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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 2 July 1887, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Eve.s-iso Pobt Orpios Saturday Afternoon The customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £2811 os7d. Beer duty, £78 11s George Thomas & Co. report produce prices :— "The latest advices (under dato 22nd June) from Sydney ie salt butter show prices without any change ; prime N.Z. was experiencing fair demand at 8)d to (id per lb, while pastry samples commanded values from 4d to 6u. The Melbourne market is in much the same condition, with the difference, however, of nn import duty of 2d per lb, against id at Bydney. Tho fact of oats becoming overstocked in Australian centres has caused prices here to iraver ; there is at present no decline, but certainly the increase in values anticipated is not an accomplished fact. Flour has n. hardening tendency, and ire hear of certain leading millers having advanced their productions to £10 lCs f.0.b. ; the majority, however, utill quote £10 ; quotations ex store at Wellington rule from £10 15s to £11. Fowl wheat is again rather scarce, and fully worth 3s 9d per bushel. Considerable business hns been transacted in potatoes, and forOamaru orKaiapoi-grown £2 10s to £2 12s 6d is readily given, while Blenheim and Kafkoura may be obtained from £2 per ton, ths quality being inferior. The following lines ore unchanged in prices and demand :— Oatmeal, £10 R« ; Tartarian seed oats, 2s 6d ; Danish do, 2s 6d ; fluke seed potatoes, £4 15s ; Derwcnt and Brown River do, £2 15s; pollard, £4 15s; bran, £A ss; beans, 3s9d; peu. 9s Bd; onions, £7 to £7 10s: tyo grass seed, 3s 0d ; cheese, 4d to Bd ; hams and bacon, fnctory cure, 7d ; fresh butter, 9d to lOd ; pggs, isOd; honey, 3d to sd; feed barley, 2s Od. Fruit has arrived in large parcels from Eobtrt and Sydney; the former maintained last realisations, but Bynney oranges reduced by quite Is 6d per case and is ruling from 6s Od to 6s ; lemons, 8s to lls ; mandarins, 8a to 12s Gd ; pines, 18s per case. Ducks are enquired for at 4s. but fowls at 2s 6d. geese 6s tid, ana turkeys 7s are all unaltered, and business in these lines exceedingly slack." SHARE REPORT Messrs Artodr TVariujrtox * Co. report for the week :— Banks— N.Z., sellers £16 ss ; Colonial, 425 ; National, 335. Insurance— N.Z. , Rollers 65s cum div; Colonial, sellers 3s 6d; Standard, sellers 108 6d. Miscellaneous— Land Mortgage, 21s ex div; N.Z. Shipping, sellers 20s ; Napier Uas, buyers £Vl 10s cum div ; Wanganui Gas, sellers £12 ; N.Z. Drug buyers IBs 3d ; 'Westport Cool, sellers 20s j Equitable Building, buyers £6 10s cum div; Wellington Gas (2Cs paid) sales 40a ; Gear Meat, sellers 738 6d buyers 70s LABOUR MARKET Messrs Edwaiidh & M'Bkatii report wages for past week as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £00; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plumbers and gtsfltters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 35s to 455 ; draymen, 42i to 50s; coielimen,3ftsto3ss; grooms, 26s to 86s ; gardeners, 6s to 8s : labour hands, 7s to gs ; farm hands, 16s to 265 ; milkmen. 15s to 255 ; botelmen, 20s to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; waitresses, 16s to 20i ; cooks, 25s to 40s ; female do, 15s to 30s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants, 10s to 14s ; nursegirls, boys, 7s to 15s. There is a decided improvement in the market since last report. Situations of all kinds have been numerous, both for tows and country