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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 183, 1 July 1874, Page 2

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■TRADE REPORT FOR JUNE, 1874. S t Standard Office, June 30, 1874. B Timber and Building. Imports: ■BgB (kauri) 15,000 ft; 65 Doors ; 25 pair Bhes, 5,000 ft. mouldings. Exports : Bo, oooft. White Pine, and 10,000 Shingles ■twise. Several New Buildings have been com■ced, and are still in progress.—Additions ■the Masonic Hotel ; School-room, and Kcher’s House at Tologa Bay ; Additions to ■ Music Hall, &c. A number of small cotMe and residences, are in course of erection : ■ there is still a great want of house accom■ation especially in the town. A capitalist ■>d find speculation, in this direction, a ■Stable undertaking. PRICES ■'main at last quotations. Bricks, £7 per ■; lime (stone) 2s 6d per bushel; kauri ■x*r, (first-class) 18s per 100 ft, second-class, ■ perlooft; kauri, P. T. and G , 22s per ■ft; white pine, Ils per 100 ft ; shingles B-P ) 14s 6d per 1000 ; shingles (kauri) 20s ■lOOO. ■ CARTAGE, B 8 per load within the township. ■ WAGES ■re also unaltered. Bricklayers, 12s per ■j Painters, 10s per day ; Carpenters, 10s ■» per day ; Blacksmiths, 10s to 12s per K Plumbers, l°s per day ; Laborers, 6s to ■r day. First-class Carpenters are still in ■and. ■nnestie servants are in great enquiry, with ■es according to qualification ; good ser■s can make t heir terms. Agricultural and ■ servants, spado laborers, &c., also will ■room at this season of the year. ■ the country districts there is little of ■ent to report, the weather having been so ■inually wet, little real work lias been done, ■ng sheep, in most flocks, appear to be suf■g very much. The natives are making a ■ with their fences ; especially is this notice- ■ from Waire-nga-a-hika to Pouparae. ■y are also building several weather-board Kes, which speaks well for their future ■eful intentions, and their desire to imi- ■ their European neighbors in the most ■zed ways of living. There has not been Bnuch drinking amongst them of late ; but, ■taps, this may be attributed to causes beBd their control. ■uring the month a great advance has taken ■ in the price of Brandies, Hennessy’s pale |g quoted in the Melbourne market as high Bls l|d. oilmen’s stores Bare been in full supply, and maintained ■ rates. The following ar? retail prices :— Blaide flour, 21s per 1001 bs ; Christchurch, ■■MBOtbs ; Port Cooper cheese, is per ■hanis and bacon Is per lb.; oats, short Kpply, 7s per bushel ; potatoes, 10s and Bards per cwt, with good market ; salt Her, 16tl per lb. ; fresh, 2s; Hay, £8 ■ton, with good enquiry. home produce. ■g and other Brandy of Stout, and Tens’* Bottled Ale, are quoted at something B pld rates, 13s per dozen, wholesale.

Bank Rates. Discount. Bills under 95 days 7 per cent „ over 95 „ 8 „ Overdrafts 9 „ Interest on Deposits. 3 months ... 3 per cent 6 months 4 „ 12 months 5 „ EXCHANGE ON LONDON. Buying Selling 90 days" H dis If promt 60 days 4 dis 4 prem* 30 days | dis J £ pre-m A At sight par 2 prem" Auckland, June 26. Mr. Buckland reports fat cattle at 28s to 34s per lOOlbs; fat sheep , longwool, 4d ; merinos, 2|d ; calves, from 16s to 45s each. Christchurch, June 26. In consequence of fhfce bad weather, the grain and produce market, during the past week, has been quiet./ Several large lines of wheat have changed hand's for shipment to England. \\