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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 133, 19 November 1875, Page 5

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Mr. Henet Driver, oh behalf of tlio New Zealand Loau and Mercantile Agency Company, reports as follows for the weekending November 17 :— Fab Cattle.— A full supply of 150 head were yarded, a large proportion of them being good qualify, and realised prices about equal to our late quotations. Best bullocks brought from £14 10s to £19 10s $ ditto cows, from £9 10s to Jtll-, or equal to 15s per lOOlbs, for prime quality ; medium do, 355. At the yards we sold on account of Messrs. John Anderson, M' Donald, Ouinness, and others, 73 head, at full market rates, and have placed 30 head privately during the wick. Fat Calves. — Very few were forward. Grood xealers are in request, at extreme rates. Fat Sheep. — A full supply of 2,300 were penned, and with the exception of a prime lot of luori-io wethers from Hyde Home Station, consisted of good quality cross-breds. Neu-ly all the lots penned found buyers at late prices, say, from 18s to 22s for best cross-breds, and from 13s 6d to 16s for merinos. At the yards we sold 600, and have placed 1,000 privately. "We quote prime cross-breds at about 4f d per lb ; merinos, 4£d. Fat Lambs. — Only a fow of inferior description were penned, which brought from 7s 6d \o 10s. Store Cattle continue in good demand, find we have during the week sold about 400 in various lots, at from £6 10s to £9 for bullocks, and £4 4s to £6 for cows. We will offer at Mosgiel, on Tuesday next, 150 had of rcry superior cattle, nearly all bullocks. Store *-hoep. — We havv no important transactions to report. \Yool, — \Vc have no cable advices from our London office to report this week in this market. No business has been done at present m the new clip, which is beginning to arrive in town, several parcels having reached our warehouse. Sheepskins. — We catalogued about 1,700 skins last Thursday, which sold at full rates Green cross-breds at 5s Sd to 6s Id ; merinos, 5s 2d ; dry skins, cross-breds, 4s 3d to 5s lid. Ilides continue dull late rates barely maintained. We sold butchers, slaughterers' green, at 21s Gd caen ; light to medium, 16s to 17s- _ Tallow is in good demand for good sound parcclb. inferior is difficult of sale at low rates, 20s to 235 ; good, 28s to 325 ; shipping parcels, 3'ls to 365. Grain. — There is more demand for wheat at lato rates. Market, very firm at 4s 6d to 4s 8d for milling samples. Oats ar? still neglected, forced sales having been made as low as Is lOd per bushel. The Melbourne market having assumed a firmer appearance, we expect to see a firmer market here. We h ive to-day received advice from our Melbourne office of a sale in one line of 25,000 bushels we shipped last month ou growers' account, at 3s 8d per bushel. ! Mb. Skeene reports for the week ending November 17 :—: — Affairs are very much improved in the labor market. All who are anxious to work can now get a turn^of some sort, and they are the wisest who stick into the first job offered, leaving aside all previous up-bringing. The crowds of men who were out of work during- the wintry weather have mostly all taken to work, but still too many hano- aboutJDunedin heedless of all advice and warnings. Remaining about town simply means bankruptcy of purse and morals. Farm and station hands are very scarce ; female servants are always welcome ; couples more oil' now ; shopmen and clerks too plentiful, and when, employed, remuneration is miserable. Wages— Cooks, waiters, grooms, &c,, from 2os to 4 Or per week; dairy and odd hands from 15s to 25s per week; house and hotel girls from ,£26 io £o2 per year ; cooks, barmaids, and housekeepers from 20s to 30s pciMveck • ploughmen «£52 to .£65 ; shepherds from 40s to 50s pc r week or ,£7O per year ; couples .£75 to ; day labor Bs, 9s, and 10s ; useful lioys and girls Gs, 7s, to 10s per week j carpenters 12s to 13s per day ; sheep shearers 20s per 100.