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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7778, 10 May 1886, Page 2

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New Zealand T’i'vfeo Office, 'Saturday Evening. The Custbrfia dr.tfcs collected at the port of Wellington fob the week ending on Saturday 'amounted to L 4481 17s Id. Beer duty, LO7 16s 2d. i Messrs George Thomas and CV). , report! produce prices as follow t —'lnhere, have,.been considerable quantities 6f potatoes to this market of lute, ; which hue had the effect of making prices recede, and fer a time causing a perfect ,£lut': the samples are very irregular, aixd, a standard rule cannot,‘be given; we quote from L 3 jier ton ex shift. ’Okte are offering freely, and remain at last Quotations—2s Sd to 2s 6d -per bushel; oatmeal, dull at Ll2 ; black oats, 2s 9d to 3s. Good whole fowls’ wheat is ejprfcedingly Scarce and hard to obtain; stocks of this class seem » to have become exhausted we quote $3 6d ’por bushel, and for broken samples 3a 3d to 3a 4d. Wheatmeai, L 9 ,l6s ; pollard reftiklVis almost unobtainable, and.very -firrh kt L 6 ; bran fully supplied Ut L 5 15s. Tte following lines are unchangedI;.—LB 1 ;.—LB 15s to LlO ; maize, L 4 ; beans, Ss Cd to 3s 9d ; peas, 4s 6d ; barley, 2s 3d'; Onions, L 6 10s to L 7 ; chaff, L 3 10a to EllOs; salt butter, 9d to Did; fresh butter, Is ; eggs, 2s 3d ; hams and bacon, 81 to B£d ; cheese, 5d to 6d; carrots, Swede turnips £nd ( mangolds, 50s per ton; pearl barley, Jbl7. The [ fruit market is not overstocked, ks of late have been considerably 'chrtkilcd, in consequence ut the low rates 'tohrbh have been ruling for some tittle past. Good eating and cooking apples knd pekrs are asked for at increased bates. Other fruits also meet with a better detakn.'d. Poultry is ruling as follow ; TurkeVn, 3a to 9a; geese, 6s ; ducks, 3a 6d; and fowls, 3a per pair. At the usual monthly stock sale at the Lower Hutt a quantity of horses, cows, and young stock were moved off at fairly remunerative prices.” Messrs Arthur WarbUrton and Co. report for the week-Banks—New Zealand, L2O 15a, cum, div.; National, 38a; Colonial, 42s6d> Insurance—New Zealand, 74a ; South British, 35s ; National, 16a ; Union, 21s 6d ; Standard, 14s 3d; Colonial, ss; Equitable, Is 2d; NOw Zealand Accident, 4s 6d; Accident Association, 7d. Miscellaneous Lokn ahd Mercantile, 90s t Land Mortgage, 22s 6d; National Mortgage, 20s-; NOW Zealand Shipping, 30a; Union. Ste ‘ra> Ll2; Mosgiel Woollen, 81a 6d; Kaiapoi, 90s; New Zaland Drug, 15s 9d* Napier Gas, Ll 3 5s ; Wanganui Gas, Llo, cum, div.; Westport Coal, 2s 6d; Wellington Trust and Loan, L 6 7a 6d; Equitable Building, L 6 10s ; Wellington Gas, L2O and LlO ; Manawatu Railway, l?a to 18a ; Gear Meat, 62s 6d. . Messrs Arthur Warhurton a'Aa Co. report the following returns- of kniklgatn from the West Coast mines for tho week Welcome, Gs3oz ; Keep*it-DaJik> 84loz ; and666oz of gold from the United Alpine Company, with Is dividend.

Mcs-jts Cooper and Stewart report wages as follows : Carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; painters and glamors, 9s ; plumbers and gasfitters, 10s; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s; labor and pick and shovel men, 7s 5 drbym'eVi, 42a to 50s ; coachmen, SOs to 35s ; grboms, 20s to SOs; storemen, 30s to 50s; gardeners, 7a; hotelmen, 20s to 40s; cooks, 25s to 40s ; female do, 15a to 25shousemaids, 12s to 18s ; general servants, 0s to 15s ; nursegirls, 5s to 10s > barmaids, 25s to SOs ; 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. We have had a very busy week.