The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-12 00:00:00

THE LABOUR MARKET.

Migration from this province (Adelaide) towards the
gold fields of Victoria hai recommenced. Up to the
Present time, however, the departures have not so
greatly outnumbered the arrivals as to occasion any se-
rious suspension of the ordinary industrial occupations.
No public works and very few private undertakings are
in hand, on account of the anticipated desertions. Ne-
vertheless, labour of all sorts is exceedingly scarce, and
wages very high. Shearing has generally commenced in
the pastoral districts : most of the sheep owners having
been able to procure a sufficient number of hands to
make a commencement. The price given for shearing is
30s. per 100 with rations. According to present appear-
ances the shearing will be a very protracted one,
and the shipments of wool late in the season.
The greatest difficulties and annoyance are experienced
by the masters of vessels in procuring crews for any port
except Melbourne. The rate offering for the run to
England is 751., and men not to be obtained.
The prospects of grain crops all over the colony were
never better than at present.
The following are the prices asked and obtained :
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Blacksmiths,-10s. to 12s. per day.
Bakers, 21. 10s. to 31. per week, with board and lodg-
ing.
Bullock-drivers, 251. to 301. per year, ditto.
Butchers, 21. to 31. per week. ditto.
Carpenters, 10s. to 12s. per day.
Cabinet-makers, 10s. to 12s. per day.
Carriage-makers, 10s. to 12s. per day.
Coopers, Bs. to 14s. per day.
Domestic Servants—Males, 401. to 501. per year, with
board and lodging.
Females, 181. to 251. per year,
with board and lodging.
Day Labourers, 6s to 7s per day.
Farm Servants—Married couples, 451. to 601. per year,
with board and lodging.
Single men, 401. to 501. per year,
with board and lodging.
Masons, 12s to 15s per day.
Millers, lOs to 12s per day.
Painters and Glaziers, 7s to 8s per day.
Plasterers, 12s to 15S per day.
Sawyers—deals 15s per 100 feet, cedar and hardwood,
21s per 100 feet.
Saddlers, lOs to 14s per day.
Shoemakers, 14s to 16s per day.
Shepherds, 401 to 451. per year, with rations.
Tailors, 8d per hour.
Tanners, lOs to 12s per day.
Wheelwrights, 10s to 12s per day.
Watchmakers and Jewellers, 20s per day.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.
DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE CRAWFORD.—We announce,
with feelings of deep regret, the death of an estimable
and upright judge, in the person of Mr. Justice Craw-
ford, who has occupied the position of Second Judge of
the Supreme Court of this province (Adelaide), for about
two years. Judge Crawford presided over the sittings
of the Supreme Court in June last, and was then re-
marked to be suffering from ill health, although not so
severely as to cause any alarm to his friends. He bore
his illness with the fortitude of a Christian, retained his
consciousness almost to the last moments of existence,
and died, surrounded by his family and Mends, yesterday
morning at half-past 12 o'clock.—South Australian Re-
gister, Sept. 25.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.—Mr.
Kingston's motion for the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee to prepare an address to her Majesty on the mode
in which the Land Fund of the colony is administered,
was superseded by an amendment, moved by Mr.
Neales, to the effect that a Select Committee should be
appointed to prepare an address to the Queen, praying
her Majesty to issue directions to the ColoniSation Com-
missioners, to the effect that in future they are to re-
ceive direct instructions from the Governor of South
Australia, acting with the advice and consent of the
Local Legislature, as to the proper description of emi-
grants, and the mode of forwarding them to the colony
at the expense of the Land Fund, and to render an 'ac-
count of the expenditure. The remainder of the day
was devoted to the District Councils Bill in Committee.
GOVERNMENT ASSAY-OFFICE.—VaIue of the deposits
of crude gold, at 31. 11s. per ounce, from the 10th Feb-
ruary to the Ist October inclusive, is 1,146,651/. 4s. 9d.
The deliveries of gold ingots to the several banks and
otherwise, from the 10th February to the Ist October
inclusive, present a total of 276,150 ozs. 9 dwts. 16. grs.
EMlGRATlON.—Considerable amounts of gold have
been remitted to England and Ireland from colonists
here, to enable their relatives to join them in this coun-
try. The gold is therefore doing some good in some
people's minds.
ANOTHER LINE OF STEAMERS TO AUSTRALIA.—ThS
steam ship Java was expected to arrive in Adelaide from
Batavia when the Australian left. This vessel is the
first of a line of steam vessels from Batavia for the
Sound, Adelaide, and Melbourne, intended to be laid on
by the Dutch East India Steam Company.
EFFECT OF THE GOLD DISCOVERIES.---The following
is an extract from a speeoh made by Mr. Darya% a mem-
ber of the Sydney Legislative Council, in the course of a
debate on the moral, social, and scientific effects of the
gold discoveries :—" Soon would the curse of all other
gold countries be in full force in Australia ; we must look
to other countries for our food, our clothes, and every
necessary of life. Prosperity was not truly here ; the
gold had certainly made a few persons rich, and what was
the result? Look at the streets of Sydney, once so famed for
peace and good order, but where the most disgraceful scenes
of vice and drunkenness were now enacted daily. Amongst
women the propensity for drink was fearfully on the in-
crease ; left by their husbands, who sent them down sums
they were quite unaccustomed to possess, they actually
do not know what to do with their money, and they
spent it in the most reckless and profligate manner. This
was no exaggerated picture of the result of the golden
discoveries, and very deeply did he grieve at having to
paint it." In fact, the orators were so frightened by
their own voices, that one of them rejoiced that Victoria
had obtained a participation in the " curse" that had
fallen on Australia. Gold has undoubtedly produced its
difficulties, but these exaggerated alarms are simply
ludicrous.