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 wordsThe 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 wordsA well-diversified turnover disclosed that the investment market retained generally firm conditions yesterday. However, irregularity developed in Commonwealth loans, lower ...
Article : 879 wordsWool 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 wordsSome 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 wordsA 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 wordsDuring 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsQuotations 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; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 874 wordsOfficial 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 wordsClearings 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsWheat 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 wordsGold 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 wordsThe following companies have been registered, shares being of the value of £1 each:- Cragg's Service Station, Limited, capital ...
Article : 330 wordsThe 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 wordsBundi 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 wordsWheat 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 wordsThere 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 wordsChicago wheat options are quoted:—March, 136½ cents per bushel (down [?] cent); May, 137½ cents (down [?] cent); July, 135[?] cents (down [?] sent). ...
Article : 33 wordsPrices 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 wordsThe 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 wordsTo-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 wordsProfits 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 wordsAbout 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. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsGood 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 ...
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Advertising : 299 wordsStocks 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. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsTo-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 wordsWheat, 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 wordsProbate 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 wordsShareholders of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., theatrical entrepreneur, will be asked at an extraordinary meeting, following the annual meeting, to consider resolutions for increasing ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 8 Mar 1928, Page 13
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