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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 129, 1 June 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

• Eviniho Post Owqr Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £5378 18s Od. Beer duty, £(>i 8n 3d Gkoucjk Tiioxas & Co. report produce prices as follows :— A further reduction in flour, of 10s per ton, is notified this week, bringing values down to £10 and MIO 15s respectively for stone and roller process. Values for other lines continue firm, and ¦wo quote :— Bran, £6 ; pollard, £5 15b ; fowls' wheat 3a Od to 3s lOd for whole, and % 6d for broken wimples; wheatmeal, £10 15s ; Canadian oats, 3j; Tartarian and Dnnish do, 2s lOd ; oatmeal, £14 lO.s to £15; oaten sheaf chaff, £i 10-*; straw do, £2 las to £8 ; feed barley, Us to 3s 6d ; pearl barley, 19s 10s; feed peas. 3s Oil ; split pens. £15 : mai/n. 4s ; beans, 4s ; Oarnnru potatoes, £4 10s ; Blenlicua do, £3 10h ; Kaikoum do, £3 6s ; onions, eearcej £1 J 10s. There is no demand for salt butter, which is nominally ¦worth 8d ; fresh butter commands enquiry nt lOd to Ildperlb; chpese i« dull, the market being fully supplied at 4jd to s\d ; hamt and bacon, lp.idmtr brands Bd, second do 4d to 6d ; eggi, Js 3d, which is a slight decline ; honey, 3jd to 5d ; lard, 4d, in bladders. Poultry lias some signs of improvement, und we quote fowls 2s 9d, ducks 83, turkeys, 7s. and geese, 6s per pair. The arrivals of fruit have been unimportant, principally from provincial centres The following ih a summary of cargo shipped from New Zealand per lonic on Thursday :— For London —1105} bales wool, 74'J do flnx, 93 (lo sheepskins, 26 do rabbitskins, 33 do leather and basils, 8 casks tallow. 118 do pelts, 14,251 carcases frozen mutton, 248S do lamb, 3012 legs and 39 pieces mutton, 1810 qrs und pieceH frozen beef, 3901 eases preserved meats. .f!X) do and b.igs antimony, 28 dedicated cocoanut, 1 bag cocoanuts, 82 pkgs : for Rio— loo sacks oats, S cnues Messrs Edwards & M'Bkath report wages for past weok as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, Bs to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plumpers and Rtteflttprs, Sis to 10s ; ntoremen, 35b to 455 ; dniymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s tv ses ; grooms, 26s to 355 ; gardeners, 6s to 8s : labour hands, 7s to 8s ; farm hands, 16s to 265 ; milkmen, l&s to 255 ; botelmen, 20s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 30s; waitresses, 16s to 20s j cooks, 25s to '10s ; female do, l&s to 30s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants, 10s to 14s ; nursegirls and boys, 7s to 15s. There has been no change since hist report SHARE REPORT Arthur Wariiurton 4 Co. report for the week: — Bank of N.Z., (old issue, buyers) £8, (new issue, sellers) £8 ; National, sellers 375 ; Colonial, 43s 6d to 4 Is. Insurance— South British, 3!)s to 40s ; National 38s to 183 6d ; Union, 26s 6d ; Standard, 14s ; Colonml. 4s Bd. Miscellaneous -Loan and Mercantile, 63a to fifla ; Land Mortgage, lfls fid ; National Mortfpwe, l*i to 12s fid ; N.Z. Shipping, buyers 00s ; xxmon Steam, sellers £12 ; Moagiel Woollen, 76s to 775; Kniapoi, 60s ; N.Z. Drug. 20s ; Wanganui Gas Bales £11; Wellington Gas (£lO paid) sales £16; AVellington Trust and Loan, £6 9s to £6 10s ; Equitable Building, £7 ; "Wellington Building and Investment, £6 to £6 Vs 6d; Gear Meat, 81s cum div: Hanawatu Railway, buyers 10s 6d