HOUSEHOLD WAGES IN TOWNS AND CITIES. Wages paid per month to household servants in the island of Malta, without food. Wages paid per week of sixty hours in dry goods and general merchandise stores, wholesale and retail, to males and females, in the island of Malta. The higher rate only paid to those who can cut and superintend the work of cutting and fitting. A Maltese dressmaker earns $2.50 for the same work that an American dressmaker would charge from $7 to $15 for, doing the work at her own home. The largest establishment in the city of Valletta. RAILWAY EMPLOYÉS. Wages paid per day, week, or month, as it may be, to railway employés (those engaged about stations as well as those engaged on the engines and cars, linemen, railroad laborers, &c.) in the island of Malta. * With the exception of one station the booking is done by the station master. Wages paid per day for Maltese laborers employed from 1881 to 1883 in the construction of the Malta Railway (71⁄2 miles in length). There being no United States consul in Tunis, I venture to insert the wages paid railway employés in that regency, as follows: Wages paid per day to railway employés in the regency of Tunis, in Africa. Wages paid per week of sixty hours in foundries, machine shops, and iron works, in the SHIP-YARDS AND SHIP-BUILDING. Wages paid per day of ten hours in ship-yards, distinguishing between iron and wood shipbuilding, in the island of Malta. Wages paid per month to seamen (officers and men), distinguishing between ocean, coast, and river navigation and between sail and steam, in the island of Malta. And 2 per cent. on all gross freights and one-half gratifications. + Coast trade, shares from half the whole profit on freight payable at the termination of the voyage, as follows: Master, 2 shares and percentage on freight; officers, 1 shares; seamen, 1 share. CIVIL ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Wages paid per week of fifty-four hours in winter and sixty hours in summer to the employés of the street department in the city of Valletta, island of Malta. |