Wages paid per month to employés in Government departmeuts, &c.-Continued. One of the present officers is in receipt of $835.92 per annum, and rises by annual increments of $29.16 to $884.52. The postmen (including auxiliaries) are supplied with uniform clothing free. .do. do per annum.. per week. do. .do. NOTE. The salaries of the officers of the customs are the same for each class at all ports in the United Kingdom, London and Liverpool excepted; at some ports there are principal clerks and instructors, but there are none at this port, Newport. Post-office and telegraphs.-Recapitulation. Postmaster.. Subpostmasters and town receivers Clerks, telegraphists, and medical officers Sorters, stampers, messengers, and town postmen, rural postmen, and allowances to postmasters for delivery, &c Rent. Incidental expenses, including allowance for office expenses. Total.... $1,778 76 2,692 44 5, 618 16 14, 273 82 486 00 505 44 25, 354 62 This amount (£5,217 in English currency) is that which appears in the estimates (official) revenue departments for the year ending March 31, 1885, as the total sum required for the post-office establish ment at Newport for the year 1884-85, two-thirds of which is the proportion provided for in the tele. graph estimates (telegraph service). 945 Wages paid the trades and laborers in Government employ in telegraph construction and maintenance in Newport. Occupations. GENERAL TRADES-ENGLAND AND WALES. Statement showing the average weekly wages paid to the general trades in the several consulates in England and Wales, and the total average for all England and Wales. [Compiled at the consulate-general's from the reports of the several consuls.] Leeds. Liverpool. London. Manchester. Newcastle. Nottingham. Plymouth. Sheffield. Tunstall. Cardiff. England and Average for Wales. SCOTLAND. DUNDEE. REPORT BY CONSUL WELLS. I have now the honor to reply to your "labor circular," dated Fe ary 15, 1884, and I do so in the order suggested therein, viz: MALE LABOR. 1. THE RATES OF WAGES PAID TO LABORERS OF EVERY CLA These details will be seen from the following forms which ac panied said circular. The rates of wages have been calculated on basis of $4.86 per £1 sterling, as directed. GENERAL TRADES. Wages paid the general trades per week of undernoted hours in the consular district of Du |