COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 107, 7 May 1887, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Eveniho Post Ornoi Baturday Afternoon The customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the -week ending to-day amounted to £5348. Beer duty, £71 lla 3d Oeohok Thomas & Co. report produce prices :— " We have nothing to »dil to our remarks respecting rait butter, as contained in last week's report. The Sydney direct steamer, due next Thursday, should bring particulars of present state of market and we shall refer thoso interested to our report on thin head in next Saturday's issue. There is no local demand, and prices are nominal at 5d to 6(1 per lb. New cure bacon is now fairly offering at an increase of Id per lb on last season's rates ; we quote bacon 7d, hams Bi<l for best Canterbury, other descriptions remain unsaleable. Oata continue to rule ai low rates, say from Ja lid to 2s Id for really good samples; oatmeal, from £10 Ss to £l01Cs; chaff, £3 10s to £4 10s ; flour, unchanged at £10 for aacki ipollard, £4 10s ; bran, £4 ; fowls' whe t, 3s 6d to 3s 8a ; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; feed barley, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; beans, 3s 9d; peas, 3s 6d ; rye Braes, 3s 6d ; Derwent potatoes, 60s to 65s per ton, according to quality ; onions, £5 10s to £6 lOi per ton ; cheese dull at 4d to 6d per lb ; fresh butter. 7d to 8d ; rags 2s 6d per doz. The market has not been supplemented i>y a single shipment of fruit during the week; stocks, however, in retail hands remain ample, there having been quite an absence of business, owing to the extremely inclement state of the weather* and. therefore, the non-arrival of supplies has not affected market prices in the slightest degree. Largo shipments of poultry command only fair enquiry, and we repeat last week's quotations, fowls, is fld to 8s; ducks, Ss 6d; turkeys, 8s; and geese 5s per pair." SHARE REPORT Messrs Arthur "Warburton & Co. report for the week:— Banks— N.Z., £16 5a ex div; National, 335 ; Colonial, buyers 41s, sellers 4&. Insurance— N.Z., 66a 6d ; Bouth British, 255; National, buyers 13s 6d, sellers 14s cum div; Union, buyers 19s, sellers 19s 6d ; Standard, 10s 6d ; Colonial, buyers 3s, sellers 3s 6d ; N.Z., Accident, 4s. Miscellaneous— Loan and Mercantile, 775 ; Land Mortgage, sellers 21s 6d com div ; National Mortgage, sellers 16s ; N.Z. Shipping, sellers 30s ; Union Steam, £11 15s ; Mosgifl Woollen. 70s; Kaiapoi, 75s to 80s; N.Z. Drug, 15a to 16s 6d ; Napier Gas. £12 10s ; Wangariui Gas, £13 10s cum div ; Kaitangata Coal, £13 Bs ; Westport Coal. 253 ; Wellington Trust and Loan, sellers, £6 7s 6d; Equitable Building, £6 10s ; Wellington Gas, £19, £9 lCs, and 40s ; Gear Meat, buyers 75s