COMMERCIAL.
Daily Times Office, Friday evening. Tbe amount of Customs Revenue received to-day on goods entered for consumption was £966 0s 6d * gold £195 0s 6d.
THE LABOUR MARKET.
lit Skknb reports for the week ending September A continued briskness is observable in the demand ; indeed it could not be otherwise with the exceptionally
Seile^rSwag^rm-. cooks and bakers, ploughmen, dairy people, female se?vants forhotels, farms, stations, and private houses are all needed daily. The building trade ,ur very bnsU although wages are a good deal cut down. This, of course alfecfe materially the timber trade, giving a spurtto bushwork and sawmills. It is useless to quote shopmen and clerks at present. They can bo got at any price. Wages otherwise are steady.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 5798, 18 September 1880, Page 2
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122COMMERCIAL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 5798, 18 September 1880, Page 2
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