COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1849, 13 May 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Monday.

HAMILTON MA KkKi'.S. Mb Knoic Ri;roitr.s. —There w.i» a good attendance at Saturday's \\ eekly halo .it tho Mart. The following juices wore 1 utilised ; — Boots and shoes fetched good prices. Drapery realised imoice prices. Wincey, 5d per yard ; blankets, His per pair ; ovci coats, 15s to 20» each ; ti misers and vests, 10s to 12« each ; bints of cloth, lfis to 22s (id each ; apples, 3d per lb ; hams, lOd per 1b ; sewing machine, 345. At the sale of furniture at Mr Shaip's on Monday, theie was a largo attendance and prices nilcd high— viz. : Saddle, t3 10s ; bedsteads, 33s to 50s ; palhas«e&, 190 ; hair matlrnbs, £1 2s Gd ; washstands, 10s to J2s (id ; blankets, 13s to 24s per pair ; hair couch, 80s ; tender and irons, 27s ; bont-wood chairs, 14s 6d each ; fender and irons, 27s ; folding chair, 17s ; table, 40s ; chest diaweivs, 7- r )s ; clock, 2lks ; pictures, 12s each ; hoise. SS ; cows, £S and 27 I.ls ; pig;. .jos ; 2 H>tne\oi pups, ono month old, 10a each ; good-will of lease, £30.

CAMHKIDfii: MARK!, IN. There was a very large attendance .it Mess,is Clark and (lane's s.ilc of Mi-, itubt. Moreton'o furnituic at Cambiingo yesterday, and lar^e pi ices weio i cabled.

lABOUH lim'OKi 1 . Messks K. M. Huuuox axd Co., 177 Queen-street, Auckland, icport: — We have made many engagements, .md employed a good many hands dunug the past week, at curtent late of w.igo. Thoiough good ploughmen and competent hands are scarce, although we lu\ c a few legisteied on our books, but thoio arc numbeis of men waiting and u llhny to woik at lowei wages. Our engagements duung the past week have been. Faun hand-., l">s to 2Ch per week, and found; inilkeis, 10-> to ]>> per week and found ; cooks, 20^ per week and found ; waiter-., 2")-, to 30a ; and otlieii at current rates. We have legisteicd^ m our books — Station manager-., station hands, giooms and gardeneis, labourers, ploughmen, nulkeis, bushmen, manicd couples for fainis and bush work, cooks, waiteis, fatoreuien, assistants and otlieis. Women servants aic not quite m> scaico as they ha\ebeen during the last few mouths, and we have found them leady employlnont.—Housckeepeis, l r c to 20s; housemaids, 10s to 12s ; cooks, l~>s to 20i ; parlour-maids, 12-,. We ha\c tenants legistered on our books waiting for cmplojinent m the city.