COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1894, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Eveking Tost Office, Saturday Afternoon Tho Customs duties collected at tho port of Wollingtou for the week ending to-day amounted to 171 MUSS lil. Beer, £192 2s 7d fJpoiKiK Thomas &Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows :—Roller flour, C 7 15s to ,IR ,->s; stone do, 5.7 to C 7 10s ; oatmeal, ,E10; pollard, £JI ."w i hraii, ,C!1 per ton; (rood whole fowls' whent, U* («1 to 0b 7d; second samples from 2s 2d to 2s W; prune shoi'U oats, 2s to 2* 2d j long feed, Is lOd to ite; oaten sheaf chaff, £3 10s to £1; feed lmrley, 2s 6d; pearl barley, 17s; blue peas, 3s Gd j rtndge do, 3s 3d ; split peas, 15i; horse beans, id to 3n sd; maize, 3s 6d; rye grass, 3s 6d to 4j 3d per bushel; cocksfoot, 4d to tjd per lb; Dcrwent potatoes, £2 15s to £3; onions, these are scarce, and aro nominally worth £i 10s. Tho milo for all kinds of butter is very limited, and dull, bnt cream separator is only worth 8d to 9d, and dairy 7dj cgirs find ready salo at Is6d; new cure hnuiß and bacon are worth B}d to 9d per lb. Poultry is dnll of sale at following rates —Fowls, 2s Cd; ducks, 3s; geese, sis; turkeys, Cs 6(1. A good demand exists for all clauses of fruit, which meet with ready sale at satisfactory rates. Messrs Edwards and M'Benth report wages for last week as follow*: —Married couples, X7O to £90; carpenters, 'lCs; hricklayors, 12s; blacksmiths, 9» to 10s j painters and glaziers, 10s; plumbers and gasfitters, !)s to 10s; storcmen, 42s to 60s; draymen, 12s to 50s; coachmen, 30s to3ss; grooniß, 25s to 355; gardeners, 6s to 8s; farm hands, 15s to 255; milkmen, 25s to 275; hotelmou 80s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 30s; waitresses, 15« to 20s j cook?, 25s to 40s; female do, 25s to 355; housemaids, 12s to 20s; iffucral sorrantß, 10s to 14s; nnrseglrls and boys, 7s to 15.5. Tho market U extremely dull and overstocked with labour