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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 2

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Svxvnra Post Offioa. Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £6105 9s sd. Beer, SA 16s 84 Griosas Thomas amd Co. report wholesale prodace nrices as follows : — The market demand for all lintß is insotiTe, with only retail business passing, the different valuations are nnohantred, and we hare only to report last week's quotations. Leading brands of roller flour are steady at £9 10s pet ton for 20U's ; prime whole fowl wheat, 3s 9(1 ; broken samples, Ss to 3a Sdper bushel; pollard. 93s to 955 ; bran, 70s to 75s per ton ; best sparrowbill short oats, 2a : lone feed (Danish and tartars), Is lid; dnns,,2s2d; black do. 2s 13; best oaten sheaf chaff, 753 : fair quality from 65s to 70s j oatmeal, £9 to £9 10s, according to brands ; maize, Zs 8d per bnshel ; whole beans, Ss Id to 3s 2di; bine peas, 3s 3d; partridge do, 3s Id; feed barley, olesn, Zs M; tailings, 2s 3d per bnshel; pearl barley, 13s ; split pe*t, 12s 6d cwt ; prime Cantorbnry table potatoes, 42s 6d to 45s per ton ; other sorts ore practically unsaleable, and the same remarks apply to seed descriptions, for which this year there is a Terr poor demand ; cocksfoot is in fair request at 4sd for machine dressed and 3jd for farmers' parcels; prime factory cbeese, 4jd per lb ; Akaroa,4d do : fresh separator bnttor, lOd per lb ; potted samples overstocked and doll at 7d ; pastry descriptions, 44 per lb ; ogirs are now plentiful, and down to Is per dozen ; bacon, s|d; funjras. 3d per lb. Messrs Kdwards and M'Beath. report wages for last week as follows :— Married conples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s; painters anj glaziers, 10s; plumbers and gasfltters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 42s V>6os; draymen, 4£s to 50s; coachmen, 80s to 355; X, ,-irna, 25s to 35s gardeners, 6s to 8s; form hands, 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 25s to 27t hotelmen , v 10s to <0s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; waitresses, 15s to "rr-i coVe, 255 iv 40s j female do, 25i to 355; , \St '*- Jlato208; general serronta, 10s to kj. ti *nj impK-,;, fc^,," 7s to 15s. AVo cannot "* this week.