COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1281, 15 May 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mr. George Greenfield reports that he held a of furniture, onions, carrots, fruit, &c., at his mart to-day, when the attendance was large and the bidding very brisk, furniture especially fetching good prices. Carrots, 3s 6d per bag; onions, Id ; potatoes, 43 per bag. Plated goods, watches, jewellery, clothing, &c., at, good rates.

THE LABOR MARKET. %HTf Henry Macintosh reports for the -week ending 15th May. as follows: The demand for labor during the week has been dull, the principal business being in domestic servants for town and country; female cooks and good hotel hands are scarce.. For men the demand has been slow, and. with the prospect of a hard winter many of our best hands are clearing out for the Cape, as they seem to be under the impression that New Zealand is done for a time, and having saved up a little_ money they naturally wish to better themselves. This will make things better for those that remain behind, and we have no doubt that things will take, a turn for th 6 better soon, and tliafc the winter may not be so bad as anticipated.

DUNEDIN. [by telegraph. J May 13. Wheat, 33 lOd to 4s; fowls' wheat, 3a to 3s 3d; oats, Is 3d to Is -id; barley, 3a lOd to 4s 3d ; feed, 2s fid to 3s ; potatoes. L2 10s; old hay, L 4; newoaten hay, L 3: chaff, L 3; straw, L2; bran, I*3; pollard, L 4; flour, large sack?,-LIO 10s to LlO 15s ; oatmeal, L 10: pearl barley, JilS ; onions, 7s J new cheese, sd; bacon," rolled, lOd; do, sides, lid; hams, Is. Prime fat beef, 22s Gd to 25a ; mutton. 2_fd.