COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1858, 3 June 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Monday.

HAMILTON MARKETS. > Mr Knox Rhtokivs.—There was a good attendance .at Saturday'-* produce sale. The following price*, were realised :— Bacon, Bjd per lb ; hams, fld yer lb ; gee^e, 4s (5d each { fowl?, Is 4d eacli ; pig", 10s each ; carrots 3s per cwt ; plough", €1 2s Gd to £1 5s ; harrow, 40-s; chum, 10s. Furniture fetched good pi icc>.

LABOUR REPORT. Me&!»bs R. M. Hkighton and Co., New Zealand Labour Evchange, 177, Queenj street, Auckland, report.— The supply of men and women servants- has been brisk, and far exceeding the demand, especially in. farm hands. The chief cause of the rapid supply is owing to so many arrivals from vaiious parts of New Zealand, Australia, &c. By our over, supply we are enabled to meet the want-, of our employers more to their satisfaction and requnements. Our engagements during the week arc as follow :— Milkcis, 10s to 15-, per week; labomoi-, fis to 8s per day ; bush hands, .« per day and house ; farm hands, 15s to 20s per week ; useful men, 20s ; under grooms, 203 per week and found ; blacksmiths, 40* per weok and found ; waiters, 255 ; second cooks, 2os to 30s ; cooks, 50s and found ; married couples £75 to £a>j and found ; we can supply general hands, clerks, Htoicmen, giooms and gardeners, baker*' assistants, carpentois, liotelmou, waiteis, man cooks, mairicd couples for farms and bush, labomers, milkers, station hands, station mnnageis, farm hands and farm managers. Women sei vants.—Nursegirls, 0b to 8s ; parlour-maids, 12s ; housemaids, lUs to 12s ; housekeepers, 15.s to 255; cooks, 12s to 20s ; geneial servants, 12s to 11s.

LONDON MUIKKTS. Lovdon, May Bo. —Consols remained at 10V.— New Zealand sccuutics are without qu7>table change.— Colonial Bie.idstulF-* : Adelaide wheat, e\ st<»ie, 51s ; Adelaide flour, e\ stoic, 38s ; New Zealand wlie.it, ex store, 3">s to 40-.—T he quantity of who.it .afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,01)0,000 quartei*.. — T.illow (Austr.ilian) ; l^.ni' a\er l ige quality beef, .'J'is Od.

LOVDON WOOL SALES. Lo\nox, Miy 31. —The tliinl series of colonial wool auctions will commence on Au^u^t 12 and the fomtli MMies o-j November IU. NK W /, B\LVX D M L T TON . London', May 31.— Fume New Zealand mutton h now celling .it .">UI par lh.