COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 83, 9 April 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties oollected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day .amounted to £5,186 8a 6d . Gboskbry, Hashlii & Co. report sales in their rooms this week:— Flour, sacks, £10 to £10 10a ; 1001b bagß, £11 ; 50's, £11 sb; pollard, £4 10s; oatmeal, £10 10 a; bran, £3; cnaff, £4 10a to £5; potatoes, £2 10s per ton; oats, 2s; wheat, 3a; Barley, 2s Gd; maize, 2s 9d to 33 per bushel; hams and bacon, 7d; cheete, 4d to 4jd per lb ; apploa, 5a 8d to 7b 6d ; quinces, 6s 6d to as ; pears, 8s to 10s ; damsonß, 5s 6d per cat>e ; fowls, 4b ; ducks, 4s 6d; geese, 8s; turkeys, 10s per pair; 100.000 feet sawn timber at fair prices. At their yards, Jobneonville, there was a fair snpply of atock, TTbioh brought satisfactory prices— oows, £3 10 ato £11; ateers, £3 to £4 ; boraes, £4 5s to £7 10s ; pigß, 3d to 4d per lb ; sows, in pig, 40a to 60s. jJabbt & Campbell report that they had a good supply of Hobart fruit in their rooms today, but buyers were wanting, and while the trade was largely represented, they showed no inclination to buy; a pretty brisk busiueßß, however, act in ufter the aale. There was no fresh butter, eggs, or poultry, alt Hough a good supply of eaoh was on its way, the steamers being detained, and had they arrived in time, good pricea would have been realised, as then* •were many enquiries. No alteration to report in other produce.