Daily Evening Star

The Labor Market at Australia.—The Australian papers contain a very interesting document, a Price Current of Labor, published by a Mr. Fitchett, of the Victoria Register Office. Of course the prices are bona fide ones, because Mr. Fitchett is prepared to engage servants at the amount he mentions. Married couples, as house servants for country hotels, &c., can have engagements at £65 to £70 per annum, with rations; shepherds, £38; hut-keepers, £30; bullock-drivers, £50, or by the week, £1 10 and on the roads from £3 to £4; farm servants, £50 per annum, and £1 10 by the week; bush carpenters, £2 per week; cooks for inns, £1 10 to £2 per week; general servants, £40 per annum, all including rations. Maid servants can have engagements at £24 to £30, housemaids at £23, nurse-maids £17, cooks and laundresses £24, including rations. This was the state of the labor market after the arrival of several emigrant vessels, and, though it may experience a temporary decline in the course of the next twelve months, prices are expected to "hold," and a rise is even expected at no distant period.