COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Svihiho Post Office, Satnrddav Afternoon The Customs dnties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £9912 la 2d. Beer. £135 0s 6d Geoeok Tnoius akd Co. report wholesale produce nrices as follows: —Tbe groin market is inactive, and .there are no changes to report. As we have mentioned before, in tbe majority of lines Drices ruling here are on a oar with those quoted f.o.b. Sonth, owing to the large forward purchases made before tbelate rise. Leading and favourite brands of roller flour remain at £9 10s per ton for sacks; prime whole fowl wheat is difficult to obtain at 3s 9d per bushel; screenings command from 3s to 3s 6d j pollard is inclined to ease in value, and at present we still quote 903 per ton; bran, 70s to 75b ; best descriptions of short oats, 2s: long feed. Is lid: duns, 23 Id; black tartars, 2s 3d per bushel; best oaten sheaf ohaff, 755; fair, 70s: common, 60s to 65s per ton; oatmeal, £9 to £910s per ton for 25' a: maize, 2s 8d per lioshel; whole beans, 3s Id to 3s 2d; blue peas, 3s 3d; partridge do, Ss 2d; prime samples feed barley, 2ssd; fair,2s 3d; Cape do,2s lid; pearl barley, 13a cwt; split peas, 12s 6d cwt; prime Canterbury potatoes are very dull of sale at *5s per ton, and the demand for seed descriptions has not realised anticipations, and qnotations exhibit a 25 per cent, reduction on openintr values; cocksfoot is in fair demand at 3}d to *jd per Ib, according to sample; prime factory cheese. 4{d ; fresh separator bntter in full supply at 9d to Old; salted samples, 7d; pastry, 5d per Ib; eggs are becoming overstocked, and to-day's value is 9d, with a fnrther drooping tendency; bacon, SJd; hams, 6fd ; fungus. 3d to 3}d per Ib. Abuhau and Williams, Falmerston North, report of their stock market:—We hare only the Folmerston sale of Thursday to report upon. Sheen were below usual numbers. The quality of the homreta was rather better than medium, and sold freely under tba hammer. Breeding ewes were in moderate enquiry, aud sold ateadily. Fat cattle sold readily under the hammer. A few milkers and undergrown heifers made np the remainder of the entry, and were all cleared at quotations. Cattle—Fat bullocks, £$ 6a to £6 16s 6d; fat cows, £4 12s 6d to £5 6s; milch cows, springing, £4 to £5: older, £-2; small heifers, in calf, 365. Sheep—Prime fat ewes, 10s 6d; others. 6s sd; hogirets,6s6dto6slld; others, 6s; culls, 3s 8d; breeding ewes, 6s 8d to 6s lid. Messrs Kdwards and M'Beath report wages for last week as follows:—Married couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s j blacksmiths, 9s to 10s; painters and glaziers, 10s; plumbers and gasfltters, 9s to 10s; storemen, 42s to 60s; draymen, 42s to 50s; coachmen,3os to 355; grooms, 25s to 35s gardeners, 6s to 8s; farm hands, 15s to 255; milkmen, 25s to 27s hotelmen 80s to 40s; barmaids, 25s to 30s; waitresses, 15s to 20s; cooks, 25s to 40s; femafo do, 25s to 355; housemaids, 12s to 20s j general serrants, 10s to l*s ; nursegirls and boys, 7s to 15s. We cannot report any improvement thiß week.