COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1885, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

« Etmmo Post Omn. Saturday Ad ernoon. The custom! dntles collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day, amounted to £4917 5a 4d. Beer dnty, £143 7s 9d Oioiea Thomas & Co. report produce prices is follows i— •• There are no alterations of any moment to note in the lending lines, and, there* fore, last week's quotations hold good. Oats are firm and active at 2s Id to 2s 3d; potatoes also ■bow a farther upward tendency; floor, Ruaran. teed, £8 to £8 10s ; fowl's wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; onttneal, £11 ; maize, 4s to 4s 3d ; barley, 2a 3d to 2s 6d ; beans, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; chaff, £4 ; kydney, androuud white seed potatoes, £3 10s; turnip*, from 80s ; fresh batter, Is Id to Is 3d ; hams and (moon, BJd to 9d; cheese (scarce), BJd ; eggs, first class demand at l<ttd per doz ; lard, 6|d ; honey, Bd. Owing to shipments of fruit being of a limited number, ire are now glad to report that stocks h»TB greatly reduced, and prices are altetdy showing considerable improvement. Shiptnents of oranges, ex Hanroto, fonnd ready sale at 7s 6d to 8s per case, the market being now quite bare j Hobort eating and cooking apples Juat to hand, are being quitted at prices v*rying from 8s to 9s per case. Poultry, firm at following ratesFowls, 4s; dnoks, 41 6 d; turkeys, 10s to 18s per palt" seam uroais. Hossrs Arthur Warbnrton * Co. report for the week:— SAisa-Bank of KZ, £U 10s; Land Mortgage, 85s; South Brltith Insurance, 48s; Colonial Insurance 6s fid. Quotahohs : Banks— tH.Z.,£2lloato£ill2e6d} Colonial, 43a 6d. In. Buranoe— N.Z., 765; South British, 48s to 60s; National, 20s to 20s Cd; Union, 84s; Standard, XSs; Colonial. 6s 6d; Kquitable, Is 4d i N.Z. Accident, 4a 8d; Accident Association, 2s. Miscellaneous—Loan mid Mercantile, £5; Land Mortgage, 25s to 35s 6d; National Mortgage, 245; N.Z. Shipping, sellers, 655; Union Steam, £12; Moeriol Woollen, 84s 6d ; Kaiapoi, £25155t0£2«; N Z Brag, 17* 6d to 18s ; Napier Qas, £13 ex dir; Westport Coal 16s 6d j Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 Is: Equitable Building, £6 2s; Wellington Gas, buyers £18 ; Oear Meat, buyers 755, sellers 80s ; Manawatn Railway, par LIBODB UAMtXT. Mestos Cooper k France report M follows:— "Carpenters, 10s t Dricklayers, 12s; painters and glaxiers, 9s to 10s: plumbers and gtafitters, 10s ; blaoksmiths, 9s to 10s ; labour and pick and shovol men, 7s to 9s ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coaohmen, 30s to 3ss; grooms, 20s to 4os; storemen, SOato 50s; gardeners, 7s; hotelmen, 20s to 40s; cooks, fca to 60s; female do, 15s to 30s ; housemaids, 10s to 20s; general servants, 9s to 15s; nunegirls, 3a to 10s; barmaids, 25s to 30s; milkmen, 15t to 255 ; farm hands, 15s to 255 ; boys Ss to 12s; waitresses, 15s to 20s; laundresses, £30 to £30; married couples, £70 to £90. We have been very bnsy durlnr the week both with male and femalo servants. The demand for farm hands has had a downward tendency, only a few ploughmen and milk hands finding situations. We still have a few first-class men and lads left on oar books. Cooks {male and female) are plentiful. We have placed some very Kpod general servants (they ore getting more plentiful.) Town and country employers can be supplied on the shortest notice with first-class servants"