COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 746, 18 June 1886, Page 18

COMMERCIAL NEWS

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending on Saturday amounted to L 3217 4s. Beer duty, L6O 16s 6d. Messrs George Thomas and Co. report produce prices for this week as follows: — Business has again been considerably interfered with by the boisterous weather, and. there is little or no change to note. Flour is still ruling at LlO to LU, with an upward tendency. Fowls’ wheat at 3s Bd, and pollard L 6 10s, is almost unobtainable, the markets in the South being completely cleared out for Sydney consumption. Bran remains firm at I.G. Oats are anticipated to shortly advance, and present values are only temporary. We quote good feed at 2s 4d to 2s 5d per bushel ; oatmeal, Ll2 19s to [LI2 15s; oaten chaff, L 3 15s to L 4 10s per ton. Prime Derwent potatoes are saleable, but so many inferior sorts are now offering from 50s upwards that any quotation under L 3 5s may be safely said to be for second-class samples. Good onions are asked for at L 8 10s per ton. Beans remain as last quoted, 3s Gd, and the same remarks apply to peas, 4s Gd ; maize, 4s 2d; carrots, 45s ; feed barley, 2s Sd; pearl barley, Ll 7 ; black oats, 2s lOd ; cheese, 6kl; honey, 4d to 6d ; hops, Gd ; salt butter, 9d - to lOd ; fresh, Is ; hams and bacon. 8d ; eggs, 2s 3d per dozen. Supplies of poultry are ample, and fowls are hard to move at 3s ; turkeys, 9s; geese, 6s ; ducks, 3s 6d per pair. The fruit market is well supplied with oranges and other Sydney fruit, which, however,. does not find favor in consequence of the unripe and irregular condition of each shipment. Apples and pears are likely to be scarce through the usual anticipated arrivals from Hobart not having come to hand. The market, however, has been overstocked for some time., and a slight cessation of consignments will in the end be pioductive of good results. Messrs Cooper and Steward report wages as 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 60s ; 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 to 18s ; general servants, 9s to 15s ; nursegirls, 5s to 10s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; milkmen, 15s to 255.; farm hands, 15s to 25s ; boys, 5s to 12s ; waitresses, 15s to 20s ; laundresses, L3O to LSO ; married couples, L7O to LOO. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the week—Banks—New Zealand, Ll 9 10s to Ll 9 15s ; National, 37s ; Colonial, 42s ; Insurance—New Zealand, 69s to 70s ; National, 15s to 15s Gd ; South British, 30s to 35s ; Union, 20s to 20s Od ; Standard, 10s 6d to 11s ; Colonial, 4s; Equitable, 9d to Is; New Zealand Accident, 3s 9d to 4s ; Accident Association, Gd. Miscellaneous—Loan and Mercantile, 75s to 77s ; Land Mortgage, 21s to 22s ; National Mortgage, ISsGcl to 19s; Union Steam, Ll2 ; Mosgiel Woollen, SOo to Sis- Kaiapoi, 90s; New Zealand Drug, 15s Gd to 16s'; Wanganui Gas, Ll2 10s ; Westport Coal, 2s 6d to 55.; Wellington Trust and Loan, LG 7s Gd ; Equitable Building, LG 10s ; Wellington Gas’, L2O and LlO ; Manawatu Railway, 18s; Gear Meat, 655. (cum div). WELLIN GTON M ARRETS.

Wholesale j ’KICKS. EAF.TiI AND DAIRY PRODUCE £ s. d. £ d. Milk, quart - - 0 0 4 to 0 6 5 Butter, fresh - - 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Salt Butter - 0 0 9J to 0 0 10 Cheese, Col. - - 0 0 5" to 0 5£Eggs, d-ozen - - 0 2 3 to 0 2 6 Lard, lb. - 0 0 5?, to 0 0 6.1 Bacon, lb. - 0 0 7“ to 0 o 71 Ham, lb. - 0 0 Sh to 0 0 9“ Fowls, pair - 0 3 0“ to 0 o 3 Ducks, pair - - 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 Geese, each - - 0 2 6 to 0 3 0 Turkeys, each - 0 3 0 to 0 4 0 May and Cohn Market. £ s. d. .(? <5. d. Maize, Poverty Bay - " 0 0 0 to 6 4 3 Oats, feed - 0 2 4 to 0 2 6 Wheat do - 0 3 (5 to 0 3 q Carrots - 0 2 5 to 0 »■> xb Hay, ton - 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Oaten, ton 4 To 0 to 5 ‘o 0 Straw, ton - 3 0 0 to 3 10 0 Chaff.— - 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Oaten hay - 4 0 0 to 5 0 0 Wheat, straw - - 3 0 0 to 3 o 0 Onions per cwt - 0 7 0 to 0 9 0 Potatoes - 3 0 0 to 3 5 0 Flour Market. Wholesale £ s. a. £ s. d Sharps, per ton - ■ 5 10 0 to 6 0 0 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 s •I EDS. £ s. d. £. s. a Ryegrass, bushel - - 0 4 9 to 0 5 ,p. Cocksfoot, lb. - 0 0 4:} to 0 0 oi 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 L0 Cow Grass, lb. - 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Timothy, lb. - - 0 0 ti to 0 0 0 Rape, lb. - 0 0 4 to 0 0 0