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Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 138, 13 June 1891, Page 2

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Evenino Post Office, Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at tlieportof Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £3959 6s 7d. Beer duty, £184 17s Qr.OROX Thomas & Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows :— The wookhaa been a quiet oue, with no features of clinnge in any line. Values for oftti continue to remain low, and prices here rule from Is 9d to 2a per bushel for feed to prime seed samples.' Sheaf chaff is abundantly supplied from USs to 759 per ton for good samples ; straw do 555 ; oatmeal is in fair request at £9 5s to £9 10s ; flour li unn at £12 to £12 15s for roller, and £11 to £11 5a for atone process ; whole fowls' wheat of prime quality is hard to piok up, and late quotations, say from 8s 9d to 3s lOd, are strongly maintained ; feed barley, !>■ 3d to 2s 6d ; pollard. 955 ; bran, 75s to 80s ; mtvize, 3* scl to 3s 3s 8d ; blue peas, 3s 9d ; split peas, £U 10s ; pearl barley, £15. The auf.nran demand lor grass seed is now over, and nothing will again be done in thiß line till the spring. Prime table potatoes ore very plentiful, and rule from 40s per ton ; onions ore briskly en(mired for at £5 to £5 10s per ton ; bacon and hams (Canterbury factory cure), 6Jd; cheese, 4Jd te 4|d; fresh butter, 8d; fresh eggs. Is 9d to 2s Halt butter is still dull of sale at 6d to 7d, Tho fruit market is well supplied with oranges, lemons and other N.S.W. fruit, but the enquiries for npples and pears are very strong, high prices being paid for the small lots to hand. Poultry is dull of sale ; fowls 2s 6d ; geese, ss ; turkeys, 6s ; ducks, 3s 6d per pair. Fungus is not in great request at ajdperlb Messrs Edwards Jfc M'Beath report wages for this week as follows :— Married couples, £70 to £90 ; carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; black- ■ smiths, 9s t-> 10»; pointers and glaziers, 10s; / plumbers and gasflttera, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 42s to UOs ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 355 ; grooms, 25s to 35s ; gardeners, 6s to 8s ; farm hands, 15s to 25*; milkmen, 25s to S!7s; hotel men, 20s to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; waitresses, 15s to 20s ; cooks, 25s to 40s ; female do, 25s to 355 ; housemaids, lit to 20s ; general servants, 10s to Us ; nursegirla and boys, 7s to 13s. Country servants nre still in demand (male nud female) BHABE BEPORT. SHAKE MARKET. Saturday, Juuo 13th, 10.30 n.m. The undermentioned sharebrokers report on the share market as follows :— Last

Tmebridße & BeioU ' Mackinnon & Trinstham J. Dransfleld R. C. Shearman & Co. Horcourt * Co. D. T. Stuart Messrs Arthur Warburtoh & Co. report :— Banks— New Zealand (old), buyers, £5 12s Od ; now (buyers), £8 Us 6d ; National (sellers), 39s 6d ; Colonial (buyers), £ii 3s. Insurance — Kew Zealand (buyers), 72s 6d cum div ; South British (bnjers), 80s ; National (buyers), 16s 9d j sellers, 17s ; Union (buyers), 27s fid ; sellers, 28s cum div ; Standard (sellers), 14s 9d. Miscellaneous— Loan nad Mercantile (sellers), 655 ; buyers, 63s 6d ; National Mortgage (buyers), 10s 9d; sellers, 11s ; Elver Plate (sales), 10s 3d and 10s 6d ; buyers, 10s 6.1 ; sellers, lls ; Kaiapoi Woollen (buyers), £3 7s ♦id; Wellington Trust and loan. £6 155; Wellington Building, £0 15s ; Gear Moat, £5 12s 6d ex iv ; MannwAln Bailwnj (sellers), 20s,— Advt

isuyeis. LOCAI— £ ». d. VWtWoollen ... — Wsl't Gas — rnißt & loan ... 015 0 Eqmt. Build'g ... 7 2 6 WeVtßuilOing ... « 14 0 \V*MBailwaj ... 0 19 0 Bear Meat (ex) ...5 9 0 &r«atExp't{£spa.i * is o „ „ \£3pa.) - „ „(3i'6tHl.) - Basis— N.Z. (old) — „ (new) — National — Colonial 2 2 9 aeiiers. £ b. a. a i:i o IS 15 0 10 0 2 15 6 8 ■-> 8 1 19 0 £ s. d. 2 12 6 15 10 0 4 16 0 1 1 0 5 12 0 New Zealand ... 3 12 0 National — Union 17 0 SoutU British ... 111 0 Standard — 3 13 6 0 16 9 OU 9 0 16 9 SIISCBLLiNEOUS— Loan&HeromUle 3 3 0 N.Z. EiTer Plate... — National Mortgage 010 9 tf.Z. Shippinff ... i 0 0 Kniapoi Woollen... 3 G C 3 i 0 0 10 6 4 5 0 0 10 6 0 10 8