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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2

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* Ernnno Post Office, Sctorday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port ot Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £565078 Id. Beer, £157 63 6d Geokob Thohas ahd Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows : — The interchange of business is of a normal character, with nothing calling for any special remarks. The position of the potato market indicate* a poor prospect of any adranco in prices, and holder* are clearing stocks at all anilablo outlets. We qnote-Best roller flour, £9 5s to £9 10s per ton for sacks; prime whole fowl wheat, 3s 9d to 3s lOd per bushel ; pollard has only a small enquiry, at 90s ; bran, 70s to 753 per ton. Bert descriptions of short sparrowbill oats are worth 2s; long oats, Is lid to 2a; duns, 2s 2d ; black tartars, 2s 2d per bushel. Best oaten sheaf chaff, 755 ; fair quality, 70s ; common, from 555-to 60s per ton. Oatmeal, £9 to £9 10s per ton for 25*; maize, 2s 7d to 2a 8d per bnsbel. Whole beans, 3s Id ; crushed, 3s 4d. Blue peas, 3s 3d : partridge, 3s Id. Prime feed barley, 2s 4d per bushel s pearl do, 13s cwt j split peas, 13s cwt. Prime Canterbury potatoes are dull at 45s per ton ; kidneys, from 55i to 60s ; Early Bose, 60s. A fan: enquiry is to be noted for cocksfoot grass*eed at 3jd to 4}d, according to quality. Prime factory cheese. 4}d per lb. Fresh separator butter, 9)d per ]t>; lump separator, 7d; farmers', 6d; VOMtrj, 4d per lb. Eggs are overstocked and reduced to 7}d and 8d per dozen. Bacon, s}d; farmers', 4}d. Ham*, 6{4; fungus, 3d to Sid. PoulUy, per pair— Fowls, 2* 6d ; ducks, 4a ; and turkeys, 6s to Bs. Messrs Edward* and M'Beath report wages for last; week as follows :— Married couples, £70 to -£90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s; painter* and glaziers, 10s ; plumbers and gosfltters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 42s to 60s; draymen, 42* to 50s; coachmen, 30* to 3ss ; grooms, 25s to 35s gardeners, 6s to 8s; form hands, 15s to 255 ; milkmen, 25s to 27s hotelmen 20s to 40s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s: waitresses, 15s to 20s; cooks, 25s to 40s; female do, 25s to 85s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants, 10a to 14s ; nnrsegirls and boys, 7« to 15s."**SerTants are plentiful, but very little demand for them.