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Evening Star, Issue 4955, 20 January 1879, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

The amount *f revenue rcoe ved at the Custom House on goods cleared this day tor consumption was L 2.342 16s lid. The Labor Hfttbet, Mr Skeno ‘reports for the week ending January 18 ns follows A very treat demand foreutdosr workers, and wants cannot be satisfied. Hotel hands are much needed; ploughmen and shepl-erds still very scarce, and girls scarcer than ever. • Wages : Cooks, waiters, barmen, etc., 25s to 50s; couples, L 75 to L9O ; milkers, 15s to 25s ; boys and gir’s, 6s to 10s ; ploughmen and shepherds, L6O, L 66, and L7O; onlinary girls, 10s, 12s. and 15s; upper do, 15s, 20s. i>os, and 50s; carpenters, masons, bricklayers, 11s to 16s. Sale of Property. Me srs M'Landreis, Hepburn, and Co. dhlprsed on Satu! day of the Waihola Park township. One hj andred aud forty-five quarter-acre sections were sold s*. prices ranging from L 6 to LlO ss. One hundred and iwcutvssyen and three-quarter acres of suburban Ist.ds adjoining the township were sold in lots of from 2j icres to 21 acres, and brought from L 3 to 1,4 h>h per acre. The total amount realised by the sah> was L 1,317. [Bt Telißoraph.] Auckland, January 20.—Buekland’s sheep fa’rtoday was very meagre, compared with last. year, i ier.i were about 3,000 entries. It is contended that th ! low price of wool is the reason of the present geue Til disinclination to invest in sheep. The quality o the sheep penned was first-class.