COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 770, 3 December 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 5353 13s Id. JBeer duty, !L6O 19s 9d. Messrs George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows There is very little if any improvement in the demaud for grain, as green feed is now very plentiful. Elour is quite without alteration, and the same may be said of oatmeal'and pearl barley. A better demand exists for prime parcels of bacon and hams, presumably in anticipation of Christmas requirements. This season’s cheese commands fair attention, and last year’s make is now ruling at very low rates. We quote oats from 2s 4d to 2a 8d ; oatmeal, Ll2 10s ; oaten chaff, sheaves L 5, straw L 4 10s ; flour, Lll to Ll2los ; pollard; L 5 5s ; bran, L 5 ; fowl wheat, 4s 6d to 4s 7d, broken samples, 4s to 4s 3d ; feed barley, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; maize, 3s 8d to 3s 9d ; beans, 3s lOd to 4s ; old potatoes are inquired for, but the quality must be undoubted, at L2; onions rule from Id to 2d for Sydney and San Francisco samples respectively ; new cheese, 6sd, old from 3d to 4d ; hams and bacon, 6£d to 7d (Canterbury). The arrivals of spring produce include new potatoes at 9s to 10s per cwt; green peas, 7|d to 8d per peck ; rhubarb, 3s 9d to 4s per dozen ; gooseberries, 2Jd per quart; eggs, lOd per dozen. The fruit market hss been almost bare of supplies, and oranges have become quite scarce; a few small consign- . meats of Island samples to hand were quickly moved at 12s to 14s 6d per case. Poultry is readily disposed of at following prices:— Turkeys, 8s to 10s; geese, 7s ; ducks, 4s ; and fowls, 3s 9d per pair.” Messrs Cooper and Steward report wages a 3 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 25s ; farm hands, 15s to 25s ; boys, 5s to 12s ; waitresses, 15s to 20s ; laundresses, L3O to X. 50 ; married couples, £.70 to L9O. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the week i —Banks—New Zealand, sellers DlB ; National, sellers 35s ; Colonial, sales 425. Insurance —New Zealand, 65s to 66s ; South British, sales 90s ; National, sellers 14s 3d, ex div ; Union, sellers 20s 6d ; Standard, 10s ; Colonial, sellers 4s 6d ; Equitable, Is ; New Zealand Accident, 3s 6d ; Accident Association, Id to 2d. Miscellaneous —Loan and Mercantile, 80s ; Land Mortgage, 21s ; National Mortgage, 18s 6d; New Zealand Shipping, sellers 335; Union Steam, Ll2; Mosgiel Woollen, 76s ; Kaiapoi, 85s ; New Zealand Drug, 15s; JNapier Gas, Ll 3; Wanganui Gas, Ll2 10s ; Kaitangata Coal, Ll 3 ; Westport Coal, 10s ; Wellington Trust and Loan, L 6 8s 6d; Equitable Building, L 6 10s ; Northern Land and Loan, L2 ; Wellington Gas, sellers, (fully paid) Ll 9, (second issue L 5 paid) sales L 9 7s 6d ; Maoawatu Railway sellers, 19s ; Gear Meat, 70s. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co., report the- following returns of amalgam from the Reef ton mines-;—Globe, 208ozs, top plates only; Fiery Cross, 2190z5; Just-in-Time, JOOozs; Keep-it-Dark, 5460z5. The Venus

have washed up with a return of 3420zs of gold. The Alpine returns not in. The Manager of the Globe telegraphs “ Winze down 65 feet, stone solid, prospects at bottom good.

Wholesale Prices. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE £ s. d £ s. d. ' Milk, quart Butter, fresh 0 0 4 to unsaleable 0 0 5 Salt butter - . unsaleable 0 7h Cheese, Col. 0 0 7 to 0 Eggs, dozen - 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Bard, lb. . 0 0 5h 0 0 Bacon, lb. - - 0 0 to 0 0 6& Ham, lb. - - 0 0 7\ to 0 0 8 Fowls, pair Ducks, pair - 0 3 0 to 0 3 3 - 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 JLU 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 Oa.ten, ton - - 4 15 0 to 5 0 0 Straw, ton . 3 0 0 to 3 10 0 Chaff,— - r - 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten hay - - 4 0 0 to 5 0 0 Wheat straw - 3 0 0 to 3 5 O' Onions per cwt - - 9 10 0 to 10 0 0 New Potatoes, per cwt 0 7 0 to 0 3 0 Flour Market. Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s. a. 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. £ s. d. £ s. d. Ryegrass, bushel - 0 6 0 to 0 6 6 Cocksfoot, lb. • - • 0 0 0 to 0 0 3£ 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. Rape, lb. - 0 0 6 to 0 0 0 * - 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Linseed, per cwt. - 0 16 0 to 0 0 0