1 0 0
Breaking up stubble in corn ground, per ditto, 0 10 0
Chipping in wheat, per ditto, 0 6 0
Reaping ditto, per ditto, 0 10 0
Threshing and cleaning wheat, per bushel, 0 0 8
Holeing and planting corn, per acre, 0 5 0
Chipping and shelling corn, per ditto, 0 6 8
Pulling and husking ditto, per bushel, 0 0 4
Splitting pales, (six feet long) per hundred, 0 3 0
Ditto, (five feet long) per ditto, 0 2 6
Shingle splitting, per thousand, 0 7 6
Preparing and putting up morticed railing, five bars, with two pannels to a rod, and posts sunk two feet in the ground,0 3 0
Ditto, ditto, ditto, four bars, 0 2 6
Ditto, ditto, ditto, three bars, 0 2 0
Ditto, ditto, ditto, two bars, 0 1 9

The rates limited in this order are pretty well proportioned to the present state of the colony; but the attempt to reduce the value of labour to a permanent standard, further than regards the convicts, must evidently be abortive; since labour, like merchandize, will rise and fall with the demand which may exist for it in the market where it is disposable;—­and although the above order might prevent the labourer from recovering in the colonial courts, a greater price for his labour than is stipulated in the foregoing schedule, still the moment it becomes the interest of the employer to give higher wages, he will do so, and the discredit attached to the non-performance of a deliberate contract will always prevent him from having recourse to the courts for avoiding the fulfilment of it.  The above rates, it will be seen, only refer to the various species of labour immediately attached to agriculture.  The wages of artificers, particularly of such as are most useful in infant societies, are considerably higher:  a circumstance which is principally to be attributed to the practice of selecting from among the convicts all the best mechanics for the government works.  Carpenters, stone-masons, brick-layers, wheel and plough-wrights, black-smiths, coopers, harness-makers, sawyers, shoe-makers, cabinet-makers; and in fact all the most useful descriptions of handicrafts, are consequently in very great demand, and can easily earn from eight to ten shillings per day.

The price of land is entirely regulated by its situation and quality.  So long as four years back, a hundred and fifty acres of very indifferent ground, about thre equarters of a mile from Sydney, were sold by virtue of an execution, in lots of twelve acres each, and averaged L14 per acre.  This, however, is the highest price that has yet been given for land not situated in a town.  The general value of