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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 59, 12 March 1881, Page 2

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Evenino Post Office, Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties ooUeoted at the port of Wellingtonfor the week endingto-day .amounted fc o 43.020 7« lid Oboskebt, Hasbll & Co. report; sales in their rooms this week:— Flour, saoks, £10 10s to £11 ; 1001b bags, £11 7s Cd ; £-> b, £11 15s ; oatmeal, £10 10s ; pollard, £4 10s ; bran, £3 10s ; potatoes, £2 10s per toa ; oats, 1b lOd to 2a; wheat, 3s ; maize, 3s 3d ; barley, 3s per bashe? ; cheeto, 4d to fd ; bams and bacon, 9d per lb ; egga, Is 5d per doz ; apples, 4i to 6s; peaches, Cc: pears, 9s; quinces, 7s per case; fowls, 4s; turkeys, 10s; geese, Bs per pair. Liakbt & Campbell report:— Apple?, 4s CJ to 6s ; pears and plums, soarce, a small lot to-day brought 6s 6d to 11b 6d per half-case respectively; pouches, 6a to 9s. according to condition ; freeh butter, in lump. 6jd to Bd, in 7ib tins. 7d ; salt butter, 6d to 7d; eggs. Is 7d to Is 9d ; ducks, 4s 3d to 4s 6d; geese, 3s Od es.eh; cheese, very small business doing, 4d to 4 Jd ; hams and bacon 7d to 8d; potatoes remain unsaleable, the Si me remark applying to onions; the best prices ob- - t&ined at auotion for potatoes 255, and onions, 4s ; no alteration to report in other produce. BTTA^Hi) BEPOBT Uetsrs Stevenson & Smith report :— Bales— Standard Insurance, 9s; Colonial Bank, 44s 3d. BrjißßS— Bank of N.Z , £-22 105; Colonial Bank, 445; Colonial Insurance, Us 6d; National InBOieuace, 2756 d; Union Insurance, 20s; Standard 9s. BELLEBB— National Insurance, 30s; South British, 60s: Albion Gold Mining, 2a 6d. We qtjoiss— NZ. Bhipping, 100 a; National Bank, 64a; Standard Insurance, 9a; N.Z. Insurance, 71s. Market very dull.