COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1225, 20 March 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE LABOR MARKET. Mr. Henry Macintosh reports for the week ending 19th March, aa follows: There is a healthy and steady demand for all classes of labor during the week, but still the supply is greatry in excess of the demand, more especially in men. Married couples are plentiful; shepherds, married or single, cooks (male or female), fencers, storemen, clerks, bookkeepers, managers for station or farm, hotel hands, good experienced house servants, are scarce; and, also nurse girls. DUNEDIN. Fbt telegraph.] March 19. Wheat, 4s to 4s 4d; fowls' wheat, 3a to 3a' 3d; oats, Is 4d to Is 7d; barley, 4s to 4s 6d ; feed, 2s fid to 3s; potatoes, L 3 to LIT ss; old haj,L4; jtew oaten hay, L 3 ss; chaff, L 3 10s; straw, L2; bran, L 4 : pollard, L 5; flour, large sacks, Lll to LI.I IGs; oatmeal, Lll 10s; pearl barley, L 2 2; onions, 7s; new cheese, SI to 6d ; bacon, rolled, lOd; do, sides, lid ; hams, Is. Hama and bacon are just now scarce in the market. Pnmc fafc beef, 24a; mutton, l^d. AUCKLAND. [BT TELEGRAPH.J March 19. Country trade is a little brisker, but local Business is dull. In breadstuffs there is no alteration. Oats are' overstocked with heavy arrivals, and offered at Is 9d to Is lOd; T"-*'™ is out of first hands; sound Fijian, 3a 24. American bacon and hams sold at 9d to Is ; potatoes, 60s; butter, salt, lOd to lid. , AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. [bt cable.] Stdset. March 19. Hennes3y r 3 brandy, bulk, quarters, lis 3d to lis 6d; kerosene, diamond, 13 3d; do, DevoeV, 13 9sd; Patna rice, LIS); New Zealand oats, &to2s 4d per 401 be; maize, Is 6d to 2s 3d per 60lbs ; candles, D.R.J.S., 7d to TJd. Adelaide, March 19. Wheat, 4s 7d; flour, country, LlO 5s to LIQ 7s 6d, market dull; freights, 52s 6d to 555.