COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4437, 19 May 1877, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

The amount of revenue received at the Cri»tomtolear * d fcT tTf»day

Trade In the wholesale market has been dull throughout the past week ; although some important transactions have been effected. Althomrh brandy continues to be held firmly, a sale of 1 000 coses of Hennessy s in a single line was made at a \ery slight reduction in price. Bulk rmlises last quotations, Some extensive parcels of tea have changed hands at satisfactory prices to the importers. Stocks in first bands are, however, becoming very low, and good breaks are consequently in demand. Messrs M'Landresa, Hephnrn, and Co. offered the cargo of sugar of the Lochiel, from Mauritius, at auction yesterday notwithstanding a very poor attendance of the trade. Vo business was transacted, as evidently there waa no disposition as yet to give the price at which ths gn|us w«rs t«Mrr«d. ; Candls* coo.

tinuo firm at the late advance j kerosene remains unchanged. In the Colonial produce market butter is somewhat easier, as the supply is abundant an I It Is freely brought forward; oheese is unchanged, Of 1 to The slates from the Cfdgd Qii&tty are in great demand, ns they are coming into ektenfiiro use. All the principal buildings in the City, now in course of erection, are being covered with thvm. Messrs Wright, Ltephonson, and Co. this morning offered at auction the booths for the forthcoming races. There was a good attendance of the public, but on sfof. 1 and 2. being put up only L 3 was bid. Tkd auctioneer was then instructed te withdraw everything, and the Jookoy Club will retain all the privileges themselves. It appeared as though a combination bad been formed with a view to “ knock-out.” But if so, the schemers bit their fingers over the matter. ' The Labor Market. Mr Skene reports that,the present is the dullest and wosrt season of the. year for out-door work. There is plenty of work to be done, but men cannot get steadily at it. Every good ploughman is readily picked up, couples ate slack, coal miners in good demand, and in female servants the supply is far short of the requirements, dairy people and odd bauds are always moving, male hotel servants are rather neglected. Wages: Couples, L 65 to L 80; shepherds, L6O to L7O; ploughmen, L 52, to L 55 ; dairy people, 15s, 20s, and 25; house girls, 10s, 12s, end 15s j hotel do, 12s, IBs, 20s, and upwards; day labor, 7s, Bs, and »s; coal-miners, by the ton, 8s 6d; cooks, waiters, barmen, grooms, &0., 20s to 80s; boys and girls, 6s to 10s; bnshmen, 7s to 9s; store hands, Ac., 30s to 60s. [Br Telegram.] Stdnet, May 18.—Flour, LlB to L2O. Ne transactions in wheat, nominally 8s fid; New Zealand offering at (to, but no buyers. Barrett’s twist, Is 4dtolssd; Black Swan, la fid to Is 6sd. Othw commodities unchanged. Aucklabd, May 18.—Best flour, L 22 9s; Southern, L 18; sharps, 18 10s; bran, L 5 Bs; oats, Ss 3d; bacon, fid to 7d ; cheese, 7d. Chbistchorch. May 17.—Quotations, f.o.b. at Lyttelton;—First quality milling wheat, 6s to6a 8d; second, from 4s 9d to. 5s fid, market firm. Oats have advanced, and arq firmly held at 3s. Stocks are net heavy, the yield being considerably under expectations. Barley, 4s to 4s fid, dull; flour, LI6 to 1,17; bran, 4a lOd; sharps, 5s lOd; cheese, 7d to 8d: potatoes, L2. Wheat shipments to England and Australia are very heavy.