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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1887, Page 2

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Evexi.vo Post Omen Saturday Afternoon The customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £6106 Is 9d. Beer duty, £101 10s 9d Ukokcie Thomas & Co. report produce prices :— " Tho oat market is fnirly active, a good demand existing for descriptions of setd, for which from 2s to 2s 3d is quoted ; common to good feed are plentiful nt Is lOd to 2s Id per bushel ; shipments to Sydney have been almostsuspended, in consequence of recent returns proving so unsatisfactory. Oatmeal, the wintor being over, has only limited enquiry nt £9 Ks to £10; oaten straw chaff, 60s to 70s ; sheaf do, £1 6s to £4 10s. Flour remains as last quoted, JEIO to £10 Gs for stone nnd £10 10s to £10 16s for roller process; stocks in millers' hands are heavy, and a reduction of 10s per ton would cause no surprise. Bran is weak at £3 15s to £4 ; pollard, for which there is no stable demand, rules from £ I 5s to £4 10 a: maize has steady business at 3s 8d to Ss 10a ; and the samo remarks apply to feed tarjey, 2s Od to 2s lOd; beans, 8s 1 lOd; peas, as 9d; rye grass seed, Ss 8d; cooksfoot, lid; fluke potatoes, which'nre scarce. £5 10s ; pearl barley, £19 ; fowls' wheat, best 3s lOd ; second quality, 3s 6d to 3s 7d. Large consignments of Derwent table potatoes haw been landed from southern ports with, instructions to close immediately.. but the market being «> overstocked it has been found necessary to store i»nd await n more favour bio opportunity for clearance, if such is obtainable, which we doubt. The colony is being relieved of stocks of cheese by large shipments per direct steamers to London ; we still quote 4d per lb as fair value in the market. Salt bntter is quite unsaleable, and we note a reduction of 3d per lb in fresh do, bcing-nowrmsteady at 9d ; ogga, command OJd to lOd per doz. Bydney f n it by the Hauroto arrived in bad ord«r, consequent upon being-stowed below deck, and shipments were cleared at buyers' prices, ruling, from Is 6d to <s fid per ease for oranges, lemons and mandarins. Poultry is unaltered, fowls ruling at Bs, duoki 4s 6d, geese 7s and turkeys 7s 6d per pair." j" ' ' SHABJS BIPOBT Messrs Artiiuh Wamiitiitov & Co. report for the Week:— Banks— N.Z., sales £16; National, 335; CMonial, 42s 6d. Insnmnce-N.Z.,7056d; South British, 80s to 325; Union, 21s 6d to 22b ; National, 16s to 16s 6d ; Standard, sellers 12s 6d ; Colonial, 5a 2d ; N.Z. Accident, 4b 6d. Miscellaneous-Loan and Mercantile, 6fe : Land Mortgage, 21s 6d ; National Mortgage, sellers 7s 6d ; Union Steam, £11 ex div; Mosgfel Woollen, buyer* 70e: Kaiapoi, 72s 6rt: N.Z,Drug, 18s; Napier Gas, £1« 10s; Wanganul Gas, sollers £12; Kaitangata Coal, £15 10s cum dlv ; Weatport Coal. 90s Bd. call paid ; Wellington Trust and Loan, sales £6 6s ; Equitable Building, seller* £6 lOi ; Wellington Gas (VOs paid) sellers 4& 6d ; Gear Meat, sellers 73s 6d ; Manawutu Hailway, bcllers 17s LABOUR MARKET Messrs Edwards & M'Bkath report wages for past week as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £00; carpenters, 10s; bricklayer*, 12s; blacksmiths, 0« to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plurabqrsnndgasßtters, 0s to 10s ; storemen, 3ss to 4ss ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 355 ; grooms, 35a to -ififl ; gardeners, 6b to 8s : labour hands, 7s to 8a ; furm hands, 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 16s to 255 ; aotelmen, 20s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 80s; waitresses, 15ii to 20s ; cooks. 25s to 40s ; female do, 15a to 30s; housemaids, lis to 20a; general servants, 10s to Hs ; nursegirls, boys. 7s to 15s. We have been \ery busy again this week. Situations have been plentiful, especially in the country. Servants of all classes have been asked for, male and femato.