COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 960, 17 May 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE LABOR MARKET. Mr. 11. Mackintosh report# for the week ending May 17th, as follows :—The demand for afi classes of labor has improved very much during the week, farm and station hands being fairly enquired for, and nom- ' hers meeting with engagements, but still a great number are idle. Of female servants there, is still a scarcity. Men cooks are scarce, and day labor pretty well employed. Mechanics of all ctasaes are also plenty of work. Numbers of Taboring men are employed at the grain stores, the port, and the railway, loading a rut anloading. at remunerative wages.; hut there are stilt a great many idle. Unless ptthtic works are commenced soon the winter wit! be a hard one for the working classes. Rates of wages an changed.

DUKEDIN. [BY TEtKtfRAPEI.] May 16.

Wheat, .Is <td to- 3s b*d ; fowls' feed. 2s fid to- 3» ; oats, new, -s 2d to 2a -fd : barley. as Sd to Be.; feed, 3s to 3s tad ; potatoes. L 4 5a to L't tOs : hay. new. L-t ; otd. L 6; chaff. L 4 to' L-t tOs : straw, Li ;"s: bran, Li ts : tfow. large sacks. L.O" to L£> IDs : oatmeal. EJS ; peart barley. L2W-: onions, 10s ; cheese, 7d to 3d ; bacon, !>Ad.

ESVERCARCri'LL. [ET 'IEI.JiURAi'H.i May 16.

Allowing for the usual quietness which always characterises the- middle of the month, transactions are Eairty numerous. Thtf prices continue low. Farmers for the most part are holding for a rise in v.ittte of produce. During the week sales have been effected a» follows t—Best new wheat, 4a ; inferior, 2a ® e3t n^* 2a to. 2s 2d ; fair teClbng samples , , l 3 ]o<l : barley fit for malting, 58 • P otat oea, L 4. At the units dour is wo.'™ 1 and for a parcel a shade less would he accepted ; bran. L 5; an ft pollard, T/> tOs, hags included. Oatmeal U worth Lt£> to LIS. according to parcel. The quality of breadstutla _is good this season, and has so far shut out imports.

AUCKLAND. [by telegraph;.] May Itl. Potatoes to-day sold at from Li> tOa to L(> 10s ; maut:, 19 6d ; whtr.it, 4s ; cheese. t>Jd tw Bci. The market is steady, though no particularly active demand exists.

TTMARL*. (From. to-day's Herald.) The grain market shows no alteration, and is not tifcuty to do so until some definite change tukes place in the I' ngtish and Australian markets, the present tendency of which ra to harden. 'W heat is stitt quoted up to 3s 2d ; oats, ts 9d to 2s Id; and bartey, 4s (id to 5s and us 3d.

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. [aV CADLK.]

Stoset, May 16.

Hennessy's brandy. 32s fid to 33a: quarters, 9s to 9s 3d ; kerosene. Is 7'd to ts 8(1; Patna rice, L2l ; New Zealand oats. 3a : Raven twist tobacco, ts fid ; candles, »s!d to tsd ; sugar unchanged.