COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 32, 7 February 1891, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

•z— » iTHixo Fon Orsuox Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to f6IWSsUd. Beer duty, £263 12s M Gtonoi Thoiias & Co. report produce prices as follows :— Quotations for oats ace nattered, and rule at Is lOd to 2s; oatmeal, £9 10 a; oaten sheaf chaff. £8 5s t» £3 10a ; straw do, £2 15s ; roller flour £10 10s to £11, stone do £S 10s to £9 155; bran, 6os; pollard, 70s; whole fowls' wheat, 3s lOd to 3s lid: broken do, 8s to 8s 8d; wheatmeal, £10 10j; feed barley, 2s ii to 3s 6d ; paarl barley, £16 ; blue peas, 8* lOd ; split peas, £16 ; maize. 8s 9d to »« 11 ; potatoes, kidneys, £8 6s, round and Derwent samples £3 ; onions, £6 1C" to £6 15s ; hams and bacon, 6}d to7d; eggs, scarce at Is SB per doz; cheese, 4{d to 4Ad for ordinary sizes, 6U for loaves ; honey, 4d to 4Jd ; fresh butter, 7d to 8d ; salt do, dull at 6d. Poultry has not come to hand in great quantities and late rate* are fully maintained ; fowls command 8s ; ducki, 4s ; geese, 5s 6d ; turkeys, 7s per pair. Tho fruit market has been fully stocked, and prices for all descriptions are on a muah lower basis than when last quoting. Oranges average. 12s : lemons, 7a; plums. 4s to 6s; Rages, 6s; apples, 9s to 6a; apiiooU, 6s to 9s; peaohe«, 7s to Bs. Very low values are apparent of pines and passion fruit, and results show heavy lois s to shippers Messrs Edwabds ft M'Bcatb report wages for past week, as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £00; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 13s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters and glailers, lot ; plumoers aad gasfltters, 9s to 10s ; atoremen, 4-is to 60s ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 80s to Ssb; grooms, 25s to 86s ; gardeaers, 6s to 8s ; labour bands, 7s to 8s : farm hand'j, 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 16s to 265 ; hotelmen, 3os to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 80s; waitresses, 16s to 30s ; cooks, 35s to 40s ; female do, 15s to 80s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants* 10s to 14s ; nursegirls and boys, 7a to 15s. The mat-, ket is quiet