The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

... £92,773 011

£28,279 13 1
21,807 15 10
1,209 2 2

3,016 18 0
6,843 711

Assay-office and Gold Escort Department...
The Land Department, including improve-
ments at Port Elliot (3,2681.135. 7d.) and
1,084/. 15s. ld., on account of immigration 6,149 6 8

Total expenditure 241,289 5 8
Showing an excess of receipts over expenditure of no less
an amount than 100,1161. lls. 9d. ! This is a most
gratifying fact to record, as it exhibits in a very striking
light the complete reaction which has taken place in the
general condition of the colony, and her signal recovery
from the frightful state of paralysis under which she was
suffering this time twelvemonth, in consequence of so
large a proportion of the population employed in home
production.
The following is the official return, by the immigration
agent, of the average wages of mechanics and others, in
South Australia, for the three months ended the 31st
December, 1552:
Blacksmiths, 12s. to 14s. per day, without board and
lodging. •
Bakers, 7s. to 10s. per day, with board and lodging.
Bricklayers, 12s• per day, without board and lodging.
Bullockdrivers, 251. to 301. per annum, with board and
lodgings.
Butchers, 7s. to 9s. per day, with board and lodging.
Carpenters, 12s. per day, without board and lodging.
Cabinetmakers, 15s. per day, without board and lodging.
Carriagetnakers, 12s. to 13s. per day, without hoard and
lodging.iers . sy2
2s per day, without board and lodging.
raeste servants :
Males 451. to 501. per annum, with board and lodging.
Females 201. to 30/. per annum, with board and lodging.
Day-labourers, 6s. to 7s. per day, without board and
lodging.
Farm-servants—

Married couples, 401. to 451. per annum, with board and
lodging.
Single men, 401. to tO& per annum, with board and
lodging.
Masons 12s. to 15s. per day, without board and lodging.
Millers, 10s. to 12s. per day, without board and lodging.
Miners, 7s. to Bs. per day, without board and lodging.
Painters and Glaziers, Ss. to 10s. per day, without board
and lodging.
Plasterers, 12s. to 158. per day, without board and lodging.
Saddlers
Sawyers, 15s. per 100 feet, without board and lodging.
, Bs. to 10s. per day, without board and lodging.
Shoemakers, 14s. to 16s. per day, without board and
lodging.
She;herds, 35/. to 501. per annum, with board and
lodging.
Tailors, ls. per hour, without board and lodging.
'Wheelwrights, 12s. to 16s. per day, without board and
lodging.
Harvest-work, 7s. to Ss. per day, without board and
lodging.
The present has been one of the most delightful sum-
mers ever experienced in the colony. There has not
been any continuance of the usual summer heat. The
influenza was very prevalent fur some time in a rather
severe form, but it has nearly disappeared now. The
harvest has been well got in, and we hear no complaints
of an indifferent crop.
Intelligence has been received of the discovery of a
productive gold field in New Zealand. It is situated
in the Coromandel District of Auckland. The first
Pda' Auckland Gold Circular," by Messrs. Connell ai d
ing, under date Dec. 13, appears in the New Zea-
gold"der, and contains an account of the sale of the first
dust and gold quartz brought into Auckland.
may be interesting to the friends of the colony in
England to learn that at the sale of town lots in the out-
skirts or Melbourne some of them realised at the rate of
no leas than 2,000/. per acre.