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Evening Star, Issue 5762, 27 August 1881, Page 2

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The amount of rovenuo received at the Custom* boose on goods cleared to-day for consumption was L 633 193 7d. , ~. Business for the week has been exceedingly quiet in the import market. No change in prices has taken place since our last. Up to date 8,500 shares in the proposed Oamaru Wotllon Factory Company have been taken up. Mr J. T. Watson and Mr J. W. Gage report the receipt of a telegram fiotu Reefton that the return of the Welcome » omoany was 828 <z of amalgam from about ninety tons of stone. Mr T. Hunter received a similar telegram. ...... A Coristci.U'ch telegram says that the gram market there is still hardening. Wheat is now quoted at 43 4d to 4s 0 1 . and only a few parcels sold. Best milling oats, 2a id. The Labor Market Mr Skene reports that the demand for all suitable for country work Is still improving. It is now a serious matter to keep up a supply of female servants. Business men will not move till September. Tradesmen are fairly busy. Wages: Day labor, 6s, 7s, and 8s; bushmen, 7s and 8s; milkers, 10s, 12s, 15s, and 20s; shepherds, LOO and LOS; ploughmen, L 52; couples, LCS to L 75 ; cooks, boots, waiter?, barmen, etc., 15s, 20s, SOs; and top-men 40s to 60s ; female cooks, 208 to 40s ; barmaids and housekeepers, 15s, 20s, 255, and 80s; governesses, L 52 to LBO ; girls and message boys, 53 to 10s; carpenters, 8s to 10s ; masons, plasterers, and bricklayers about l-’a ; station ccoks and bakers, 20s, 255, and SOs ; station smiths and carpenters, 26s and SOs ; storemen for country, SOs to 50s ; ord> n ‘J. v girls for town hotels, stations, and farms, 10s, 128, and 15»; rations added for country.

LAND SALES. Mr Montagu Pym offered for sale by auction this ulterooon, at his rooms, thirty-nine sections in South Dunedin, being allotments in a subdivision of part of block 12, and having frontages to Fox, Vogel, and Gisborne roads. There was a large attendance and spirited bidding, and the whole of the sections offered •were dlsptsed of. The following is a list of the purchases;— Section. Purchaser. Price. I James Wad A4l £ Patrick Hoars 36 3 Do 4 ' Johnßirrott 6 John Teimau .33 6 John Sinclair 30 7 Thomas Fitts 35 8 Thomas Rill 3;> v) W. S. Aitken 30 S-0 G. Marlow 36 11 John Murchey S’J VI -t K. Anpl-hy W James Small -j3 14 Joicph Henry 3 1 !■> Margaret (true 3S Pi David Burke 38 17 Henry Cl esn 36 15 William Wardrop 36 If) A Tillman 3t 20 Bridget Kennedy .‘U 21 John O’G mnor SC 21 Thomas Pitts 33 G In venality 35 2i Henry Waugh 40 25 William A. Rose *7 D; Do 31 >27 Vo CO 28 W. H. Quick CO v.) Dj 30 20 Do 50 SI John Barry 37 S3 Do 37 33 Do 37 St Edward Connors 87 85 Do 37 36 A. Bennet f3 33 Martin Prarce 10$ S3 Do 305 40 Nell Shaw 115 fßr TkLEORApn,] Adelaide, August 26 —Wheat quoted la-day 5 1 to 5s 6d. The tone of the market is firm. Town Hour, Ll2 15t’, country brands, Lll 5r to LI2. Freights: London steamers, 455 ; ditto sailing, 42s 61— Aimist 27 ; Wheat remains Arm at 5s 8d to 5j 6<l; town Hour quoted at Ll2 5s to Lll 10s, and country brands at Lll IQs to Lll 15s Havblock, August 58.—The Wakamarina Sluicing Company’s claim was offered at auction yesterday end waa sold this morning by the trustees to Mr Stephen Hutchison, of Jhmedin, for L 750, the rcecrvo price.