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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 7491, 1 June 1885, Page 2

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New Zealand Times Office, Saturday evening. The customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week .ending Saturday, amounted to L 5257 5s lOd. Beer duty, L 63 18s 2d. . Mes.-rs George Thomas and Co. reportproduce as follows:—Oats—The market is steady; bright milling, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; feed, 2s to 2s Id. Oatmeal has usual business at Ll2 10s to Ll2 15s. Flour i« in supply, but prices are now the lowest possible to clear cost —1-8 10h to L 9. Milling wheat, no demand ; fowls’do, in good; supply (tnere being large quantities of damaged grain in Canterbury) 2s 5d to 2s lOd ; feed barley, 2s 3d ; maize, 4s 9d ; beans, 3* 9d ; pease, 3s 3d ; pearl barley, L2O. # Pollard and bran are in unusually heavy winter demand, ami supplies being limited, their respective prices, L 5 and L 4 10s, are very firm. There is a deal of speculation in potatoes in the South, in anticipation of higher rates; values here mav be quoted at 65s to 70s. Prime onions are scarce at L 7 10s. Bacon- and hams, new cure, have declined per lb ; general demand for Christchurch cure at 9Jd. Cheese, 4|d ; salt butter, BJd to 9d ; honey. 5d ; eggs, scarce at 2* fid per d**z ; turkeys, inquired for at 12s per pair ; geese, 6s fid ; ducks, 4s ; fowls, 3a fid. As the fruit trade has been affected by the Inclement weather, and prices are very low in consequence, it would be unfair to make quotations : better prospects are looked for. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the. week Sales : Gear Meat, Gos_ (75s paid) ; Land Mortgage, 24s ; National Insurance, 19s. Quotations —Banks \ New Zealand, L2I ; National, 57s ; Colonial, 425. Insurance New Zealand, 78s South British, 46s ; National, 19s; Union, 22s 9J ; Standard, 12s 9J ; Colonial, fid ; Equitable, Is 3d; New Zealand Accident, 4s fid; Accident Association, 2s Id. Mis-cellaneous-Loan and; Mercantile, L 5 2s fid; Land Mortgage, 24s ; National Mortgage, 23s fid ; New Zealand Shipping, 57a 6d; Uiiion Steam, Lll 10s; Mosgiel Woollen, L 4 ; Kainpoi, L 25 ; New Zealand Drug, 17s ; Napier Gas, Ll2 ; Wanganui Gas, Ll2 ; Westport Coal, 12s fid ; Wellington Trust and’ Loan, L6;4s; Equitable Building, L 6 5s ; Wellington Gas, 1.16 10s and L 8 ss. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report the following returns of amalgam from the Keefton mines for the week : Keep-it-Dark, 6170 z : Inkerman. IS2 *z. The United Alpine and Welcome returns not in yet. Messrs France Bros, repoit wages as follows : —Carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers. 12s; painters and glaziers, 9s to 10s ; plumbers and gaa* fitters, 9s to 10s; blacksmiths, 9s to '10s; labor and pick and shovel men, 7s to 9s; draymen, 42s to 50s; coachmen, 30s to 335; grooms,- 20s to 40s; -storemen, 35s t 0,505; gardeners, 7s .to 8s; hotelmen, 20s to 40s; cooks, 25s to 60s; female do, 16s to 355; housemaids, 10s to 20s ; general servants, 10s to 16s; nur-egirD, 5s to 10s ; barmaids, 25a to 80s; milkmen, 15s to 25s ; farm bands, 15s to 25s ; bfiys, 6s to 12s; married couples, L7O to L9O. There is a scarcity of work for men just now, but f r females it is more plentiful. We have married couples, station hands, and a few good, housemaids seeking places.