LABOUR REPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1805, 31 January 1884, Page 2

LABOUR REPORT.

Messrs R. M. JiKitJiirox and Co., 177, Queen-street, Auckland, report:—Business has been brisk m genera!, but still there is great demand for experienced men and women servants. We have some few good situations open, which we hope to fill dining the present week. Several good farm hands and others refuse to take di&t.int situations out of Auckland on account of having to pay their own fai c. Although we cannot altogether blame employers for not advancing the passage money, ab many unprincipled men and women servants have taken advantage of employers. Engagements as follows :—Farm hands, 20t> to 25s and found; managers for farms or stations, £150 and free house; bush hands, Gs to 8-.per day; .married couples, £75 to £80 and found ; milkers, 10a to 20*,; general servants, 8s to 14s; housekeepers, 15s to 25s ; cooks, 12s to 25s ; nursegirls, 5s to 8s ; and others at current wages. We ha\e waiting employment : Grooms and gardeners, station hands, bushmen, waiters, hotelmen, labourers, married couples, and many others.

[Received January 29th, 10.5 p.m.] LONDON M VUKKTS. London, January 28.— Consols remain at 101 \. New Zealand securities are as follow — 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 10."» ; 5 per cent. ISSO loan, lO3i ; 4* percent. 1879-1904 ]o»n, 101^ ; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100. The market for colonial w heat is quieter but steady. Adelaide, e\ htoie, remain" at 445, and New Zealand wheat at 3(is to 425. Adelaide flour, e\ warehouse, is 31s. T-il-low is dull. Australian beef, of fair average quality, is 30s Gd. Australian mutton, 42s Cd. The wool market is .steadier. The new arrivals to date for the ne\t auctions amount to 1(50,000 bales.