COMMEECIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 156, 31 December 1887, Page 2

COMMEECIAL.

Evenixo Post Omoi Saturday Af ternoon _ The customs duties collected at the port of "Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £3857 2ii Bd. Beer duty, £135 lla tod GtEonac Thomas & Co. report produce price* as follows :— Owing to the holidays, business during the week has been exceedingly quiet, and there is little alteration on last week's prices. We quote flour from £3 10s to £10 10s per ton ; pollard, £3 15s and bran £3 10s per ton; fowls' wheat, plentifully supplied and ruling from Ss 6d per bushel ; there is •very little enquiry for oats, at short milling 2s to 2s 3d. and common to fair feed Is 9d to 2s ; oatmeal is unaltered at J59 5s to £9 10a ; oaten straw chaff, £3 to £3 ss ; sheaves, £4 to £4 5s per ton : barley, Ss to Bs_2d ; beans. 3s lOd to 4s ; maize, 4s to 4s 3d respectively ; old potatoes continue scarce, and met ready sale at £2 16s per ton for good quality ; onions are rather plentiful, and little demand at £9 10s to £10 per ton ; new cheese, 4d to 4J ; old do, 2d per lb ; hams and bacon, bare Bd, clothed BAd ; fanners' cure, 2d to 4d ; new potatoes are plentiful at 5s to 6s 6d : green peas, 4s to 4s 6d per sack ; rhubarb, 4s per do* ; eggs, la to la Id per. Realisations at auction yesterday— Melbourne Florence cherrie3 (of which there were only a few cases), 20s per j-case ; Ollean plums, 10s 6d ; cherry plums, 6s 6d to 7s 6d per A-case. There was a brisk demand for Bydney oranges at 15s to 18s per case; lemons, 10s; pears, 14s to 16s per case ; American apples, 16s to 20s : Sydney do, 12s to 14s. Poultry— There has been little doing this week, and we give last week's nuo-UUons-fowls 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; ducks, 3s 6d to 4a ; geese, 6s 6d to 6s ; and turkeys, 7s 6d to 8s 6d per pair SHARE REPORT Messrs Anrnua Waihtorton & Co. report for the ■week :— Banks— N.Z., sellers £12 10s; Colonial, buyers 48s, sellers 435 ; National. 84s to 365. Insu-ranoe-N.Z.,sellers £3 10s cum div; South British, tellers 85s ; National, sellers 17s 6d ; Union, buyera 28s, sellers 28a 6d cum div ; Standard, sellers 13s ; Colonial, buyers 4s 6d, sellers 4s lOd. Miscellaneous — Loau and Mercantile, 60s to 635? Land Mortgage. Bellera 21s 6d ; National Mortgage, 6s ; Union Steam, £ll j Mnsgiel Woollen, 70s; Ifaiapoi, 60sN.Z. Drug, 17s 6d to 18s 6d ; Kaitangata Coal, £16 JOs: Westport Coal, S9s; Wanganui Gas, £12; Wellington Trust and Loan, £8 6s; Equitable Building, £6 10s; Wellington Gas, sellers £19, £9 10s and £2 ; Gear Meat, sellers 70s cum dir LABOUR MABKET Messrs Edwards & M'Beath report wages for past week as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10a ; painters and glaziers. 9s ; plumcers ana gasfltters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 35s to 455 ; i draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 80s to 355 ; grooms, 25s to 85s : gardeners, 6s to 8a : labour hnnds 7s to 8s; farm hands, IBs to 255; milkmen, 15s tn 25shotelmen, 20s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 80s; waitresses, 15s to 20a ; cooks, 25s to 40s ; female do, 15s to 30s ; housemaids, 12s to 20s ; general servants, 10s to 14s ; nurscgirls, boys, 7s to 15s. The market it quieter than at lost report, still there has been a fair demand for servants, both for town and country