COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 85, 8 October 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon

The Casto id s duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day, amounted to £4,541 16a (M OnosKERY, Habelilj & Co. re nort sales at their rooms for tbe past week:— Fiour, sacks, £11 to £11 10s; 10 lb bngs, £11 15=i; Gu'a, £12; oatmeal, £12; p«llar<l,£6; bran, £4 10 a; chaff, £4 per ton ; oats, 2a 6d to 2a 10H ; wheat, 4a ; barli-y, 3a per bushel; cheese, 4jd; fresh butter, 8d; hams and bacon. 9d per lb ; oranges, 0a to 10b ; apples, 10b 6d; mandarines, 12a Cd; lemons, 13s; pat-sion fruit, 22a per case ; fowls, 4% to 4a 6d ; turkeys, 10s per pair. Tlit ir oattle sales at the Hutt and Johnsonville on Wednesday and Thursday were fairly attended, and prices on the whole were satiufactory. Hortes brought from £4 to £10; oows, £3 to £7 ; calves, £1 to £1 10s ; pigs, 10s to £3. IiAERY & Camfbell report business at their ' market sale moderately brisk There was no ' fruit left for sale, the demand for the coast bsing so great that it was nearly all Bold out. Ab anticipated, butter suffered a fun her decline to-day, the price realised being Gd for the bulk, and a veiy superior lot bronght 7d ; cg s 's have been in better request and brought Is per doz; fowls selling at 48 per pair; ha'i>s and bacon are very alow of sale at Gd to 7d; cheese is plentiful without alteration ; potatoes in stock are getting low, consequently for sound potatoes in stoic better prices are demanded. la other produce bo little ib doiug that quotations would only tODd to misl ad shippers. Tfiere was a good attendance at Messrs. T. Kennedy maodonald & Co.'s land sole yesterday, when several properties were offered. '1 he following is the result of the sale of the Bubdivision ot Town Acre 754:— Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, having a frontage in all of 13tift 9in, were sold to Mr. O. W. Clayton for £3 15 a per foot— £376 le3d. Lotß 6 and 7, having a frontage in all of 64ft to Hanson-street, sold to Mr O, vV. Clayt n at £2 5s per foot— £l44 Lot 7, having a frontage to Hanson-Btreet, with brick house ore cted thereon, Bold to dr. O. U. Graham for £200 Lot 8, hn ving a frontage to Hanson-street, with brick bouse thereon, sold to Mr. O. C. Graham for £175. Lot 9, section having a frontage to Adelaide Road, with shop and two houses, sold to Mr, O. O. " Graham for £275 Total ea'es, £1170 Is 3d. Tbe houie at Vogeltown was withdrawn at £275, aud tbe leasehold at the Hutt wai also withdrawn, aa no bid waß made. Mr Macdonald, at the end of the sale, announced that next Friday he hoped to have a big catalogue of goods to offer.

SHARE REPORTB Mr. John W. Stevenson (member of the Wellington Sharebrokers' Association) reports MS follows:— Sales— National Bank, 839; Colonial Bank, 50a; Union Insurance, 25* ; Colonial, 14s to 143 l£d ; Standards, 17s ; Drug Co , 245 ; N.Z ghippiug, £5 18s to £6 ; Golden Eagle Gold Mining Co., Ld., 10a. Buyers- Bank Of N.Z. £24 2a Od ; National Bank, 82s 6d ; Colonial Bank, 493 ; Colonial Insurance, 148; National, 34s Cd ; Union, 24s 9d ; Standards, 10s 9d ; N Z Accidents. 3d 4d ; South British, 635. Sellers— Bank of NZ , £24 Ci; National Bank, 83s: Colonial Bank, 60a; Colonial Insurance, 14s 3d; National, 3^B; NZ Insurance, 63s Gd ; South British, oss; Standard, 17a 3d ; Unions, 25a 3d ; Equitable Building £5 7s ; Wellington Trußfc and Loan, £5 12s 6d; NZ i Accidents, 8s 9 1 ; NZ. Shipping, £6 ; Albion Gold Minioß Co. (Is paid) 4s to 68. Monet— 6£ to 7 per oent.