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Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 2

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Evf.xiko Post Offici, Saturday Afternoon Tlie Customs duties collected nt tho port of tVelliiHffcnn for the week ending to-day amounted to £4801 Os 4d. Beer. £ISG Is 9(1 Gnoaflis Thomas & Co. report wholesalo prodmco prices 09 follows — The firmness in potatoen is maintained, and wo hare to note a further advanco of fully £l por ton ; the latest Sydney advices by n.inroto report nn active market there nt £8 per ton, with exceedingly small stocks; this, no clonbt. in a gre-it mcnsnrc nccounts for the sudden ami quite unexpected me which haft taken place iv this colony's [trowing centres. Oats aro held iv the hands of n few qouthei n speculators, nnd continne to slowly advance; the qnirtity for ilisrnbntion fall* for short of the stocks held nt this time last; year, and wo look for the presont with increased rateH to rule throughout the l»iliaee of the season. Fowl's wheat of good whole ir»in is searr'. nrdtho same remarks npl»lv to prime samplos of onions and factory cheese. We qnote rollor II mr nt £3 to £S 10s ; storm pin. c-"H>, £7 lEs; bran,7()n; pollard, 755 ; whole fowls' what. 2a Oil ; primo short r.ats. 2s Cd to 2s 7id; lons feel, is 3d t■29 M ; blnck, nun nnd seed TirUrs. 2s 7d to 2s 8,1 : oaten sbcnf ohnff, SOs to 9}i: oatmeil, £11 to£ll 10«; pearl birley, 19* ; Kplifcpeas, lls 6d ; beans. 3s Gl ; hlue liens, 3s 9d ; miize. 4s ; feed hnrley, 2s Gd; prime Df-rwrnt fc.Ve potatoes, £5 5s to £i 10a ; onions, £7 10d ; seert potatoes hi c moving off at £6 to £8 per ton, nccordiug to d<pcnpf ion. There is no deinnud for grass seeds; prime ficttry cheese, ssd; Cnntorkii v horns and b^con, 7Jd to Sd ; fresh ojtffs, Is Cd to Is 3d; prcservcl do, practically unsaleable; pnmo cream sspirator bnlter, Is to Is Id ; dairy, 7d. 8d and 9.1. Poultry is in excellent request as follows— fnw's, Ss 3d to Sh Gd ; dncks. 43 t<> 4s Gd : eee*o ss : tnrkevß. 6a to Ss per pair The demand for biniuas exhibited a nn'ipoib'e improvement on last month's s lies, and values were from 2s to 4s for decent si7ed bunches : Sydney hints wero also in nnr r.ived ieqne«t, nnd we 1 iok fer sitisfnctorv reilisitions of apple shipments on Monday, os RntonnhftTia SToasrs Edwards U M'Beath report for wage 3 H^t week ns follows : — Married eonplos, X7O to £on ; eirpontera, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; blaekf/nitlis, 0s ti 10s; painters and glaziers, 103; plumbers and gasßttera, Ob to 103 ; atoremOD, 42s to <Kla ; draymen, -12s to 50s ; coachmen, 30a to S.is ; frrooms, 25i> to 355 ; gardeners, Gs to 8s ; firm Kinds, 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 25s to 273; ao'ol men, 20s to 40s ; barmaid*, 2.73 to 30s; nmlresses. 15s to 2ds; cooks, 25s to 40s; female <10, 25s to Tss ; housemaids, 12s to '20s ; general servants. 10s to Ite ; imt»o^irls aud boy 379 to 15a. No Hlterfttrm since last report;