COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 66, 15 September 1894, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

-+ Evening Post Office, Thursday Afteruoou The Customs duties colloctcd at tho port of Wellington for tho week ending to-day amounted to £11,680 ISs 4d. Beer, £136 6s 6d GfORGE Thomas axd Co. report wholesale pro•luce prices as follows :— A quiet week, without any important features of interest to note, if wo except a slight upward movemont in primo table potatoes and an unsupplied demand for good samples of onions, which seem to bo somewhat scarce. 'Wi quote roller flour, 200's, £7 10s to £7 13s; Htouo process is now almost unobtainable, owiujf to tho majority of millers haviug converted their machinery into tho new process. Whole" fowl wheat is in small compass, and worth 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; bran, 55s j pollard, 80s. Primo short oats, Is lOJd to 2s ; oood feed do. Is 9d to Is lOd ; common ditto, Is 8d j Dun and Black Tartars. Is lOJd to 2s Id. Oatmeal, £9 10s to £10; oaten sheaf chaff, 70s to 755 ; maize, 2s 6d to 2s 8d j feed barley, 2s 3d ; pearl barley, 17s. Blue peas, 3s 3d; Partridge and Dun ditto, 3s 4d ; beans, 3s 2d. Prime Derwent potatoes, 40s ; fair samples, 35s to 37s 6d ; seed descriptions, including Early Bose, BUss Breezes' Proliflcs, 655; Kidneys, 70s; Flukes, 70s; Magnum Bonums, Cos; Bruco's Kiaueys, 7os; Snowflakcs, 60s; and Early Goodrich, 60s per ton. Good onions are scarce and worth £10 per ton. Prime full cream factory cheese, 4Jd to sd; hams aud bacon, 7d; bacon aloue, 6jd ; hams, Bd. Fresh butter, cream separator, Is ; dairy, 8d to 9d (tho supply is now bocoining more, plentiful) ; salted samples in bulk possess no local demand. Eggs are dull at 8d per uoz. Fowls, 3s 3d to 3s fid ; ducks, -Is Gd ; geese, Cs ; and turkeys, 8s to 10s per pair. . The fruit salos for tho weok exhibit poor results, the market beiug overstocked. Sydney oranges reulised'-'s 6d to 3s Cd ; mandarins. 4s to Gs Gd ; pines, up to 7s ; lemons, 3s to ss ; Island oranges, 6s to 7s ; Hobart apples, from 6s to Us, according to description. Fungus has not improved, and the full value is 21d per lb. Messrs Edwards and M'Beath report wagca for lost w«ek as follow* ;— Marriod couples, £70 to £90 j carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; painters aud glaziers, 10u; plumbers and gasflttcrs, 9s to 10s ; storomen, 42s to 60s ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 355 ; grooms, 25s to 355; gardeners, 6u to 8s; form hands, 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 25s to 275 ; hotelnicn 209 to 40s ; barmaids, 25s toSOs ; waitresses, 15s to 20s; cooks, 25s to 40a; female do, 25s to 355 ; houßomaids, 12s to 20s ;, general servants, 10s to Us ; nursefrirls aud boys, 7s to 15s. There has liccn very little alteration since last roport.