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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1823, 13 March 1884, Page 2

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Waihato Ti >tcs Office, Wednesday. LADOUII IIKPOHT. Mksshs R. M. Hkic.htox and Co., 177, Queen-street, Auckland, report :— Our labour market dining the past week has been well supplied with men and youth*. Women servants are still .scarce. At the present time we ha\e a number of good hands. Engagements as follows:— Grooms and gardener, 2"h and found ; married couples, £j > to 670 ; labourers, fis to 8s per day ;_ tradesmen at current wages ; men cooks, 2-">-, to .">O-> ; st'ition hands, £40 to £52 and found ; farm hands, l. r w to 20.-; fiist-ciass ploughmen, 255; youths for milking, <Ss to 12s; hotel men and resturant hands, l">s to HO^ ; store men and shop hands, los to (iOs ; housekeepers, 15s to 200 ; cooks, 1 !>, to 2")s ; housemaids, 10s to 12s; gencial servants, l(k to 14s ; nursogirls, o-, to 8s ; governeasea, lOs to 25s ; l.umdry women, Mis to 20s; charwome.i, 3s to 4s pei d.vy, and others.

[Received March 11, 10.5 p.m.] MELBOURNE OK U\ MAKKEI". Melbouhne, Maich 11.— The Melbourne manager of the National Moitgage and Agency Company of New Zealand repoits of the local grain maiket as follows :—: — Wheat, 3s lOd to 3s lid. Market firmer. Malting barley dull and dropping, and prices barely maintained. To-day's quotations are 4s to 4s (id. New Zealand oats in firm demand, at 2s 3d to 2s Sd for feeding, and 2s i)d to 2s lOd foi milling: qualities. New Zealand oats, under bond, slim of sale, at 2s 3d to 2s Oil. Owing to full supplies, oats will probably rule low this season. lont)O>t noon s vli;s. London, Match 10. -At the wool sale to-day 8000 bales were offet ed. The market continues steady, but without active demand. LOS MS MUiKETS. LONDON, March 10.— Consols lemain at 101g.— New Zealand secmities aiu as follow :— 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 103 \ ; 3 per cent. 1889 loan, 104 ; -i\ per cent. 1870-11)04 loan, 101 ; 4 percent, insenbed stock, 1000r. —The market rate of discount has fallen \, and is now 3& per cent. The bank i ate is 3^,. —The maikets for colonial bieadstutfs and tallow are unchanged. [I'EH N.Z.L. AND M. Y. CO.] LoxnoK, Maich !>. —Wool —The maiket is unchanged, except for faulty. Shoit staple merino scoured has declined \d to Id per lb. For fine, greasy ciossbicd the maiket is. fiimer. Seedy and bun y wools are neglected Up to date, 170,000 bales have been sold.— Wheat.— The maikot is quiet. Adelaide is woitli 45s (id, and New Zealand is 41s per l!)lilbs.— Tallow. --The market is firmer. Mutton is woitli 42-, lid, and beef 3!)s per cwt.— -Leather.— The market is unchanged.— Now Zealand Hemp.— The maiket is quiet. The hiiei qualities aie in good demand. Fine is ■worth £28 per ton.

LONDON WOOL \N'I) (.HUN M \HM C The New Ze.il.uu! Loan and ALe.ic.mtde Agency Company lepoit undei date, London, J.\nu,uy 31 :— Wool. — Repoits fiom the houi^ inaiif.ic tuiing districts point to the pievalence of a very quiet feeling .uid to gieat caution on thep.ut of bu^eis who only purchase to cover immediate wants. One ot the main causes alleged to hay c induced tins teehng is that to which special lefeience was made in our last issue, \i/ , the, suggestion that so large a quantity as 10,000 bales might be available fOlf 01 the senes which open-, on the 12th pioximo. It is -till highly unpiob.ible that .uiy Mich total will bo l eached pnor to lOtli Februai y, when the hue will be drawn. Thoie was an avei.tge attendance of buyers at the fi Ist sencs of East Indian wool at Liverpool, winch commenced on 22nd and closed on 24th instant, but competition was not .miniated. Thine weie consideiable witlubawals, as the puces offered weie in many cases below the i.ite» ennent last Novembei. The sales of Ki\ei Plate Wool at Autuoip, whichcouunenced yesterday, aie expected to last until 7th proximo. The totil quantity available is 1(5,2."i0 bales, of which 1577 bales weie off Hied on the opening night uid U(i2 bales weie sold. The selection was not good, the attendance was iatlici poor, and the bidding was vesei \ cd. Theie was no quotable change on the lowest lates of No\onibei for old wool, but the new eh]) sold at jdper lb decline compaicd with lecent pin ate transactions. Jt is pioposed to offei some 3GOO bales of Austialian wool at a latei date. Anivals to d ite for the histsenes, to commence on 12th Kebiu.uy, aieas follow • New South Wales and < Queensland, 07,443 bales ; Victona, }o,(tfS ; South Australia, 40,470 ; Western Austiaba. 3">o ; Now Zfiilaml, TOW ; Cape ot (!ood Hope, 35,3!)8 ; total, 11)1,81") bales. COJJX Mvkku. — Practically no change has taken ]>lace in the geneial out-look. Arrivals have fallen off m volume, but no diminution of stocks has yet been lepoitcd. Millers still pui chase wheat '•paimgly, finding it niorepiohtable to invest m foieign flour at a low pi ice. The weather continues to be unusually mil tl,t 1 , and the consumption of bieadstutts is not liicieasin^. The quantity of wheat on passage oi slup inetit to the United Kingdom is l,7!W,000 quaiteis against 1,515,.-)u0 on l.Sth instant. The "visible supply in Ameuci is 34,850,000 busheUs as coiupaied wiMi 35,02."5,000 busiiels a foitniglit ago, and 21,800,000 .at a conespondmg date in 18^3. Inferior qualities of New Zealand have receded as much as 3s to 4s perquaiter on the fortnight, chiefly by reason of the accumulation of stocks of this des(r ption, for which 28& to 30i per 49(ilbs. would be accepted rather that they s-hould be kept only to deteiiorate in condition. Hitheito a consideiably quantity of this class of wheat had been taken for Holland, but the demand from that quaiter now appeals to be slackening. Flour is much depiessud, and hab declined about Is per sack of 2801 bs. In oats and beans only a limited tiade has passed, at about toimci puce*. To-day's quotations, ex gianary, .ue- as follow .—. — Wheat, Australian, 4")s lid to li>s pei 4001 bs ; New Zealand, long-beined, l.'Js to 44s ■, svvovagc, 40s twl to Its ; vnfcivov, 81s to 335; No. 3. 2«sto2'K. Vh,m, A»>tmh.ui superfine, 30-. to 30i (id pei 2dOH)s. gioss : fine, 2(is to 2H-, ; New Zealand patent, 2')s to .IPs ; fine, 2li-> to 275.