COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1171, 17 January 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AUCTIONEER'S REPORT. Mr. A. H. Maude reports having to-day held a sale at his stores of pianos, stoves, registered grates, carpets, crockery, &c The attendance was small, but the binding was fairly spirited- AD the lots offered were sold with the exception of two pianos, which were passed in, the prices offered not reaching vendors' reserves. The following are the prices realised :—Coal scuttles, from 5a to '32 a.; registered grates, 17s to 275; office stoves, 17s to 2>s; stoves, 30s to 90s. THE LABOR MARKET. Mr. Henry Macintosh reports for the week ending 17th January, as follows : Business in the labor market has very much improved, all classes of servants'meeting with engagements freely. The demand in experienced servants exceeds the supply. and has always done so ;thc new importations seem to make no difference unless to lower the wages for the ordinary class. Rates of waccs as follow : Married couples, L 65 to L 75; shepherds. L 55 to L 6 5; ploughmen, 208 to 22s 6d with harvest wages; men cooks, 30s to 40s; female cooks, 20s to 30s ; housemaids, 13a to 15s; waiters, 20s to 2os j | waitresses, 13s to 15s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s; barmen, 30s to 403; housekeepers, 140; good general servants, 130 to 136; ordinary, L 25 to L3O; boys and girls, 7s to 10s; grooms, 20a to 25a; grooms and gardeners 'combined, 25a to 30s. Trades slack; wages low. Probable harvest wages, as per advice, 30a to 40s. DUNEDIN. [bt telegrafh.] January 16. Wheat, 4s 9d to 5a ; fowls* wheat, 3s 6d to 3s Od; oats, Is S<l to Is lOd ; barley, 5s to 5a 6d ; feed, 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes, L 6 5s to LB 10s, according to quality; new kidney potatoes, 7s: new round potatoes, 5s Gd ; hay, L 4; chaff, L 4; straw, L2; bran, 14; pollard, 15; flour, large sacks, Lll 10s to Ll2; oatmeal, 1*12; pearl barley, L 26; onions, 10a; old cheese, 7d; new do, 6d to ejd ; bacon, rolled, OJd ; prime fat beef, 25a; mutton, l|d. AUCKLAND. [ST TELEORAFH.] January 16. Business i« gradually recovering, and animation characterises the market. Breadstuffs are about the same. New wheat will open at about 6s. Millers are disinclined to operate until it has been stocked for a few weeks. Oats are overdone. Maize. —A cargo from Fiji sold at 2s 10£dto3s; new potatoes, fanners' lots, L4los to L 5.