Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4315, 26 December 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

The Labor Market. Mr Skene reports for the week ending December 23 as follows:—The only demand during the week has _ been for odd hands to fill up vacancies. In reality neither employes nor employers wish to enter into long engagements until the new year, after which prospects are good for' ordinary labor; and we have the certainty of a heavy grain crop. A few suitable couiitry couples are alwnys moving off. There is a vwy large demand for all sorts of fetsale servants, but no great improvement can be noted in the building and iron trades. Prospects are far from bright for clerks iind shopmen. Farm servants of experience are never too plentiful. "Wages: Couples, L 65 to L 80; ploughmen, L 52 to L6O; shepherds, L6sto L7O; day labor, 8s and 93; hotel girls, 12s to 30s; house do, 10s to 203 : dairy people, 15s, 20s, and 255; cooks, waiters, grooms, gardeners, 25s to 50s ; station cooks, 25s and 30a; storehands, 80s to 60s; waitresses, 40s to 50s ; boys and girls, 4s to 10s; carpenters, 10s to 15s ; bushmen, Bs, 9s, and 10s. ■ ———— Share Market. Messrs Whitelaw and Co. report sales of shares dnring the past week as follows.—lnsurances—National, 24s 6d, 255, 25t. 6d; Standard, 13s, 13s 6d • New Zealand, 925; Banks—Colonial, 335, 88s 3d 33s 6d; National, 66s ; New Zealand, Ll9. Other Companies—Mount Rangitoto Silver Mine, 65s New Zealand Shipping, 70s ; Walton Park Coal, 10s. Buyers: Insurances—Standard, 13s 6d : National, 255; New Zealand, 90s; South British, 665. Banks—Colonial, 83s; National, 655; New Zealand, LlB 15s. Other C< mpanies—Walton Park Coal, 10s; New Zealand Shipping, 70s; Mosgiel Woollen Factory, 425; Albion Brewing, ss. Messrs E. Seward and Co. report as follows for week ending 23rd inst.:—Sales: Insurance National, 24s 6d, 255; Standard, 13s 6d, 14s; New Zealand, 90e. Banks-Colonial, 33s 6d, 345; National, 675. Miscellaneous—Rangitoto Silver (15spaid), 60s, 655; Albion Brewing, 5s 9d, 6s, 6s 3d.