d. . ‘.r- ~ , • , . The New Zealand Loan. Agency have .received the loUowsng telegram: Wool.—Up to, date, ,40,000 bales Lave been soldi Competition is decreasing. The market is easier ■tad adeclinelOokedfor in cross-breda at the next sales. Up to date 183,000 boles Lave arrived. The irospects.mr the next sales are not so good; Tallow Stock of all sorts, 17,000 casks; mutton, L 46: beef, L 44. Leather is flat; best sides showed Is 4d decline, Others in, proportion." Westgarth’s Circular of the 24th December has •the following s~South Australian, os well as Queensland four per cents., are a little below the average, owing,to the lately issued new loans, while those of New South Wales and Victoria are arrested in any further advance'by the prospect of early considerable additions to Stpck. On the other the newer New Zealand issues have gained strength! especially the 4$ per cents. . After their heavy fall upon the four million issue iu the first quarter of the year, they are 96* and 97, or ij.to 2 per pent, above last month’s price.!' ' ‘Although, os a ride,' the- close' of a month' [is unfavorable 1 to extent of business, the transactions during the past week have been np to tbe average • the . demand) having , beta fair, though not brisk’ Throughout the .Province, complaints pro mode that trade is dull, yet the largest amount of revenae for goods cleared for consumption ever received in tae month was paid into the Dunedin Cus dm House during the past month. This is partly due to very heavy clearances of drapery goods having been mHe in anticipation of tbe coming orange of season. In the general market Tennant’s ole, which has been lor some time held dt!2s 6d, lias given Way, and has fallen to Us 9d. The demand, at the price, is good. Blood’s stout- is seated, and much inquired for at 11 s 6d. No marked change has taken place in articles of general consumption. Candles ace in demand tad realise slightly better prices. Colonial produce, so,far. as ham ß apd bacon are concerne a, is coming forward mote freely; and they are to be purchased on somewhat easier- terms, although a change of quotation is scarcely justifiable. Butter has improved, and commands Is Id to is 2d for flue Sualitios. Colonial cherse of good quality realises Od.

THE SHARE MARKET. Mr Frederick H. Evans reports, for tho week endmg 4th Inst.:— Soles: National Insurance 24s 6d; New Zealand Insurance, 55s (70s paid np). Colonial Bank, 275; Walton Park Coal, 2s 9d! Buyers: National insurance, 245; Standard Insurance. Los6d ; South British; 545; New Zealand, 5?? k C £& n Viiv B S nk » National, Ms 6d; Forbury PtairMOr Walton P-rk coal, 8s; Friendly Socleties, 355: New Zealand Shipping, 70s, Whltelaw and Co. report sales of shares during the week Standa d Insurance, 11s : South British, 55« 6d; National, 25s and 25s 3d: Colonial Bonk, 27a (36s paid np) ;s National, 745; Walton Park Coal Company, 3s, 6d and 4s; Forbury Company, LBS. Buyers: Walton Park Comptay, 8a 6d • National - Insurance, 25s$ . Standard. 11s; Colonial Bank, 285.; NattonaUßank, 74a cum div.; New Zealtad Bank, Ll7 03. NeW Issue South British, Mtoa,

THE LABOR MARKET,

Mr Skene reports that the market mores along quietly. Ordinary laborers and men with farm or station knowledge are easily placed. Skilled tradesmen find it mere difficult to get into their particula* groove. Shepherds are scarce, while coupU.s arc too plentiful. Shopmen and clerks are taking, the hint and trying other employment. Female servants of experience are decidedly difficult to line!. Gardeners and bushmeu quiet. Wages : Couples, from L 65 to L 80; shepherds L 65 to L7O; ploughmen, L'2 to L 65; day labor, bush, road, and bul-lock-driving, 8s and Dr:; carpenters, Us, 13s, nud 18s; hotel females, 12s, l&i, to 80s per week; house do, dOs to 15s; boys and girls, Gs to 10s; milkers mid odd hands, 10s to 20s; storemen, from Bfis to 60s ■ cooks, waiters, grooms, &c., 25s to 45s per week.

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.Christchurch,- March 3,—The export price f.o.b. at Lyttelton for wheat is 4s 3d; oats, 2s 3d; barley, 3s 9a to' 49; flour, LlO to L1I; cheese and butter, Is; bran, L3los: ryo-greA, 5s 6d to 5s 9d. Auckland, March 3. —Mr Binney reports : Dunedin flour, Lll; Christchurch, LIO 10s; Oamaru, Ll2; oats, 2* 3d; maize, 3s 3d; wheat, 4s 6d; butter; Is; hams, bacon. Is; cheese, 9d.