COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 130, 16 October 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Evenino Post Offjck Saturday Afternoon Tho customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £3078 12i lOd. Seer duty, tea 17s 9d Okorok Tiiomai & Co. report produce prices thif week an follows :— " The market is easier for every description of grain except wheat, and the demand has slackened considerably- Supplies of ont« are far in excess of local requirements and although present quotations show no altertion, there in every prospect of a decline of a penny or so per bushel in the near future ; prices rule from 3a 6d to 2a 9d, according to quality. A considerable reduction in the ruling value of maize is imminent, aa we hear of large parcels on the water, which are for positive sale ; as the demand is limited, prices may be expected to rule from 3s 4d to 3s Od per bushel for parcels. Old potatoes are quite a glut, and sales have been effected at sporting prices. Bay from 25s to SOs per ton ; for the time of the year samples are in vrny fair condition ; we note the arrivals of first consignments of the new crop, which are selling at Sjdperlb. Onions remain scarce at £12 for good picked quality. The following lines are without alteration :— Flour, roller £12, stone process £11 10s ; fowl wheat, 4a 6d ; bran and pollard, £5 ; feed barley, 2s 9d to 3s ; pearl barley, £17 ; beanß, 4s ; Held pets, 4s Od; Prussian blues, ss; chaff, £4 10s; bams and bacon, 7d; farmers' cure, 4d to M; cheese. OJd ; freh butter, market overstocked, 4d to 8d; salt do, no sale; honey, 4d to 6d; eggs, od, with prospect of Ad per doz increase during coining we«k. Poultry— Turkeys, 9s ; ducks, 4s ; geese, 6s ; fowls, 8s 6d per pair. Bupplios of fruit havo been confined to Sydney oranges, and Fiji bananas, pines and cocoanuts, which all realised only moderate rates, the quality and condition, to a certain extent being a bar to more satisfactory results being attained." SHARE REPORT Mestra Arthur Warruiiton & Co. report for the week:— Banka-N.Z., £19 10s to £20; National, sellers, 36f; Colonial, sales 41s 6d. Insurance— N.Z., sellers 665 ; Bouth British, sales 255 ; National buyers 14s, seller* 14s 6d ; Union, 20s ; Standard, buyers 9s 9d ; Colonial, buyers 4a 3d, sellers 4s 6d ; Equitable, In Id ; N.Z. Accident, 3s to 3s Od ; Accident Association, sellers 3d. Miscellaneous— Loan and Mercantile, 85s ; Land Mortgage, buyers 20s ; National Mortgage, 17s 6d to 18s 6d ; N.Z. Shipping, 355 ; Union Steam, £12 ; Mosgitl Woollen 795; Kaiapoi, 87s 6d; N.Z. Drug, 14s 6d to 15s; Napier Gas, sellers £13; Wanganui Gas, sellers £13cumdiv; GisbornoGas, sellers 355; Wellington Trust and Loan, buyers £6 7s 6d, sellers £6 9s ; Equitable Building. £6 10s ; Northern Land and Loan, 40a to 455 ; Wellington Oas, sellers, £19 and £910*; Gear Meat, sales 70a ; Manawatu Railway, 19s to 20s LABOUR MARKET Messrs Cooper & Steward report wages as follows :— " Carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; painters and glaziers, 0s ; plumbers and gasfitters, 10s : blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; labour and pick and shovel men, 7s; draymen, 42s to SOs; coachmen, SOs to 85s; grooms, 20s to SOs; storemen, 30s to SOs; gardeners, 7s; hotelmen, 20s to 40s; cooks, 25s to 40s ; female do, 15s to 265 ; hausemaids, 12s to 18a ; general servants, 9s to 15s ; nursegirls, 6s to 10s ; barmaids, 25s to SOs; milkmen, 16s to 255; farm hands, 16s to 25s j boys, 6s to 12s ; waitresses, 15s to SOs; laundresses. £30 to £60: married couples £70 to £90. We have been very busy during the week. We have placed several shearers, musterers, and married couples, on country stations, and there is a steady demand for the above. Good general servant* are more plentiful, with a steady demand. We have several g/>od hotel servants of all classes on our books, which we can supply to town and country clients at short notice."