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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 2

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Svxima Post Office, Saturday Afternoon The Customs duties collected at the port of ■Wellington for the week ending to-day amounted to £13.552 Ha 3d. Beer, £3 is Gxoaos Thomas ahd Co. report wholesale produce uricei as follows : — Th» fact that a reason, able hope exists- that very shortly the protective duty on oats will be removed in New South Wales has caused a marked harden : ng tendency in southern quotations, and holders are disinclined to do bnsiness unless at fall market rates. Other linen continue unchanged, if we except potatoes, which show a farther decline in .value. Good whole fowl wheat is hard to pick up unless at niices on a par with second milling. We qnote— ISsst brands roller floor, £9 10s per ton ; bran, 70s to 755 : pollard, 90s; whole fowl wheat, 3s 9d to 3s lOd. Prime short oats, 2s; long feed. Is lid; duns, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; black tartars, 2s 3d per bushel. Oatmeal, £9 to £9 10s. Best oaten sheaf chaff, 7ss c fair, 7os: common, 6os per ton. Feed tarlsy, 2s 84 to 2s « ; pearl do, 13s. Haize, 2s 6d to 2s 7d per bushel ; wbole horse beans, 3s Id to 3s 2d. Blue and partridge pens, 3s Id to 3s* Sd; eplit do, 13s. Cocksfoot grass seed, machinedressed, «d; farmers' parcelled to 3}d; rjeBrass, 8s fid to 4s 3d per bushel. Derwent potatoes, 42s «d to 45s i Breeze's Prolifios. Yermonts, Early Boss, Mngoum Bonnms, and Snowflakes, from 45s to 60s per Ion: Cheese (foctorr), i\i; hams and bacon, 6d to <Hd j bacon, sid per lb ; prime fresh •**?, 7d to 7£l per dozon. Separator butter, in lib rolls, 8d to lOd ; lump, from 7 J ; pastry do, 4d. Fungus, 3d to 344. Poultry, per pUr— Fouls, 2i M ;.,dnck», 4s ; reese. 5s 6d ; tnrkejs, It. ' A»«i»»M kxd Williams, Palmerston North, report of their stock market : — We hive to report a firm tone insllolaises of suitable sheep. C-ttle are in belter enquiry, especially for well-bred lines of' two-year steers, for which there is an unsatisfied demand. At Coly ton on Tuesday the bulk of the cattle sold freely. Sheep, in moderate •apply, were irregular in quality, bidding at times bung consequently hampered, leaving a fair amount to be don* privately, bnt eventoallv' the lmlk was cleared. Milch cow«m«do from £4 Sato MS IDs ; empty heifers. £2 9i 6d ; 2-year Steers, £3 St; small wesners, 20s to 255; aged ewes and lambs, 4s 6d; forward wethers, 9s sd; ttora do, SsM;. hoggets, 5s 3d to 7s 6d. At Palmerston on Thandty we had a substantial entry of sheep. The steady improvement of recent sales " went one better," reinltinc in a total clearance. Tbe •upply of be«f, thoach small, wag egnal to requirements. medium bullocks making *B 10s ; springers ■old freely at from £1 16 } to £1 lls ; a sprinkling of 18-month cattle and treaners, generally of in. different quality, mado at the sale, and' wen quitted at pricesinuiKrog from 26s to 45sBd; milch cows , £4 to £0. jtfessrs Kdwards andM'Beath report wages for laatCwaek aa follows :— Married oouplae, £70 to £90;-, carpenters, 10s j bricklayers, 12s; black, ■rnlthf, 9s to 10s; pointers and glaziers, 10s: plumbers and gasfitters, 9s to 10s ; storemen, 42s to 60s; draymen, 42s to 80s ; coachmen, 30s to 355; ■rooms, 85s to 85* gardeners, 6i to 8s; /aim Bands, 15a to 25s j milkmen, 25s to 27s hotelmen 20sto40s; barmaids, 2ss to 3os; waitresses, 15s to 90s; cooks, 25s to 40s; female do, 25s to Sss; —housemaids, 12s to 20s; general servants, 10s to 14* ; nunwirls and boys, 7s to 15s. Servants are plentiful.iiut very little demand for them. WEATHEE FORECAST FOB 34 HOURS . FROM i> a.m. TO-DAT. Wj»d— Between nortb-west and west and south at all places Jumitw- Further nse everywhere " Sxa— Heavy on western coast and increase on •astern comit Ttnijs-^Hlgh on an western coast and moderate 6n eastern coast Warnings for westerly and southerly rales bay« basasent to all places southward of Napier and New Plymouth, and hold good at all otter places STKoroto or ijtßi 24 *ooas Falling barometer everywhere until about 8 pm, and. since then it hss nsen generally. Northerly gain, with rain, have been prevalent north of Kapler and New Plymouth, and moderate to fresh" westerly winds and fine weather elsewhere > •-, • • B. A. EDWIN TELBGBAf H MAIL NOTICES , Malls, for United Kingdom via Mpnto 'Video, closest l-rttelfori <Jn, Monday, 2nd September, at