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in weekly wages ; the net decrease in districts in which 

 changes took place being 9§d. per head per week as com- 

 pared with 1894. Calculated on the total number of agri- 

 tural labourers in England and Wales, the fall per head 

 amounts to fd. per week. It thus appears that the move- 

 ment of agricultural labourers' wages in 1894-5 was very 

 •similar in character, extent, and amount of change to that 

 recorded for 1893-4. 



Considering the different districts of England, no less than 

 77 per cent, of all the labourers affected by a change in 

 wages lived in the Midland and Eastern Counties, the great 

 majority of the remainder being in the Southern and Western 

 'Counties. It has not been found possible to estimate accu- 

 rately the number of men affected by a change in Wales, but, 

 on the whole, the tendency in the Principality would appear 

 to have been towards a rise. In Scotland the changes said 

 to have taken place are too unimportant to materially affect 

 the wages of any particular class. Generally speaking, the 

 wages of the men who remained in the same situations were 

 practically stationary, while some of those changing their 

 places received slightly reduced wages. There was fre- 

 quently an upward tendency in the wages of women in Scot- 

 land. Xo material changes are reported from Ireland. 



^Criminal Code, Canada (Gambling in Prices). H. C. 135. 

 Price \d. 



This Return contains the following sections of the Canada 

 Criminal Code of 1892, which came into operation in March, 

 1893, prohibiting- gambling in prices: — 



201. Everyone is guilty of an indictable offence, and liable 

 to five years' imprisonment, and to a fine of five hundred 

 .dollars, who, with the intent to make gain or profit by the 

 rise or fall in price of any stock of any incorporated or 

 .unincorporated company or undertaking, either in Canada 

 or elsewhere, or of any goods, wares, or merchandise : (a) 

 without the bond fide intention of acquiring any such shares, 

 goods, wares, or merchandise, or of selling the same, as the 

 case may be, makes or signs, or authorises to be made or 

 signed, any contract or agreement, oral or written, purporting 



