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THE COLONY IN 1866.
175

"WITHOUT RATIONS.

Blacksmiths, £4 to £4 10s. per week.
Carpenters, 12s. to 15s. per day.
Masons, 14s. to 15s. per day.
Bricklayers, 14s. to 15s. per day.
Plasterers, 14s. to 15s, per day.
Quarrymen, 10s. to 14s. per day.
Labourers, 10s. per day.
Able pick and shovel men for roads, 10s. to 10s. 6d. per day, tent accommodation.
Stonebreakers, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per yard.
Compositors, 1s. 4d. per thousand.
Pressmen, £4 to £5 per week.

"FEMALE DOMESTICS.

Thorough-servants, £30 per year.
Housemaids, £25 to £30 per year.
Laundresses, £35 per year.
Cooks, £35 to £40 per year.
Nursemaids, £18 to £30 per year.
Needlewomen, £30 per year.

"James Warman,
"Victoria Labour Market,
"22, Little Collins-street, West.

"1st July, 1856."




We also insert an account of a new institute formed in Melbourne:—


"VICTORIAN GYMNASTIC INSTITUTE.

"The opening of the Victorian Gymnastic Institute, which has so suddenly risen into being, took