COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 122, 27 August 1875, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Mr. Skfke reports for the week ending August 25 :— The s-idden ■ break in the weaMier has pub a complete stop to all out-door work. We may look for a good many such bursters ere winter says goodbye. Very few people are looked for at present. Ploughing is well through - -in most districts. Shepherds are not much asked, for, but their season will soon be on now. In all cases, wages are keeping ab the old level, 1 bub firm, as in no case do employers grudge good wages to good 1 servants ; but so many undertake duties of which they know nothing, tlmb it is impossible to bell tho genuine article till tested. Fen ae . I S3rvants who know anything are very scarce, bub ib will be -the same cry to the end of the chapter. Wages — Ploughmen and shoiliu'd » £53 to £70 ; coupbs, £75 to £100 ; handy men on farm or station, los bo 25s per week; day labourers, Bs, 9s, and 10s. The building trade is only kept back by the bad weather. House and hotel girls geb from £26 bo £52 ; useful boys and girls, 5s to 15s per week. Store hands are very quieb. Mr. llexrx Driver, on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, reports as follows for the week ending August 25 :—: — Fat Cattle. — .As only a moderate supply of about 100 head came forward, there was a firmer market, and a shade betber than Jast week's rates obtained. Bcsb bullocks brought from £12 to £16 10s ; dibbo cows, from £10 to £15, or equal to about 42s 6d per 1001 b. for best quality, and 36s for ordinary. Ab the yards we sold 30 head at full rates, and privately 300 head for delivery during October and November. Fab Calyes. — Only a very few penned, and sold at 655. Good voalers would command extreme -rates. Fat Sheep. — The market was again glutted with about 3,0C0 sheep, consisting chiefly of good to prime cross-breds. Ouly aboit one-bhird the number penned found buyers. Most of "the sheep now offering nre deliveries under time contracts, and are selling at a loss to the dealers. Best cross-breds only realised los" to 18s 6d, or equal lo I about 4d per lb. At the yards we sold 400 at above rates, and SUO' privately for delivery next week. .Store Cattle and Sheep. — With tho exception of sundry small ■ lo'is, we have not heard of any transaction in either cattle or sheep, although bothjire very saleable, without any offering. Wool. — We arc yet without cable advices of the opening of the August sales, and have no business in this market. AH small lots offered at our weekly sales bring full rates. Sheepskins. — A large attendance of buyers, with a full catalogue of principally green skins, caused a brisk sale at advanced prices, principally in cross-breds, which sold al 5s 6d to 6s 7d ; Leicesters, - 7s 2d; merinos, 4s 3d bo 4s lOd. Dry skins: Cross-breds, 4s lOd to5s 8d ; merinos. 2s 9d to 4s lid ; pelts, lOd to Is lOd. " Hides. — Market dull ab lower rates. We sold ordinary light hide .ab 14s to 15s ; medium, 17s 6d to 20s. Tallow. — None offered lasb week. We have several lots for today at 2 o'clock. Grain. — Wheat is in steady demand at 4s 5d to 4s 6d for fair to good milling, 4s 5d to 4s 7d for extra choice. English market quoted higher, 57s to 58s. The market is belter supplied with oats, and local dealers "are supplying thomselves at less than oar quotations : shipping demand slight. We have sold good heavy feed ab 2s Od, and quote feed 2s 7.d to 2s Ort ; choice milling, 2s lid. Barley — Good! malting is in demand. Wo sold a superic r lot of Oamara grown at Cs; good, 5s 6d to 5s 9d ; milling, 4s 3d to 4s 6d.