Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4170, 8 July 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption this day was I £olos 7d.

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Mr Buckland reports that fat cattle are at 27s to to 35s per lOOlbs: sheep, 21s 4d to 31s Jd per lOOlbs. .

A good business has been transacted throughout the week in the general market, although there has been a Blight decline on some few articles. Hennessy's brandy has slightly declined, and parcels havo been placed at 31s. Whisky partakes of the depression and is dull of sale, hut we cannot quote any positive change in price : but as the market is fully stocked easier terms are procurable. In caudles a decline has takeu place. We observe there has been a decline of Is 4d in the Melbourne market, and in Dunedin they command 9}d to 9sd. Kerosene has been made a speculative article during the week, and stocks have fell into one hand. The price has in cousequenco advanced Is 8d in bond. The stock of best white sugar has fallen low. We notice, however, that the Obeona, with a cirgo, has arrived from Mauritius. Should it contain a proportion of that class, it will be a timely supply. Tho vessel is consigned to Messrs W. and J. Scoular. In tea but few transactions have taken place. The produce market is rather easier, partly owing to the difficulty of procuring vessels for shipment coastwise. Butter has fallen Id, and good samples are procurable at Is 3d. Cheese, lOd. Hams and bacon inchanged. Oats have been dull, mainly through the cause just alluded to. There are several orders in town waiting execution, but buyers hold off until shipping can be had.

LABOE MARKET,

The demand for out-door workers has slightly.improved. Couples suited for couutryarc now in good demand, ploughmen and shepherds' are stiff to move. Wages beinf? low, odd hands and knockabouts are asked for. Coal-miners are active. The building trade is fair for the season, ironworkers still dull, shopmen and clerks overstocked. Trained female servants of all sorts much needed. Wages:— Couples, LG.S to L7O; dairy hands and knockabouts, 15s to 20s; ploughmen, L 52 to LCa: shepherds, L6O to L7O; carpenters, 10s, 12s, a-sd 13s; bricklayers, 14s; day labor {road, rail, and bush), 8», 9s, and 10s, coalmiuers, 9s per day ; cooks, waiters, bar, &c, 20s; 255, 30s, and top hands, 50s and 60a; House girls, 10s to 15s ; hotel do, 15s, 203, and 300 : useful bov,s and girls, 6s to 10s; ehopmen and clerks, ordinary. 30s to 50s.

SHAEE MARKET.

Messrs "Whitelaw and Co. report, sales , during the wok of the following shares:—Bank of New Zealand, LlB ?s 61; Colonial, 32s 9d; National, 74s 6d; Standard Insurance, 12s sd; South British 545; Nugget and Cornish, 17s od. Buvers : Bank of New Zealand, L 18; National, 7oS; Co'oirial, 32a 3d; Standard Insurance, 12s ; South British, 52> 6d ; National, 22s 6d to 235; New Zealand, 74b ; Nugget and Cornish, 15s; Forbury Park Company, L 24; Otago and Southland Investineut Company, 255. Mr Frederick H. Evans reports for the week ending Bth inst.:—Sales : Standard Insurance Shares, 12s 3d; National, 23s 6d ; Colonial Bank, 31s 9d, 325; New Zealand Shipping Co., 81s; Greymouth Coal, 255. Buyers: Bank of Now Zealand, LlB- - Bauk, 74s 6d; Coloni:il Bank, 32s • Now Zealand Insurance, 75s (90s paid) ; Standard do, 12s Od; Otago and Southland Investment, 25s • Walton Park Coal Co., Gs.