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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 189, 10 November 1876, Page 5

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Me. Skenb reports for the week ending November 7, 1876 as follows: — Business is brisk among the laboring classes, especially for hard-working men on road, rail, bush, farm, and station. Shearers are hurrying to the different sheds. Shepherds and musterers are in large demand. Couples are very quiet. Farmers decline couples with laige families, and, at the same time, admit they are wrong in uofc providing cottages for such. Town trades and business are steadily reviving, giving a better chance to skilled mechanics, shopmen, and clerks, Suitable female servants are very scarce. Wages — Day labor, 8s and 9s; musterers, 40s, and upwards; shepherds, £65 and £70 ; ploughmen, £52 to £60; carponters, 103 to 13s ; dairy people, 15a to 25s ; house girls, 10s, 12s, 15a, and 20* ; hotel girls, 12s, 15s, 20s, and 30s ; gardeners, cooks, grooms, waiters, &c, 25s to 603 ; shopmen and clerks, 30s to 60s per week ; boys and girla, 6s to 10s. Mr. A. Meeoee reports as follows for the week ending November 8, 1876, retail prices only .—Fresh butter, in ± and lib prints, Is to 10*3; fresh butter, in lumpß, Is; powdered and salt butter Is 2d. The supply of fresh butter is now very plentiful, and the fall in price will make some of the duiry farmers go to cheese making. Salt butter (new season), Is per lb. Cheese, of the best quality, Is 2d ; aide and rolled bacon, lOd to lid ; Colonial hams, Is 2d to Is 3d ; English hams, Is 6d to Is 7d. Eggs, in good demand, at Is 3d per doz. MEB3ES. M. and J. Meen4.it, G-eorge Street, report the following as the latest quotations : — Flour— Large bags, £15 ; small do, £15 10s per ton. Oatmeal — £11 103 per ton. Pearl barley — £22 per ton. Bran — £5 15s per ton, including bags. Pollard— £6 10s per ton. Chaff— .£4 per ton. Hay — £4s per ton. Potatoes — £3 10s to £4> per ton. Carrots — £2 10s per ton. Wheat — 4s 6d to 6s per bushel, for good milling samples. Barley— 2a to 2s 6d per busliel. Oats— 2s to 2s 3d per bushel. Cheese— Bd to 9£d per lb.

Me. J. Vezey reports for the week ending November 8, 1876 :— Retail : Roast beef, 6d to 8d per lb. ; boiling do., 4d to 5d per lb ; stewing do., 4d to 6d per lb.; steak, 6d to 9d per lb.; mutton, 3d to 6d per lb.; veal, 4d to 8d per lb.; pork, 9d to lOd per lb.; lamb, 4s 6d and 5s per quarter.