Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4153, 19 June 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption this day wsa '1,11913s sd. There was a ..large attendance of speculators and considerable spirit was manifested at M'Laudress, Hepburn, and Co.’s sale this afternoon of the township of Helensburgh, situated between Mncandrew’s Bay and Dunoon. All the sections, sixtyone in number, were sold, prices varying from L2l to L 75. The amount realised was L 1,906. THE SHARE MARKET. Mr J. Reid Mackenzie reports as follows for week ending 17tli June:—Sales: South British Insurance, Sis; National Insurance. 23s 6d; Standard Insurance, 12s 3d to 12s 6d; Notional Bank, 74s 6d ; Colonial Bank, 31s 6d, 82s, and 32s 6d. Buyers; Nations*. Bank, 74s 6d; Colonial Bank, 31s 6d; Bank of New Zealand, 3555; Mosgiel Company, 40s; Shipping Company, 73s and 745; Forbnry Park Company, L 24 ; Qreymouth Coal Company, 20s; Friendly Society’s, 30s; "Walton Park Company, 6s 6d. Sellers; New Zealand Insurance, 80s; Albion Brewery, 7s; Mount Ida Pastoral Company, 200s; Otago and Southland Company, 265. Money: Interest npon freehold securities, 8 and 9 per cent. Whitolaw and Co. report sales of shares daring the week as follows: —Bank of New Zealand, Ll7 10s ,* Colonial Bank, Sis 6d: National Banks, 745; National Insurance, 23s 8d; South British, 54s 6d ; Standard, 12s. Buyers—Mosgiels, 350; Walton Park Coal Company, 6s 6d; Otago and Southland Investment Company, 355; Bank of New Zealard, L1710s; Colonial Bank, 31s; Forbnry Park Company, L 2 4; Standard Insurance, 12s; South British, 535; National Insurance, 235. LABOR MARKET! Mr Skene reports the labor market is now feeling the usual winter slackness. Broken weather ana the short days make the weekly earnings small. Form and station hands of experience are constantly wanted. The building trade, though not active, is fair for the season; iron workers complain of slackness; station couples are seldom needed at this season; female servants of experience are much wanted: office and shopmen have poor prospects here. Wages j—Couples,L 60 to L7O; shepherds, LOO to L 65; ploughmen, L 52 to L 65; day labor, 7s, Bs, and 9s; bnsumon, 9s and 10s; dairy hands, 15s and 20a; carpenters, 10s to 14s per day; cooks, 20s to 355; ordinary house and hotel servants, 10s, 15s, and 20s; boys and girls, 6a to 10s; ordinary clerks and shopmen, 80s to 60s; ablebodied seamen, L 5 and L 6 per month.