COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1236, 3 April 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE LABOR MARKET. Mr. Henry Macintosh reports for the week endine 3rd April, as follows Business has improved during the week. Male and female servants have been in good demand, and numbers of orders not lilled op. Men of all classes are plentiful. Thorough good general servants and female cooks are scarce. Rates of wages, except in special cases, are considerably lower than last year, owing to the supply being so much greater. However, we hope that the prospect ahead will not be so gloomy as many anticipate. We have now got the laying on of the water supply, and probably the Government will start the Livingstone lino soon. These will absorb a great quantity of oar spare labor; and when the squatter and fanner are fully supplied, the surplus should not be so great and our winter not so bad as many think. dunedin. [BY THXEOKAFH-l April 3. Wheat, 4s to 4s 2d; fowls' wheat, 3s to % 3d; oats, Is 3d to Is 4d; barley, 4s to 4s 6d ; feed, 2s 6d to 3s; potatoes, L 3 to L 3 ss; old hay, L 4 , new oaten hay, L 3 *>s ; L2; bran, L 4; pollard, L 5; flour, large sacks, Lll to Lll 10s; oatmeal, L 10; peart barley, L 2 2; onion 3, 73 ; new cheese, 5d to 6d; bacon, rolled, JOd; do, sides, lid; hams. Is. Prime fat beef, 22s Cd; mutton, 2|d to 2Jd. AUCKLAND. [by telegraph.] April 2. The Easter holidays have interrupted business, and very little has been done during the week. Bceadatufis arc unchanged. The local mills are fully emptoyed. Flour, LI2 to Ll4 per ton; Southern do, Ll2 to Xil3; bran, L4sato L 3 103 ; oats, Is 9d to Is lid. LAND SALE. At a sale of runs yesterday the following properties in this district were disposed of : Section 52, block 111., with a valuation of L4O, the upset price being L 5, was knocked down to J. S. Anderson for L 45, after a spirited competition. Section 53, unaurveyed, was put up at L 5, and bought-by Robert Wilson for L3l 10s, with snrvey fees added (L 3 15s). There were no bidders for the immigrants sections, with cottages, at Georgetown (beyond Oamaru). The cottages were burdened with a valuation of L6O each.