COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 11, 12 July 1890, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Bruno Poit Omoß \ Saturday Afternoon Th« Customs duties collected at the port ofwellington for ttio week ending to-day amounted to *BMO 9«Bd, Beer duty, £«6 lla \ Gioiaa Thomas ft Co. report produce prices m follows :— Enquiries are again being made for gnus, •eeda, perennial rye and cocksfoot being moat la demand. On former ruling from 4s 8d to 6a 8d per bushel, and the Utter >d to 4d per lb. Seed potatoes in In aotiro ittineat, tho Tartoua descriptions ru)logfrom£aiOs to £9 10a per ton. All otber leading Hues of grata and produce are qatte without any features of alteration. Onta rnlo f ram la 8d to la lid for feed, and 9a to 3i Id for aeed simples. Oatmeal, £0 Sa to £9 10 a; oatan sheaf duff, £8 10 a to J>4 ; straw do, £9 10 a to i.% 15s ; baled wheat straw, £8 104 ; roller flour £0 bto £9 ISa ; stone do, £8 15j to £0 ; whole fowls' wheat, 2a ltd to Ba, scarce ; broken. 3s td to 2s Id; bran, £3 Sa to 63 10b ; pollard, £8 ISs ; wheatmeal, £0 10s ; pearl barley. £17 ; feed barley, 3s 8d : seed beana, 8s lod ; feed do, Ss 7d ; bluo peaa, 8a lOd : Derwent potatoes, £3 16s to 48; onions, markot glutted, £4 to £4 10s; carrots and turnips, £3; aplit peas, £U 10a; Greytown pheese, 4jd ; hums and bacon, 7d ; honey, 4Ad ; fresh butter, lid; salt do, 7d to 8d ; eggs, la to Is Id; fowls, 3s 8d ; duaks, 8a t& ; geese, 6s ; turkeys 7s. The fruit market U but, but large supplies will arrirtfrom the frlandaand Sydney onlttonday. Applu rule from 6b to 8a 6d for good oooking N.Z. Messrs Edwards * M'Biath report wages for past weqk aa follow* :— Married couples, £70 to £80; carpenters, 10a: brioklayera, 12a; blackamiths, 0a to 10a ; painters and glaiiera, 9s ; plum»era and gaafltters, 9a to 10a ; atoremen, Sfia to 45a ; draymen, 48a to SOaf! coachmen, 30a to 86a; grooms, 96a to 86s : gsrdnera, Sa to 8a : labour hands, 7a to 8a; farm hands 16a- to 26a; milkmen, l&a to S6a; hotelmen, Ma to 40s; barmulda, 26« to 80s; waitresses, 16a to SOa : oooka. 25s to 40s ; female do, 16a to SOa; housemaids, 13a to 20a; general aenranta. 10a to 14a ; aursegiris and boys, 7a to Us. Counlry demandn hare bean numerous during the week ; town rather quiet BHARI BIFORT A»thd« Waiwortos * Co. report for the week :— Bank of N.Z., old, sales 8/s; new issuo, salea 80s; National, sellers 87s; Colonial, buyers 41s, sellers 425. Insumnoe-N.Z., sellers (8a ex ; South British aoles and sellers 97a; National, sellers 15s 9d: Union, trllers 255; Standard, IBs 6d; Colonial, baygra 6s, sellers 6a Bd. Miscellaneous-Loan and Mercantile, sellers 83a; N.Z. Bbipping, buyers 87s 6d; ■WanganuiOas.sollers £ii 2a 6<f: Drug Co., buyera 19a ; Moaglel Woollen. 80s; Westport Coal, 88a j Wellington Trtwt and Lo»n, buysis £6 7s Sd « dW ; Wellington Building, fcuyera £0 2s fld cum dir ; WalUngton Gas. buyers £14 6s oum div ; Gear Meat, buyers 96a ; Wellington Woollen, sellers 88s ; Wellington Meat Export, (60s paid) sellers 60s sum dir ; Ifanawatn Railway, 16s WEATHER FORECAST FOR 24 HOURB FBOM 9 A.M. TO-DAY Wian—Between north-west and soutb-weat at all placea northward of Napier ami Now Plymouth, and between south-east and south-west clsowhore flAionrraa— lliae ererywhere Bha— Hoary on both coasts Warninga for southerly gnles and cold weather hare been sont to all placea •YNOPBIB Or LAST 21 HOURS Blowly falling barometer everywhere, with heavy rain, at moat places southward of East Cape. Tauno jnd lUgUn to Lyttelton and Hokiiika. Snow bVs fnllon on the high ranges of Canterbury, and there hare bean f costs in Otago B. A. EDWIN.