ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 418, 25 October 1861, Page 2

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Arrivals.

3 August 21, afc Gravesend, the Blue Jacket, ftom ■.Canterbury, May 17i ' August 26, in the Downs, the Chapman, from Auckland.

DEPARTURES, July—Gladiator, Royal Stewart, Gananoque, Robert Henderson, Derwentwater, and Hound. August 11—Black Eagle, for Auckland. "' August 14—Albemarle, for Wellington. ■ Loading. For Nelson, William Browne; for Auckland, Mermaid and Avalanche ; for Wellington, Wild Duck and John Bunyan; for Canterbury, Sebastopol, Evening Star, and M'atoaka ; for Otago, Chili and Eleanor. SYDNEY MARKETS.—October 11. Fine flour, £16 " " Lamb, 6s. 6d. to 7s. per Best seconds, £1 5 per ton quarter. ton of 2000 lbs. Butter, 6d. to 9d. Wheat, 6s. per bushel Cheese, 6d to 7d. Wilkie's cabin biscuits, 23s Bacon and Hams, sd. to 6d. „ navy „ 15s Potatoes, £6 to £S. jji-oad, 4£d. per 2-Ib loaf Onions, £40 to £60. Beef, l£d. to.2|d. Oranges and Lemons, 4d, Mutton, 2d to 2^d. to Bd. per doz. Pork, sd. to 6sd. Hay, £G to £8 15s. Veal, 4d. to 6d. per lb. Straw, £3 10s. to £4 15s. LABOR. Business in 'the labor market during the past week has been very brisk, The demand for agricultural and general farm servants has been much greater than the supply. The New Zealand gold-fields has influenced the laboring population, and objections are made for long engagements. A great scarcity of good female domestic servants is perceptible, more particularly general -servants ; a supply of emigrants would be a great boon just now. Engagements have been effected at the undermentioned rates, viz:— Married Couples, £50 to £65 ■Farming Men, £35 to £40 Ploughmen, £35 Shepherding ITarnilies, £45 to £55 Stockmen, £45 to £50 Gardeners, £50 to £60 Bushmen, £15 Carpenters and Blacksmiths, £60 to £85 Female Domestics, £23 to £36

Adelaide Markets.—Fine flour, £ll; wheat, 4s 3d.—Sydney Herald's Telegraphic Correspondent.