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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 111, 11 May 1889, Page 2

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Btenixo Post Orrics Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port of Wei lington for tha week endinor to-day amounted t< /8095 6a lid. Beer duty, £1 IS 5s 6d Okoiios Thomas & Co. report produce prices n: follows : Trade, for the opening of what may bi termed a winter month, as far as produce is con ce r ned, is very quiet, no speculative busimess beiuf indulged in. wo quote roller flour £11 10s to £i: 15a; itonedo, £10to£1010s; pollard. £6 lss; brai £4 15s to £5 ; wheat meal, £11 ; wholo fowls' wheat 3» lOd to 4s ; broken samples, 3a 6d to 8s 8d ; oats 2s lid to 8s ; oaten nheaf chaff, £4 10s ; straw do, £8 oatmeal, £14 10a to £15; feed barley, 8s; maize, 4s beans, 4a; peas, 3s 9d; potatoes, £4; onions nominally worth £12 ; pearl barley, £19 ; split peas 14s tid; hams and bacon, 8d; cheese, 4}d t< 5Ad ; salt butter, 3d ; fresh do, Od ; eggs, 2s per doz No arrivals in quantity of fruit are to he reported Apples and pears require to improve on present rates before shippers see any inducement to toiicti the market. Applet) rule from 6s Gd to 7s 8d ; pears &) to 11h ; oranges, Island). 8s ; lemons, 12n ; walnuts, 7d ; chestnuts, lid per Ib. Poultry continues dull at tho old figures— fowls, 2s lid; ducks, 3s j geese, 5s 6d ; turkeys, 6s 6d per pair Mr F. H. Wood reports :— The usual fortnightlj stock sale, was held at tho Taratahi yards on Thursday, considerably more stock being yarded than wut advertised. The average quality of sheep was good, for although there were no particularly heuvj weights, there were at tho same time no culls. The greater proportion of sheep were wethers, and prices on the whole showed an improvement on those realized at the last sale. Limbs brought from 4s 10dto6s6d; store wethers, 7s lod to 8s; fatwetherr 8s 8d to 9s Id ; breediug ewes, 0i to 7s lOd ; fatewb 8a ; store ewei, 3s 6d to Ss. There were only a tev cattle yarded, and they sold at low prices. Hovoes sold at from £6 to £8 5s Hears Edwaiidb & M'Biatii report wages fo past week as follows :— • Married couples, £70 t< £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; black ■miths, 9s to 10s j painters and glaziers, 9s ; plum Ders and gasfltters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 35s to 45s draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 355 ; grooms 85s to 355 ; gardeners, 6s to 8s ; labour hands, 7s U 6s : farm hands, 16s to 255 ; milkmen, 16s to 25s hotelmen, 208 to 40s ; barmaids, 25n to 30s ; wait lessen, 15s to 20s : cooks, 35s to 40s ; female do, 16, to 30i; housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants 10s to 14s ; nursegirls and boys, 7s to 15s. Then is a slight improvement since last report, mostly foi country servants SHARK REPORT Author Wabbubton & Co. report for the week: - Sank of N.Z., £8 to £8 2s ; National, 375 ; Colonial 4256dt04356d. Insurance— N.Z., 76s; Southßiitisl 40s to 41s ; National, 18s 6d to IDs ; Union, buyeri 26s ; Standard. seUers 14b ; Colonial, 4s ; Accident 7s6d. Miscellaneous— Loan and Mercantile), 68s Land Mortgage, salea 16s 6d ; National Mortgage I2stol2sßd; N.Z. Shipping, sellers 655; Mosgie Woollen, 795; Kniapoi, 60s cum div; N.Z. Drug 20s ; Wanganui Oos, sellers £12 10s cum div ; Wei lington Trust and Loan, buyers £6 9s ; EquitabV Building, £6 17s 6d ; Wellington Building and In vestment, £6 ; Wellington Oas, £17, £8 10s and £2 Gear Meat, sales and buyers, Bla