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Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1890, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

» Bviiimo Post Omoi Saturday Afternoon Tbe Customs duties collected at the port of "Welbugton for the week endinir to-day amounted to £l!i,138 14s 4d. Beer duty, £iOl 1b Geosof. Thomab & Co. report produce prices as follows:— The Sydney market is attracting large shipments of oats, potatoen. pnllnrd, and bran, which has the effect of stiffening locnt values for the several lines. Asenta for certain brands of roller flour are unvrinely forcing their stock on the market at extremely low rates, which certainly leaves no protlt to tho owners of the respective mills. In some instances as low as £8 10s has been accepted, the ruling value, however, for such descriptions as the" Golden Gem " ii £9 Bs per ton, nt which quotation there is a rendy demand. Bran is fairly enquired (or at £3 Ills and pollard £4 per ton ; whole fowl's wheat, 2s lOd ; wheitmcal, £95n: Bbort feed oats, 2s ; Danish and Tartarian, Is lOcl to Is lid ; black do, 2s 8d ; oatmeal, £W to £10 6s ; maize, 3s Cd ; beans, 3s 6d; peas, 8s 9(1 ; pearl barley. £18 ; split peas, £16 ; feed barley, 2a 6d ; Derwent potatoes, £2 15s to £3 17s 6d ; onions, £4 10s per ton ; rye grass, 4s lOd ; cocksfoot. 3jd ; cheese, 4d to 4{d ; hams and bacon, o:d cure 7jd, new cure to Arrive next week ; eggs, 2s ; fresh butter, 6d to 7d ; salt do. 6d to 7d. Larpe shipments of Tongan oranges are selling at low rates, ray from 2s 6d to 6s per case ; Tahiti descriptions command Ts, and Sydney 6s ; lemons, 12s to 13s ; walnuts, 3jd to 4d ; chestnuts, 7d ; pie melons, £5 ; quinces. Id per lb ; apples and pears of good quality are in excellent request. Fowls, 2s 9d; ducks, 3s 6d; geese, ss: and turkeys. 7s per pair Messrs Edwards & M'Bkath report wages for past Treok as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plumbers and gasStters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 35s to 455 ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coaclunen, 30s to 355 ; grooms, 36s to 85s ; gardeners, 6s to 8s : labour hands, 7s to Bs ; farm hand., 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 16s to 255 ; hotelmen, 20s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 80s; waitresses, 15a to 20s ; cooks. 2os to 40s ; female do, 15s to 30s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants, 10s to Us ; nurscgirls and boys. 7s to 15s. There is very little improvement since last report except a greater demand for domtstic servants SBAHK RKFOBT AsTnun Warbuiitox & Co. report for the week : — Bank of N.Z., old £6 2s 6d ; Colonial, sales 41s 9d ; National, 87s. Insurance— N.Z.. 66s 6d ; South British, 27s 8(1 ; National, 17s ; Standard, ISs 6d ; Colonial, 6s 6d. Miscellaneous— Loan and Mercantile, 625; Land Mortgage, 14s ; National Mortgage. 9s 6d ; N.Z. Shipping, buyers 80s ; Union Steam, £13; Mosglel Wooll&i, 82scumdiv; Drug Co., 19s; Wfstport Coal, 50s ; Wanganui Gaa, £11 10s cum dir; Hokitika Gas, sellers £6 10s; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 10s ; Equitable Building, £7 ; Wellington Building, sellers £6 7s 6d ; Wellington Oas, buyers £14 6i and £7isßa; Gear Meat, bi.yers £5, sellers £8 2s6d; Wellington Woollen, buyers 35a; Mnnawatu Railway, buyers 16s Mr D. r. Stuart is ivlvised by wire of the following sales of mining shares in Beefton yesterday :— United Alp'ne, 26s 6d ; Globes, 21s, ex div ; Inkerman, 28s; Big River, Rs 6d