COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 91, 15 October 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day .amounted to £3,098 7b 8d Cboskeby, Hasbll & Co. roDort sales at their rooms for the past week:— Flour, sacks, £11 to £11 10s; lOJlb bags, £11 ISs; su's, £12; oatmeal, 412; pollard, £6; bran, £4 10 a; chaff, £4 10 a; potatoes, £1 Ba to £1 10s per ton ; oats, 2s 6d to 2s ion ; ¦wheat, 4s; barley, 3s per bushel ; cheese, 44d; butter, 8d; hams and bacon, guaranteed, Od per lb; eggs, lOd per doz ; oranges, 10s to 12s; lemons, 14s|; mandarines, 11s; apples, 10s 6d per case; fowls, 4s; ducks, Ss ; turkey b, 10s per per pair. Larry & Campbell report that there was a waut of life in their maruet sale to-day. New potatoes sold at 2d, that price being obtained with much difficulty ; oggs were not much ¦ought after, and brought only 11 ji per doz ; fresh butter. 6d to 7d. the greater portion Belling at 6id ; fowls, 4s per pair ; fruit was not in much request by auction, but ia moving off satisfactorily at private sale. No alteratisu to report iv any other produce. Geobge Thomas reports prices this -week :— Oranges, 7fl Cd to 9s; mandarines, 11s; cocoanuts, 15s to 16s ; pines, 83 ; fowls, 4i ; eggs, lOd; fresh butter, 6d to 7d ; Hour (colonial), £11 10s to £12 10s ; oats, feed, 2s 5d to 2s 7d ; seed, 2a Bd to 2s 9d; bran, £4 10s; fowls' wheat, 4s (id, scarce; maize, 4s 6d. advanced in consequence of protective duty ; pollard, £6 ; potatoes, £2 5a to £2 10a; bacon, B|d and hams, lOd, guaranteed; cheoao, 4£d; salt butter, unsaleable; oatmeal, £12 10s ; Jowls' barley, 3s. All samples of fowl feed have advanced from 3d to 4<i per bushel. Fresh butter is quite unsaleable at anything like a payable price, 6d to 6£d being the highest offers.

SHARK BEPOBTS Mr. John W. Bthvknbon (member of the Wellington bharebrokoiß* Association) reports:— Balks— Colonial Bunk, 49 * ; National Bonk, 82s 9d ; NZ. Drug Co . 245 : N.Z Shippicg, £5 19 a Od ; Colonial Imsurance, 11b 3d. HtLLißS— Bank of N.X, £34 ss; National!, 83a 6d; Colonial Bauds, 49»; Colonial Insurance, 118 3d; National InBuranca, 34s 9d ; Uniou lusurance, 25s 3d ; South British, tls cum div- Standards, 17s 6d; NZ. Insurance, B3s ßd; N.Z. Shipping. £5 18i; NZ Drug Co., 245; Koranui Coal Co , 65s (SO3 paid) ; Albion Gold Wimnp Co. (Is 3d paid) sb. Buyfks —National Bank, 82s; Colonial Bank, 48s 6d; Standards, 17b; Colonial Insurance, 13a 3d. Market dull. Money— 6i to 7 per cent.