COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Wednesday. LABOUR REPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1847, 8 May 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Wednesday. LABOUR REPORT.

Mrcvms R. M. Hi:i(.uroN aicu Co., 177 (jucaii-stivot, Auckland, luport: — Business in our labour dcpaitmeut has boon busk, and the supply of men servants good, cpecinlly so in good farm hands. A tew vacancies have been filled w ith v omen servants. AYe still have a numbei of the unemployed waiting engagement*., \i/. : Faun hands, 15s to £1 per week and found ; station hands, £10 to £~>2 and found; lirsfc-chiss ploughmen, 2'>s ; l.ibourei-, (i» to 8s per day ; youthh foi milking, <Ss to ll's ; niaiiiod couples, £V) to t7O ; men cooks, 2">s to r>oi , giooms and gaidenoi-, U">s and found: Iradosnii'ii at cm rent w.t'4t>> ; hold men and restam.uit hands, 1")-. to .")0i : btorumen and shop hands, l"is to G(K; hon-.ekcei)"is, I"' 1 ) to 20i; c«dks H> to 25> ; housemaid 1 -, 10-. to 12s ; geneial servants, 10-, to 1 1-> ; nursegirlf, 5s to 8-.. We Inn c w.utmg for eniployment, farm hand-!, labomois, cooks, bakeiN, .station manager, and oUieis.

LONDON M VRkl.l^. LON'DOV, May •">.— (Jomsol, rcunin at 101^. Nuw Zealand secuntio-> leniain at last quotations. AlrT.ud'" wlie.it, ok store, has fallen t«> 12s; Now Zealand ditto 10 main* at 35s to 4(K ; and Adelaide flour at 2Ss. Australian tallow is unchanged. I ON DON WOOL MAItKIU". London, May 3.— At to-day'.s wool sale 10,000 bales were catalogued. A pood demand was experienced. Gioss-bicds aio Ul above last saleV price-. Fine qualities of greasy nicimu show a slightly improved tendency. [pkk n./.1. wn m.a. en.l Loniion, j\Lay 3.— Wool.— Competition is inci easing, and the niaiket i.s hnnei, except 111 lambs, w Inch has declined \ to 1\ per lb. Home buyer-, aie purchasing fi eely. TTp to date 3^,000 bales have been bold. The list closed 011 the Ist instant. MKLBOUINK Ml MX MUthU 1 . Mkujoukni:, ilay <>.— Tlie Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) lcpoits of the local gMin niaikot as follows :— Wheat, Is to Is 2d. Maiket lathei weaker. Malting b.irlev finn at 4-. .')d to !•> J)d ; New Zealand o.its htm and 111 active demand at 2s i)d to 3^ foi feeding, and 3s Id to 3s 3d foi milling soi t-. ; New Zealand oats, under bond, m f.in demand at 2-. G<l to 2s i)d.