LABOUR MARKET.—OCTOBER 25,1882.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 498, 27 October 1882, Page 13

LABOUR MARKET.— OCTOBER 25, 1882.

GBA.NT AND Co., Universal Labour Exchange, report for the week ending Thursday, October 27th, as follows :— Business has not been so brisk this week, and the demand for labour has eased considerably, the stormy and very unseasonable weather retarding preparations for the shearing season, together with the dark prospects of failure in crops and grass which threaten the farmers from the effects of the bad season, grub in their wheat, etc., causing tham to curtail their expenses aod do with as few hauda as possible: — these reasons, coupled with a disinclination on the part of the employers to accede to the high rates of wages demanded by servants, have tended to cause the market to be very flat and wages, therefore! con* siderably lower. The only exception to these remarks are domestics for country farms, stations, etc. Wages : Couples, £63 to £70 ; shepherds, £60 to £65 ; ploughmen, £52 to £55 ; gardeners, £65 per annum and found. Musterers, 40s ; useful hands, farms, stations, 153, 20s -, milkers, 22s 6d ; boys, 59, 10s ; grooms, 20s ; station cooks and bakers, 255, 30s ; hotelmen, barmen, waiters, boots, kitchenmen, 15s, 30s ; cooks, 30s, 40s per week and found. Draymen, road, rail, and bush, 6s, 7s ; tunnel men, quarry men, Bs, 9s. Tradesmen busy, wages satisfactory. Domestic*, hotels, 12s, 15s, 20a ; barmaid*, 20*, 30s ; cooks, 20s, 403 per week ; farms, stations, private, £30 to £62 per annum.

Mr. T. Katterfeldt, watchmaker and jeweller, George street, Dunpdin, das continually on band a fine stock of w»tcoes, clocks, and jewellery, which he offers to his customers and the public gene* rally at very reasonable prices. The share list of the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand will close on the first of November. Applications will be received at any branch of the Colonial Bank throughout the colony, and should be made without delay. .. . r . ( . M _^ M