COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 745, 11 June 1886, Page 18

COMMERCIAL NEWS

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wholesale Prices. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending on Saturday amounted to L 5669 18s lOd. Beer duty, Llls 4s 2d.

Messrs George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follow : —“ Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a fair amount of business has been transacted, and quotations for the following lines of breadstuffs and grain all show a firm, upward tendency. Flour has advanced quite LI per ton, and is now ruling at L 9 10s to LlO 15s ; pollard and bran, very scarce at L 6 10s and L 6 respectively ; fowls’ wheat, steady at 3s 8d to 3s 9d ; oats, 2s 4d to 2s 7d ; oatmeal, Ll2 5s ; and onions, L 9 toL9 10s. Several speculative purchases of prime butter are reported at prices from 9d to 9Jd, but until the arrival of intelligence _ from Sydney of a more cheering character it is impossible to quote higher rates for the current month. The ruling prices for maize at 4s, barley 2s Sd, beans 3s 9d, peas 4s 4d, potatoes L 3 5s to L 3 10s, chaff L 3 10s to L 4, cheese 6d, bacon and hams Sd, fresh butter lid, eggs 2s 6d, honey 4d to 6d, Nelson hops sd, carrots 60s, and turnips 50s, are unaltered. Supplies of fruit have been light, but quite sufficient to meet present requirements; bananas ruled from 6s to 7s per bunch; pines, 7s per doz £ cocoanuts, 8s per sack; oranges, 5s 6d to 6s per case ; Hobart apples, from 8s to 10s ; pears, from 10s to 15s ; New Zealand fruits have increased in demand, and prices are higher than has been the case for some time. Poultry— Turkeys, 10s ; geese, 6s ; ducks, 3s 6d ; fowls, 3s 3d per pair. We report the sale of a shipment of store pigs at prices averaging 13s each.”

Messrs Cooper and Steward report wagesas follows : Carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plumbers and gasfitters, 10s ; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; labor and pick and shovel men, 7s ; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 35s ; grooms, 20s to 30s; storemen, 30s to 50s ; gardeners, 7s ; hotelmen, 20s to 40s; cooks, 25s to 40s female do, 15s to 25s ; housemaids, 12s j. general servants, 9s to 15s ; nursegirls, 5s to 10s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; milkmen, 15s to 25s ; farm hands, 15s to 25s ; boys, 5s to 12s ; waitresses, 15s to 20s ; laundresses, L3O to LSO ; married couples, L7O to L9O. We have had rather a slack week, owing to bad weather. Men of all classes are plentiful, and no difficulty would be found in supplying employers with any class of male labor. Good general servants, housemaids and nursegirls are rather scarce and hard to get for country places. We have one or two good housekeepers, also lady helps and governesses, awaiting engagement. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the week : —Sales—Wellington Public Hall Company (Theatre Royal), 30s paid up, 22s 6d, 10s paid up, 7s 6d; Colonial Bank, 41s 6d ; National Bank, 37s ; Colonial Insurance, 4s; Wellington Trust and Loan, L 6 7s 6d. Quotations —Banks—New Zealand, Ll 9 10s to Ll 9 15s ; National, 37s ; Colonial, 41s 6d to 425. Insurance—New Zealand, 70s ; National, 14s to 14s 6d ; South British, 30s to 35s ; Union, 20s to 20s 6d ; Standard, 10s 6d to 11s ; Colonial,'4s; Equitable, 9d tr. Is ; New Zealand Accident, 3s 9d to 4s ; Accident Association, 5d to 6d. Miscellaneous —Loan and Mercantile, 75s to 77s 6d; Land Mortgage, 21s 6d to 22s 6d ; National Mortgage, 19s 6d to 20s ; New Zealand Shipping, 25s to 27s ; Union Steam, Ll2; Mosgiel Woollen, 80s ; Kaiapoi, 90s ; New Zealand Drug. 15s 6d to 16s ; Wanganui Gas, Ll2 10s ; Westport Coal, 2s 6d to ss; Wellington Trust and Loan, L67s 6d ; Equitable Building, L 6 10s ; Wellington Gas. L2O and LlO ; Manawatu Railway, 17s and 18s ; Gear Meat 62s 6d to 655. Messrs Laery and Campbell report : —Flour, L 9 10s to LlO ; bran, L 5 ; pollard, L 5 10s to L 6, very scarce ; oats, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; barley, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; potatoes, L 3 to L 3 10s ; onions, L 7 to L 8 ; cheese, sd_to 5?-,d ; fresh butter, last lot sold at auction realised 7d to Bd, with difficulty ; salt butter, 9id to lOd ; lard, 5d to mixed, 7ld to S£d ; fowls, 3s to 3s 3d ducks, 3s 6d to ~4s per pair; geese still unsaleable ? turkeys, 3s to 4s each.

£ s. d. £ 8, a. Milk, quart - - - 0 0 4 to 0 0 5 Butter, fresh - - • 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Salt Butter - 0 0 9?t to 0 0 10 Cheese, Col. - - - 0 0 5 to 0 5$ Eggs, dozen - • - 0 2 3 to 0 2 6 Lard, lb. - 0 0 to 0 0 6J Bacon, lb. • - 0 0 7 to 0 0 74 Ham, lb. - 0 0 8£ to 0 0 9 Fowls, pair • - 0 3 0 to 0 3 3 Ducks, pair - • - 0 3 6 toO 4 0 Geese, each - • - 0 2 6 to 0 3 0 Turkeys, each - 0 3 0 toO 4 0 Hay and Corn Market. £ s. d. £ s. d. Maizei, Poverty Bay - 0 0 0 toO 4 3 Oats, feed - m - 0 2 4 to 0 2 6 Wheat do m 0 3 6 to 0 3 9 Carrots • - 0 2 5 to 0 2 10 Hay, ton - 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Oaten, ton 4 15 0 to 5 0 0 Straw, ton-: • - 3 0 0 to 3 10 0 Chaff.— - 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Oaten hay - 4 0 0 to o 0 0 Wheat, straw - 3 0 0 to 3 5 0 Onions per cwt - 0 7 0 to 0 9 0 Potatoes - 3 0 0 to 3 5 0 Flour Market. Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s. 8 Sharps, per ton . - 5 10 Oto 6 0 e Adelaide, per ton ■ 11 15 to 12 0 0 Bran, per ton • - 5 0 0 to 5 5 0 Colonial Flour - 9 10 0 to 10 0 0 Oatmeal . 12 10 0 to 12 15 0 Pearl Barley 17 0 0 Seeds. £ s. d. £ 8. a Ryegrass, bushel - 0 4 9 to 0 5 64 Cocksfoot, lb. - 0 0 4£ to 0 0 5 4 Wt, Clover, lb. - 0 0 10 to 0 0 10 Red, lb. « . 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Alsyke, lb. - 0 0 10 to 0 0 10 Cow Grass, lb. . 0 0 7 toO 0 y Timothy, lb. - - 0 0 6 to 0 0 0 Rape, lb. - 0 0 4 to 0 0 0‘