DUNEDIN LABOUR REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1423, 1 March 1879, Page 13

DUNEDIN LABOUR REPORTS.

February 26, 1879 Mr Skene reports still more employers than employds. Harvest is now general in the south. It is well through to the north. This week practically cuds to-day, three days being eivon up to racing and hoi Waymaking. Masons and all the building trades are very ! busy. Ordinary labourers are receiving splendid wages. Trained female servant* are scarcer than cv r Coupes and shopherds are now asked for. Tnere is a great rush for trained hotel servants— male and feuuale. Ploughmen are now wanted. There is a great demand for girls for Oamaru. Wages : Couples, £80 to £85 ; day labour, Bs, 9a, 10s, and lls : plouehmen and shepherds, £60, £65, and £70; cooks, boots, waiters, and such, 20s, 255, 30s, and 40s ; milkers, 153, 205, and 253 ; ordinary girls, 10s to 15 ; upper girls, 20a to 30s ; boya, 6s to 10s. Mrs "Wilson, Octagon, reports: Good demand for first-class servants for town and country. Best general servants, 15s to 20s ; ordinary, 10a to 16a ; housemaids, 15s to 20s ; female cooks, 20s to 40s ; male cooks, 40s to 60i ; laundresses, 20s ; barmaids, 25s to 355 ; nursegirls, 6s to 10s ; useful girls, 8s to 12s ; boots at hotels, 15s to 265 ; grooms, 16a to 255 ; ploughmen and shepherds, 25s to 30s ; station hands, 20s to 265 ; tabouret) §3 to 9» ; married oouples, £ to £90,

concerning him was that he was recognised as a stowaway on a ship bound to England. OLlVEß.— Certainly, the wire with which tha sheaves are bound by the self-binding harvesters will get into chaff if due vigilance is not exercised, just as any other aocident will happen on the farm through carelessneßS and mismanagement. A pair of nippers are supplied with the machines which hold the wire while they cut it. M. W.— Write to any Danedin Bookseller, and he will order for you, if he has not on hand, " The Young Debater," published by Houl« ston and Sons, London. This book will give you all directions as to the management of improvement Societies j also, subjects for debating on ia social economy, politics, philosophy, science, roligion, literature, and history. MECHANIC— Cast-metal tools with chilled points will cut when cast-steel tools are of no use. L. C— -The official records show that 300,000 men died on the field of battle or in hospital during the American war. This is exclusive of the men who diad at home from wounds or disease. If the reports are reliable, quite as many men have been destroyed in the HussoTurkish war; but in the latter case the carnage has been increased by the cruelty of barbarians and by religious and national hate.