COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 131, 1 December 1888, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Etiui-co Post Omos Saturday Afternoon The customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-dar amounted to £17.322 19s 2d. Beer duty, £107 li Oroiioi Thoiias & Co. report produce prices as follows :— The flrmnofs in prico.-t for ftU lines which we noted last week is still maintained with even neater intensity, and oa(a from 2s 6d per buihel of n few daya buck are now strongly held for 4s 6d. Withdrawals to Australia havo been very great, and present stock in New Zealand will hardly be sufficient to supply local requirements until the advent of next season's harvest. Tho latent cable fr.ra Sydn«v reported value* a* from 4a M to 6b (duty fre\) Oatmeal it unaltered at £20; oaten sheaf chaff, £5; straw do, £3 10s : whole fowls' wheat, 4s 0d ; pollard and brau, £8 nil round ; flour (roller], £lill5); stone, £11 15s: feed barley, 8a Pd; maize, 4a 6d; beans, 4s: field peas, 3« 9d j old potatoes «ra quite out of the market ; onions, £20 per ton ; new potatoes, IJd per lb ; hams and bacon hare advanced Id per lb. and now stand *t B}d per lb, equal number*; chceso (factory) is firm at 6d per lb ; salt butter ho* enquiries from the other colonies, uid we quote 90 per lb v? the fair market value ; fresh do, (M ; lard, 4d to oil; eggs, tOJd per dozen. The enquiries for poultry have not been sustained, and tbe p>ices ruling are somewhat under the usual rotM-Fowli!,F»3dtoßs(!d; ducks, 4s; turkeys, 7s pf r ralr ; green peas. 5s to Cj per sack ; rhubarb, 5s per dozen; aspawiirus, 10s per dozen; gooseberries, 2d to Sid per quart. We anticipate the arrival of Fiji fruit on Monday next, ex Aravrata. this beloff tbe lost shipment before Clm*ttnas, the demand , should be brink and prices well sustained. I BHAKK RIPORT Arthur Waruvrtos & Co. report foi the week:— ! B»nk*-N.Z,, £8 to £8 ss; National, Ssj to 87s; Colonial, 48s <W to 445. lusurance-N.Z.,81g; Nattonal, lfl»6dto2os; Bouth Briluh, 40s; Colonial, 4«to4s6d. Miscellaneous— l/md Mortgage, 17i 6d; N.Z Snipping, dales 40* ; N.Z. Druff Co.. aOsßd: Weninsrion Qu. £1» and £9 ; Wellington Tnut and Loan, £8 10*; Gear Meat, sellers 89a LABOTJB MARKET Messrs Edwards & M'Rkatii report wages for past treek v follows :— Married couples, £70 to £80; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12»; blacksmiths, «* to 10s j painters and (rlariers. a« ; plumoera and Kasfittcrs, 98 to 10s ; storemen. 3Ss to 45e ; draymen, 42s to 50s; coachmen, 30s to SSs; grooms, 265 to 355 ; gardeners, 6s to 8b : labour hands, 7« to Bit : farm hands, 1S« to 265 ; milkmen, 16s to 265 ; hotehnen, 20a to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 80s ; waitresses, 15a to Ms : cooks. 25s to 4Os ; female do, IBs to 30s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; «enon»l servants, 10* to 14s : nursegirls, boys, 7s to 15s. Tho demand is a little less than Ust wce>, but we expect to be busy again soon