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  2. MINING.

    With two or three exceptions, mining shares accounted for an insignificant turnover yesterday. In keeping with a holding-off policy, price variations were moderate. Among ...

    Article : 596 words
  3. FINANCIAL.

    The half-yearly report of the Commonwealth Bank, forwarded by the governor, shows a total profit in all departments for the period ended December 31 last of £870,741. To ...

    Article : 830 words
  4. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

    A well-diversified turnover disclosed that the investment market retained generally firm conditions yesterday. However, irregularity developed in Commonwealth loans, lower ...

    Article : 879 words
  5. WOOL SALES.

    Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,174 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, ...

    Article : 1,655 words
  6. COMMERCIAL.

    Some improvement has been apparent in the movement of general merchandise since the beginning of the month, compared with the closing week of February. Indications are ...

    Article : 321 words
  7. THE BANK RETURN.

    A reduction of £500,000 in the notes issue is shown in the return of the Commonwealth Bank as at March 5 last. Each week since the commencement of the year has ...

    Article : 460 words
  8. BUTTER FOR EXPORT.

    During the week ended March 3 the Commonwealth graders examined for export at Sydney 11,324 boxes of butter, 9732 boxes being salted and 1592 unsalted. They also ...

    Article : 67 words
  9. LONDON METAL QUOTATIONS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 words
  10. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

    Quotations of shares of Australian mining companies to-day included:- B.H. Proprietary, 22/4; B.H. North, 80/4; B.H. South, 43/9; Hampden Cloncurry, 11/1½; ...

    Article : 86 words
  11. YESTERDAY'S CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 874 words
  12. TASMANIAN MINERAL PRODUCTION.

    Official figures place the total value of minerals produced in Tasmania last year at £1,621,027, of which copper provided £362,988, carbide £34,806, coal £99,000, cement £176,000, ...

    Article : 68 words
  13. BANK CLEARINGS.

    Clearings of the Sydney banks for the week ended March 5 totalied £23,675,498, as against £20,066,863 the previous week, and £24,105,896 for the corresponding week last year. ...

    Article : 160 words
  14. FURRED SKIN SALES.

    The Sydney Wool Selling Brokera report:—Furred skins: Only very small supplies were forward. All descriptions of kangaroo, wallaroo, wallaby, and goatskins were in good demand at a very firm level of ...

    Article : 306 words
  15. MUANG TIN.

    A circular to shareholders of Muang Tin, N.L., states that the chairman of directors, Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, who is at present in the East on the company's business, has ...

    Article : 177 words
  16. BREADSTUFFS.

    Wheat was steady yesterday. Buyers' general limits for growers' bagged lots were on the basis of 5/5½ ex trucks Sydney, equivalent to about 4/10 at country stations. Sellers were ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. PRICE OF GOLD.

    Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday, our correspondent cables, at 84/10½ per oz fine, a decrease of one-farthing on the price ruling since February 29. ...

    Article : 30 words
  18. COMPANY NEMS.

    The following companies have been registered, shares being of the value of £1 each:- Cragg's Service Station, Limited, capital ...

    Article : 330 words
  19. BROKERS' COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENT STOCK.

    The refusal of the Stock Exchange brokers to remit half of the brokerage ot any of the banks' holdings of the recent 5½ per cent. Commonwealth loan taken up by the banks ...

    Article : 242 words
  20. NOTES.

    Bundi Co.'s two dredges worked 1070 hours during February, turning over 156,000 cubic yards for a recovery of 77 tons tin oxide, the value of which was £11,263. The return for ...

    Article : 187 words
  21. CARGOES AND FUTURES.

    Wheat cargoes firmed /3 to /6 to-day in sympathy with North and South American markets, but buyers were pausing. Parcels were firmly held, but domand was ...

    Article : 58 words
  22. COUNTRY STOCK SALES.

    There were 1713 fat and store cattle and 70 pigs yarded at the regular border markets. There was a medium yarding of fat cattle. The demand was keen, with values in advance of last sales. Best bullocks ...

    Article : 341 words
  23. CHICAGO WHEAT OPTIONS.

    Chicago wheat options are quoted:—March, 136½ cents per bushel (down [?] cent); May, 137½ cents (down [?] cent); July, 135[?] cents (down [?] sent). ...

    Article : 33 words
  24. GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

    Prices are for distributing lots, except where otherwise stated. Axle grease: Australian, pale, 1lb tins 5/6 per dozen; 28lb tins, 52/6 per cwt; 58lb tins, 47/6 per cwt; dark, ...

    Article : 326 words
  25. PRODUCE.

    The advisory council of the Producers' Distributing Society has decided to raise the wholesale price of new-laid eggs by /2 per dozen from to-day, making nice graded lots ...

    Article : 1,322 words
  26. INTERSTATE EXCHANGES.

    To-day's sales and quotations included:- Silver-lead: Amalgamated Zinc, b 12/, s 12/3; Broken Hill Proprietary, b 23/6, s 23/8; Block 14, ord., b 2/2; ditto, pref., b 5/1; North B.H., 83/6, 83/3, 82/9, b 82/6, ...

    Article : 190 words
  27. HUDDART, PARKER.

    Profits of Huddart, Parker, Ltd., steamship owners, for the year 1927 were £143,006, compared with £141,063 for the previous year. Preference dividend of 6 per cent. accounted ...

    Article : 327 words
  28. CALF SALES.

    About 1200 calves were forward at the abattoir saleyards yesterday. These consisted chiefly of hobbies, and included a fair number of weighty calves on the plain side. Othewise the general quality was fair. ...

    Article : 84 words
  29. LONDON FINANCIAL CABLES

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 words
  30. MAITLAND MARKET.

    Good supplies were forward at the West Maitland produce sales to-day, but generally the market was unaltered for vegetables. Watermelons showed an advance, the warmer weather being responsible. Poultry ...

    Article : 183 words
  31. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 299 words
  32. OVERSEA MARKET CABLES.

    Stocks of rubber held in London at the close of February totalled 61,890 tons as against 65,882 tons at the end of January, and 63,104 tons at the close of 1927. ...

    Article : 96 words
  33. HOMEBUSH OFFERINGS AND TRUCKINGS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 words
  34. INTERSTATE EXCHANGES.

    To-day's sales included:—Commonwealth bonds, 5 per cent. (1928). £101/17/6; 5½ per cent. (1931), £100; 5½ per cent. (1931), £l00/17/6; 6 per cent. (Dec., 1930), £102/5/: 6 per cent. (March, 1930), ...

    Article : 323 words
  35. INTERSTATE MARKETS.

    Wheat, growers' lota 5/3; flour, bakers' lots, £13/7/6: bran, £6/15/; pollard, £7/7/6; oats. 3/3; chaff, £5/15/, on trucks, at Mile End (bags included); potatoes, 6/; onions, 12/; pines, 16/ to 18/; bauanas, ...

    Article : 246 words
  36. LATE MR. W. W. CAMPBELL.

    Probate has been granted of the will of the late Mr. William Webb Campbell, of Sydney, investor, who died on January 23 last, aged 66 years, leaving an estate ...

    Article : 124 words
  37. J. C. WILLIAMSON INCREASE.

    Shareholders of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., theatrical entrepreneur, will be asked at an extraordinary meeting, following the annual meeting, to consider resolutions for increasing ...

    Article : 276 words
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