COMMERCIAL.
Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon 'Ihe Guatoma duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week endingto-day.amounted w o £2,748 5b 9J Cbobkkbt, Habell & Co. report sales ba their rooms this week:— Flour, sacks, £10 to £10 10b: lCOlb ba»s, £11 ; £ob, £11 6b; pollard, £4 10s; bran, £3 10s; otitmsal, £11 per toa; oata, 2n; wheat, 3b; barley, 3s; maize, 3a 3d per bushel; eges, Is 6d per doz; bains aud bacon, 9d per lb ; ohlote. 4d to 4jd per lb ; apples, 4* to ss ; pears, 10b 0d: plunu, »s 6d; peaches, 10b per case; lowls, 4s ; geese, 8s 6d J ; turkeys, lOfl per pair. Laeby cc Campbklij report :— .Peaches, 7s 6d to 6b case ; pears, 6s to 5s 6i half case ; dainsone, 6» 6d half ou.ee ; quinces, Cs 6d cuse; apples, Cs to 6s;. eggs, 2a 3d. There were.. enquiries for freßh butter J>ntf it had not arrived ill t r m« tor sale. - Fdwla UvGO-f ducks, 4a; salt butter selling alowjy at 6 1 to 7d, but must be very prime ; hams and bacon in cloth, 9i t > 9jd ; cheese, 4Ja to sd, but sales very limited for botb. Theie has been a slightly increased demand for potatoes at 553, Backs it eluded. ODioi s are ttill unaaleabla hi any quantities. No quotable alteration in other produce.
SHAKE BEPOBT Mesars Btbvenbon & &wi*h report :— Bai»bb— Kempthorau'a Drug Co., 2ls ; Standard Inanrauce, 10s. BDTEBS-Bank of «.Z , £22 15s to £23 ; Colonial Bank, 4-ti ; Colonial Insurance lls 9d; Union Insurance, 20s Cd ; btandarJ, 0a; Houth British, 575; Keujptborne'B Co., 21s; Napier Gas, £ 13 ; N.Z Acoident, 3s. Sellebs— National Insurance. 30b; Soutb British, 60s. We quo iB -N.Z lußur.ince,73s; N Z. Hhippinit, £5; N Z Loan & Mercantile, £5 lOtt: National Bank, (Ms ; Colonial bank Ha tki ; N.Z Accident Insurance Co., 3a to 3s 3d. Bank of N.Z quoted in Melbourne— Buyers, £23 105 ; selleis, £n S3.
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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 65, 19 March 1881, Page 2
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317COMMERCIAL. Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 65, 19 March 1881, Page 2
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