COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 769, 26 November 1886, Page 19

COMMERCIAL NEWS

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending on Saturday amounted to L 4913 14s Id. Beer duty, L9O 15s Bd.

Messrs George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows : —The market quotations for flour are much the same as when last reported : leading brands maintain their value, and, judging from the scarcity of milling wheat, any tendency to reduction is somewhat remote. Oats, if anything, are weaker, although no decided change in values has taken place ; sales are exceedingly limited, and quite retail in character. Bran and pollard remain stagnant, and fowls’ fond—barley, maize, and wheat—command a fair amount of attention. There is no inquiry for peas, beans, or rye, and cocksfoot grass seed, and consequently stocks are light. A slight breeze has caught the old potato market, and for really good,, picked samples buyers are to be found, and prices rule from 40s per ton. We quote flour Lll to Ll2 10s; bran and pollard, L 5 ; oats,. 2s 4d to 2s 7d ; oatmeal; Ll2 to Ll2 10s ; maize, 3s 8d ; feed barley, 2s 9d ;fo.wl wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; cheese, 6d to 6J<l ; bacon and hams, 6fd to 7d ; Sydney onions, Ll2, and San Francisco, Ll 6 to LlB. The following are arrivals to date, of spring products and the ■ respective realisations:—New potatoes, Id per lb (retail price should rule at l^d); green peas, Is per peck ; rhubarb, 4s 6d per dozen; gooseberries, 3s 6d per 4-gallon case; eggs, 9d to 9|d; fresh butter, 7d per lb; honey, in the comb, 6s 6d per dozen lb boxes. The fruit market is quite bare, and supplies expected next week should realise full values. Poultry is in good demand at last quoted rates. 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 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 255; housemaids, 12s to 18s ; general servants, 9s to 15s; nursegirls, 5s to 10s; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; milkmen, 15s to 253 ; farm hands, 15s to 25s ; boys, 5s to 12s ; waitresses, 15s to 20s ; laundresses, L3O to L 59 ; married couples, L7O to L9O. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the week : —Banks—New Zealand, LlB 15s ; National, 36s ; Colonial, 425.. Insurance—New Zealand, 663 ; South British, 30s ; National, 14s 3d, ex div; Union, 20s 3d; Standard, 10s ; Colonial, 4s 6d; Equitable, Is ; New Zealand Accident, 3s 6d; Accident Association, 2d. Miscellaneous—Loan and Mercantile, 803 to 82s 6d ; Land Mortgage, 21s ; National Mortgage, 18s 6d; New Zealand Shipping, 355; Union Steam, Ll2; Mosgiel Woollen, 76s 6d, ex div ; Kaiapoi, 85s ; New Zealand Drug, 15s; Napier Gas, Ll 3; Wanganui Gas, Ll2 10s; Wellington Trust and Loan, sales, L 6 8s 6d ; Equitable Building, L 6 10s; Northern Land and -Loan, L2.ls ; Wellington Gas, Ll 9 and L 9 10s; Gear Meat,

70s ; Mining:—Globes, 45s ; Fiery Cross, 11s ; Just-in-Time, 8s 3d; Wealth-of-Nations, 12s ; Eureka, 7s. Messrß Arthur Warburton and Co., received the following telegram on Saturday, 20th November, at 7.50 p.m, from the Legal Manager of the Globe Gold Mining Co. at Reefton : —“ Globe winze down 52 feet; prospeets well, crushing looking well.”

Wholesale Prices. FARM AND dairy produce £ s. d £ S. d. Milk, quart - 0 0 4 to 0 0 5 Butter, fresh - unsaleable Salt butter -, - - . unsaleable Cheese, Col. 0 0 7 to 0 0 74 Eggs, dozen - 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Eard, lb. - - 0 0 5i to 0 0 61 Bacon, lb. - - 0 0 51 to 0 0 6f Ham, lb. - — 0 0 7| to 0 0 8 Fowls, pair - 0 3 0 to 0 3 3 Ducks, pair - 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 Geese, each • 0 3 0 to 0 3 6 Turkeys, each - 0 4 0 to 0 4 6 Hay and Corn Market. £ s. d. £ s. d. Maize, Poverty Bay - 0 0 0 to 0 3 9 Oats, feed - - • 0 2 8 to 0 2 10 Wheat do * - 0 3 9 to 0 4 3 Carrots . 2 5 0 to 2 10 0 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, — . 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten hay • - 4 0 0 to 5 0 0 Wheat straw , . S 0 0 to 3 5 0 Onions per cwt - - 9 10 0 to 10 0 0 New Potatoes, per lb. 0 0 1 to 0 0 14 Floor Market. Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s. d. Sharps, per ton • . 5 10 0 to 6 0 0 Adelaide, per ton - 11 15 0 to 12 0 0 Bran, per ton ■ . 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Colonial Flour • 11 10 0 to 12 0 0 Oatmeal 12 10 0 to 13 0 0 Pearl Barley - 15 0 0 to 16 0 0 Seeds. £ 8. d £ s. d. Ryegrass, bushel - 0 6 0 to 0 6 6 Cocksfoot, lb. • 0 0 0 to 0 0 Wt. Clover, lb. * • 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Red, do • 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Alsyke, lb. - • 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Cow Grass, lb. - • 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Timothy, lb. 0 0 6 to 0 0 0 Rape, lb. - 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Binseed. per cwt. - 0 16 0 to 0 0 0