DUNEDIN WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1323, 7 April 1877, Page 11

DUNEDIN WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

, Flour, Ll3 10s and Ll3 ; bran, <50s; oatmeal, Ll3; pearl barley, 235; chaff, 80s ; potatoes, £5. Dried Fruits.— Currants', 5Jd; Sultana raisins, 9d; Eleines, 6|<l to 7d ; muscatels, Is 2d. ■ Ales. — Devenish's, 12s;- Tennant's, or founder's, 12s ; Arrow's, 11s ; Bass's, 12s. Porter, duty paid — Blood's, 12s Gd ; Guinness'j 12s 9d ; Pig brand, 13s. Tea, duty paid.-r-Common, la 10c! to 2s ; good medium, 2s 3d to 2s Cd ; superior kinds, 2a 9d to 3s ; boxes, 25s to 325 ; orange pekoe, 2s 9d to 3s ; gunpowder, 2s 9d to 3s. Sugar, duty paid. — Eine whites, LSI to L 53;5 3; grey crystals, L4B to L 49;4 9; yellow do, L 47 to L4B ; second yellows, £45 to £aC ; ration, L 39 to L4O • Victorian whites, LSO to £53 ; crushed loaf, 60s, m kegs. Spirits, in bond. -Brandies : Otard's, 9s 6d ; do. in .aiso, 2Ss ; Associated Vineyard, 8s and 245; ilenucssy's, 10s Cd per gal. : do in case, 35s ; Bisquit's brandy, ds and £Bs. Whisky, Glenlivet, 9a ; Hob Roy, case, 19s ; Old Highland, 10s ; Glenury, 6s Gd; Scotch and Irish, 5s to 7s ; Longjohn's in case, 18s Gd ; Hazelburu whisky, bulk, 6s. Rum, 4s Gd to ss. Lome, buls, Cs Gd ; case, IDs ; Geneva, JDKZ, per case, 13s ; Old Tom, per casr , Burnett's, 15s ; Swaino Boord's. 14s.

Kerosene.— Devoe's, 33 4d (duty paid); Diamond, S3 3d ; Noonday, 3s 4d. Caudles, lOJd to lid.

SKESE'S LABOUR EXCHANGE.

April 4th, 1877. Workinsr people have now fairly settled down to work for the winter, and it is high timu, for the holidays, &c, have seriously hindered work for a good p vrt of March. Orders are coming in fast for ploughmen, ana ail sorts suited for farms. But there are far too many totally uiHuitbd foe such hanging about. Neither farmTe nor men need dread an overstock of skilled ploughmen during the present generation. The building trade and carpenters arc well employed. There is very little life to report in the iron trade. Shepherds are out of season. Female servants for private houses and hotels are in brisk demand. Couples are too plentiful. Those without families have the best chance, but if settlers persist in preferring such, where is our supply of ploughmen and shepherds to come from? Wages :— Couples, £65, £70, and £80 ; shepherds, £60: day labour, 7s, Bs, and 93; dairy hands, *0s and 15s ; cooks, grooms, waiters, barmen, &c, 20^ 255, 30s, and up to 50s per week; hotel trills, 12:), 15s, and 203 ; house do, 10s, 12s, and 15s : storemen and clerks, 80$ to COj ; boys and girls, s*, 6s, aud 10a ;" carpenters, 10s to 13s; bushmen, 8s to ft.