COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1894, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office, Saturday Afternoon

Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port o f Wellington for the week ending to-day amountoj to £7200 4s 7d. Beer. £192 3s Od Georqi Thomas and Co. report wholesalo produce prices as follows :—We hare to note a very S met week. The month's orders from the trade iow a considerate fjpjfing off in bulk. Potatoes still show furtkew ifcns of decline, and oats exhibit a drooping fisafancy. Tho value for really good WKkJaW/ thiff is we.U maintained, although a lares ql*fsnl^r of inferior quality is offering. The demand for bran and pollard is on the wane, owing to the closing of winter demand for dairyfarm purposes. We quote roller flour, 200*8, £7 10s to Sn 15s; wholo fowl wheat, 2s 7Jd to 2s Od; pollard, 80s; bran, 52s 6<l to SSa. Prime short oats, Is lid; good feed, Is lOd; long ditto, Is 8(1 to Is Od i dun and black Tartars, 2s; oatmeal, £9 10s to £10: oaten sheaf chaff, 65s to 70s ; maize, 2s Od to 2s lOd j beans, 3s. Blue peas, 3s; Parfridge and duns, 3s 3d. Feed barley, 2s 2d; pearl barley, 17s; snlit pens, 14s; onions, £9 10s to £10. Derwent potatoes, 37s 6d to 40s; seed descriptions (rations sorts), 80s to 90s; primo factory cheese, 4}d to sd. Cream separator butter, Is Id to Is 2d; dairy, lOd; salt, Bd to Od; pastry, 6d lb. Hams and bacon, 7d; eggs, 7Jd per doz. Fiji shipments (fortnightly venture) did not turn out a succesß, and shippers would do well to confine themselves to the one consignment by Ovalau. Bunches ruled from Is to 2s Cd and cases 4s to 6s. Hobart apples were in excellent request at 7s np to lls for choice sorts ; Sydney oranges, 3s 6d to 5a 6d; lemons, 4s; mandarins (bad ordor), 3s to 6s; passions, 6s ; loquats. 4s to 4s 6d; pines, 10a. Poultry is still in good demand—fowls, 3s 6(1; ducks, 4s Cd; geese, 6s; turkeys, 8s to 10s per pair. Messrs Edwards and M'Beath report wages for last week as follows:—Married couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s; painters and glaziers, 10s; plumbers and gnsfltters, 9s to 10s; storemon, 42s to 60s; draymen, 42s to 50s; coachmen, 30s to 35a; grooms, 25s to 355; gardeners, 6s to 8s; farm hands, 15s to 255; milfanon, 25s to 275; hotelmen 30s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 30s; waitresses, 15s to 20s; cooks, 25s to 40s; female do, 25s to 35b; housemaids, 12s to 20s j general servants, 10s to 14s; nursegirls and boys, 7s to 15s. There is still a good supply of labour, and small demand.