COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 97, 22 October 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

? Evening Pe6T Office, Saturday Afternoon

The Customs duties collocted at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day .amounted to £2,007 19s 5.1 Ono&KERY, HABELI, & Co. report Bales at their rooms for the past week:— Flour, sacks, £11 10s; loiilb bags, £11 ISs; su's, £12; oatmeal, £12; pollard, £5 10s; chaff, £4 10s; potatoes, old, £1 to 41 10 a per ton ; oats, 2a 3d to 2s 8 1 ; wheat, 4s ; barley, 3s ; maize, 4s Cd per bushel ; cheese, 4d to HA ', hams and bacon, 7d ; fresh butter, 7d per lb ; «ggs, lOd to lid per doz; fowls, 4s to 4s 6d; dnoks,sg6dto6g per pair. Their sale ot 1700 Backß oats on Monday was well attended, tbe whole parcel being sold at 2s for large quantities and 2b Id for small lots. George Thomas reports prices this week :— Flour (colonial). £11 15b to £12 10s; oats, feed 2a 6d to 2s 8d; seed, 2a 9d to 2a lOd; bran, £4 10a bags returned; fowls' wheat, 4a 6d, scarce; maize, 4s 6d ; pollard, £6 ; potatoes, £2 5s per ton for good samples; bacon, 8d; hams, lud; oheose, 4£d; ealwbutter, unsaleable; oatmeal, £12 10s; rhubarb, ss per doz; eggs, lOdtolOid; frosh butter, 3d to 4d ; new potatoes (boxeß, bags and sacks) lid to lid, and difficult to quit; fowls barley, 3b. IiAKBY & Uakpbell report that their market sale went off well to-day, the bidding being brisk throughout. All the fresh butter was placed at 6d; eggs, contrary to expectation, have declined in price, lOd being obtained but with difficulty; fowls, 4s per pair; bacon, 6jd per lb ; the new potatoes were withdrawn, but are selling pretty freely by private Bale at Ijd perlb; honey, sjd to Bd, jars and kega charged extra; cheese still remains without enquiry; several parcels of old potatoes have been placed during the past day or two, ex store, at much better prices, and for small lots of four or five tons are still likely to improve in price.