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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 314, 25 April 1879, Page 15

Mr. J. Fleming reports for the week ending April lGth, 1879 :—: — Wholesale prices, new oats. 2s 4d to 2s Gd ; old, 2s 9d to 3s per bushel ; milling wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 0d per bushel ; chicks, 2s Gd to 2s 9cl ; barley, malting, Gs to Gs 6d per bushel ; feed, 3s to 3s Gd ; pollard, £5 10s per ton; bran, £4 per ton; flour, £9 per ton; oatmeal, £16 10s per ton ; potatoes, £4 5s per ton ; hay, £4 per ton ; chaff, £4 to £4 10s per ton : straw, £2 5s per ton ; onions, 9s. Mr. Skenb reports for the week ending April 23, 1879, as follows : — Affairs are very quiet for men, but quite the reverse for women. The farmers have not begun their winter ploughing in earnest yet. Their wants and the railway extension will soon absorb a great many. Couples and shepherds are dull. The building trade is still brisk. • The weak point now is, so many rush the town for any wage— in fact for a bed and food. Eabbiters arc always on the move. Storemen and clerks dull indeed. Wages :— Cooks, men and women. 20s. to 405.; waiters, boots, &c, 205., to 305.; couples, £75 to £90; dairymen and boys, 10s to 235. ; day labour. 7s. to s)s. ; hotel girls, 13s. to 25s ; ordinary do., 10s., 12s. 155.; ploughmen and shepherds, £33, £60, £63, and £70 ; blacksmiths, 10s ; bakers, 40s and found. A writer in the Cineiunati Gazette says that 17,000,000 gallons of alcohol is annually drunk in the United States, in the shape of malt liquor.