COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 88, 14 April 1894, Page 2

COMMERCIAL .

Evi^rc Post Office, Saturday Afternoon Tho Custom* duties collected at tho port of (Vollins?ton for tlie week ending to-day amounted o£OSGJBsIO.I. I)cer T £lslllssa Gkoeoe Thomas &Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows :-»uru>S tbo past week tbeuiarfcet ba« naaumed » steadier tone for all classes of irratn. Onions aro scarce, and worth fro in £5 to Cslos, having advanced 20s per ton. We quote Oatmeal, £10 ; roller flour, X 7 15s to £8 ss; polha^£S ite ; bran, £3 j fowls' wheat, 2s 6d to ,2b 7d prime short oats, 2s to 2s 20 ; lon* feed. Is lOd to X- oaten flheaf chaff. £3 10a to £4 ; feed barley, 2s Gd : pearl barley, 178 ; blue powi, 3s M ; partridge do ,3s 3d; BT,lit peas, 15s; maize, 3b 6d; 7 e^TS need, «s 9d to 4s 6d per bushel ; cocksfoot, 4d to Hd wr lb • butter, slow of bale at Od per lb tor separator, and 7a to 8d for dairy ; Offl?s are very scarce, and find ready sale at Is Ud per doz j fowls •>k 6d to 2s Od ; ducku, 3j ; kcpdc, sa ; turkeys, 6s 6d Mcshts Edwards nnd M'Ucatb report wages for 1,,8t week-ns follows s — Mnrnod couples, £70 to £00- carpenters, 10»; bricklayers, 12« ; black, smiths 9s to 10«; imintora and plaziers, 10s; plumbers nod gaafltters, OhIoIOs; Btoremen. 42h to6ftf- drayroeu.-tiistoDOrt; cooclinien.3os to 355; room's, 2Ss to 355; (jardencrs, »»to 8s; farm handu, 15b to 25b ; niilkme... 25b to 27b ; hotelmen ZOs to 40s ; barmaids, 25» to 30s ; waitresses, 15s to 20s- rooks, 25« to VIH-, female do, 25s to 35s j hougeiniiids, 12s to 20b ; general servants, 10s to 1 i« ; nurseinrls and boys, 7s to 15«. The only al. teratiou we can report is au iucreaHe ju tho demand for domestic Berrants