COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1890, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

• Evisduo Port Onriois Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £MlO 19s fid. Beer duty, £11!) 18a Giorob Tiiokas & Co. report produce prices as ■follows :— Thero ia somo activity in oats, in conseqtieoca of Sydney advices repottiup a demand caused by the damtifjo to maize cropß by recent floods. Until further reports reach m farmers nra inclined to hoH. Grass soeda still maintain last week's demand at increased rates. Pollard ond oran (ire. also ia requisition for winter feed. Other lines are dull at late values We quote roller flour £9 to £0 Ss ; stone do. £8 to £8 5s ; bran, £3 10s ; pollard, JBS 15a; wheatmeal, £9; oato, Is 10a to 2a ; black Tartarian, 2s 4d to 2s fid ; ontmcil, £io to £10 10s ; sheaf chuff, £3 15s to £4 ; straw do, 55s to «!0s ; maize, 8s 9d ; feed barley, 2a 8d ; peas, 8s fld ; beanu, 8s 8d; pearl barley, £18; split peas, £15; Berwent potatoes. £2 IBs to £3 ; white samples, £2 10s ; omous, £4 lCs to £5 ; cheese, BJd U> fid per lb ; jn&ras and bicon. 7ja ; salt butter, 7d ; fresh do, 7d to 8d ; honey, 4 Jd ; eggs. Is 2d per doz ; rye grass, <4sftdto ss; cocksfoot, 3d to 4d; Italian lye. 5«. The fruit market is filled to overflowing with oranges, bananes, apples and pears, and prices are very low, apples especially ruling at unsatisfactory rates. Fowls ate still 2s 6d ; ducks, Ss Od ; turkeys 8s ; and geese, 5s 6d per pair Messrs Edwaiids & M'Bbatb report wages for past week as follows :— Mnrried couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plumoers and gasQtters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 85s to 455 ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 80s to 355 ; grooms, 36a to Sss ; gardeners, 6s to 8s : labour hands, 7b to Ss : farm hand'j, 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 15s to 255 ; hotelmen, 20s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 80s; waitcotses, 16s to 20s ; cooks. 25a to 40s ; female do, Iss to 80s ; housemaids, 12s to 20s ; general servants, 10s to 14s ; nursegirls and boys, 7s to 15s. The market is still very quiet SHARK REPORT Airman Wabbobtoh Si Co. report for the week :— Bank of N.Z., old issue 90s to 95a ; now issue, 80s to «ss; National, 375; Colonial, 43s Gd to 41s cum. Insurance— N.Z., 84s to Cos; National, sales 17s; Standard, ISs 6d to 14s; Union, sellers 26s 6d; Colonial, 6s. Miscellaneous— Loan and Mercantile, 65 s ; Land Mortgage, 16s ; National Mortgage, lls ; Waniranui Gis. £11 10s ; Gisborne Gas, 20s ; Mosfriel Woollen, 80s; Kaiapoi, 50s to 55a; Drug Co., •20s enm dlv; Kaitangata Coal, buyers £14 15s; Westport Coal, buyers 495 ; Wellington Trust and .Loan, buyers £6 10s ; Equitable Building, buyers £7 ; Wellington Buildin?, buyers £6 7s 6d ; Wellington Gas (£lO paid) buyers £14; Wellington Woollen, 40s to 425 ; Gear Meat, sales £5, sellers £5 2s 8d ; Wellington Meat Kxport (£5 paid), sellers £il7s6d; Manawatu Eailwny, 14s