Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4231, 18 September 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption this day was 1096 4s 3d.

THE LABOE MABKET.

Mr Skene reportE, for the week ending lGtb. inst., a denided improvement in th* labor market, principally in the demand for ordinary laborers, farm and station people, and bush hands. The town inquiry is slowly improving with the opening season ; the building trade is healthv; couples move slowly; female ordinary servants' of experience are very scarce; storemen and clerks are ittle needed and poorly paid. Wages: Couples, LGS to LBO ; ploughmen, L 52, L 55. and LCO; shepherds, L6)and LC3; day labor, bush, road, and vail, 7s, Ss, and 9s; dairy hands, 15a, 20s, and 25s per week ; cooks, waiters, grooms, gardeners, &c, 25s to 50s; carpenters, 10s to 13s per day ; hona-i girls, 10s to 15s; hotel do, 12s, 15s, 20s, and 30s for cooks; boys and girls, 6s to 10s; clerks and storemen, IJOs to COs. THE SHAEE MAEKET. Messrs Wbitelaw and Co. report sales of shares during the past wetk as follows:—lnsurance? Standard, 12s 9d; New Zealand, 775; National, 25s 3d. Banks—Colonial, 31s 6d; National, 70s. Buyer b:—Banks—Colonial, 31s; National, 60rj. Insurances—Standard, 12a 6d; National, 25s 3d ; New Z*'»!au"d, 775; South British, 5Gs 6d. Othor companies—New Zealand Loan and Morcantile Agency Company, now issue, 38s; Walton Park Coal Company, t»s M; New Zealand Shipping Company, 74s • Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, 4Aj. Messrs K. Seward and Co. report for week ending 10th inst. as follows .—Sales: National Insurance 25i, 25s 3d; Standard do, 12s Cd, 12s 9d; New Zealand do, 70s, 77s ; Colonial Banks, 31s Gd, 32a 6d ; Walton Psrks, 9n; Albion Brewing. ss, Ss 3d Buyer*: Bank of New Zealand, LIS 2s Cd, LlB 5sNational do, 68s; Colonial do, 31s M ; New Nealund Insurance, 755; South British do, 58s.