COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1149, 20 December 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

auctioneers report. Mr. George Greenfield reports that he held a sale of unredeemed ple4g€3. r n ,l „£ coM an.t «Ivcr watches. gold *n.l silver ch.iins, lockets, &C-, at his auction mart to-day. The attendance targe, and the bidtltnsf very spmtt-d though aomc of the lots offered were bought to by Mr. Moaa. H, also reports having heManfo of freehot,l ami leasehold property at. _«> clock. The attendance «» »!»'» '* r sf on . t .^" 3 sion. bttt the bid,tine lacked CfUbraithTs property, being sections 13. I I. and 9, btocfc XLV.,with seven-roomed hotuc an ,l oat-building, were passed »Yt t£t in if the vendors bid. which was L «--*>. but ihere i» every probability of their bemg A»knocked down to Mr. Martm for i-tt. THE LABOR MARKET. Mr Henry Macintosh reports lor tnc 20th December, as follows : Business has been dttll Awing the week, the moMt pttrt of it feeing taken np with country orders, female servants bang most «« demand. Men servants arc plentiful, and areonly meeting with engagement* Liwfo for town and country are m demand, and as there v» a prospect of » harvest, and the money market tm " proved, the demand for labor wrll keep on increasing. Rates of wages as per last DtTNKDIN. fBY tKtKITR-^PK.I December 19. Wheat, 4» 9't to 5» : fowls''wheat, 9d to <te; cats, 1» »d to l» tl f : barley, fe to S» »»t; 3* » fid; potatoes. L« to .}- h ; * cording to finality : new kidney potatoes. JtJ» t hay, W • chaff. l"t to LI b®: straw, L_ Sa- bran, L$ 10» ; pollard, L 5; Hour, large socks, Ltl »0» to P2: oatmeal. ML.: pearl barley, L2B ; owoos, 2., »; otd chccae. 8d: new do, 7d; bacon, rolled, 9d; prime fat beef, 30b ; mutton, 2d. AUCKLAND. fBT TSX.iCrtKAFK.I December 19I>reodstnffo are unchanged. Oats 2a 3d to 2» ed ; maize. 3* 7d to 3d 9d ; CaMorntan, 48 td to 4s 2d ; potatoes, new, ba Gd to .a Cd ; fresh and salt bwtter, 3d.