THE LABOUR MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2211, 16 July 1896, Page 15

THE LABOUR MARKET.

Mr SKEXE repoits under date July 14':~Mostly all sorts of outdoor work are at a stand. It is a &rent mistake to attempi ploughing or digging among s'ush and wet. The days are already stretching,' and work will soon be in full swing. It is bad fosin to grumble at the seasons. We- -have" no choice. Builders aye busy, and taking advantage of every fine day. A few hands are moving at tlw following rates :— Couples, £6'), £6>, and £70; ploughmen, IB", 17s (sd, and 20s ; d»iry and farm boys, Bb, 10a,' 12< 6d ; shepherds, 7iiJ ; rabbiters, all sorts of wag«B ; grooms. 12s and 15s ; gardeners, from 6s to 8?, but not brisk.

As ah instance of the manner in which a liability could be brought home to a defendant-, Mr Hall (sayn the Southland Times) quoted a case in which a person who was responsible for the keeping in. order of a fence and did not fulfil his duty was held liable for the value of a horse which escaped through that fence and made its way in'o another paddock where a baysttck fell and killed the animal.

By the .Tongariro, which left" Lyttelton on Saturday, Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., of Dunedin, forwarded 20 Lincoln ram lambs to Monte Video. The lambs were selected from the well-known flock of Mr Henvy Overton, and is the first shipment of purebred sheep to South America from New Zealand.