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  2. RAILWAYS.

    The Railway Commissioners issued a statement yesterday to the effect that the rapidly rising expenditure which was shown as the main feature of railway financial operations ...

    Article : 317 words
  3. MINING.

    The position of holders of lead and tin interests in the share market became worse yesterday, the fall in quotations for these metals being unchecked. The price of lead at ...

    Article : 710 words
  4. COMMERCIAL.

    Business in the wholesale grocery trade continues steady. The hot weather has had the effect of reducing stocks of several lines of tinned fish, and inter-house inquiries have been ...

    Article : 311 words
  5. FINANCIAL.

    The spurt given to business in the United States by the spread of the time-payment system in now considered to have finished. It could last only until the weekly resources ...

    Article : 287 words
  6. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

    The investment market moved sluggishly yesterday, and light transactions were tho order of the day. In face of this, prices were well-sustained. Business in Commonwealth ...

    Article : 716 words
  7. FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 words
  8. INTERSTATE EXCHANGES.

    To-day's sales included:- Commonwealth Bonds, 5 per cent. (1928), £101/17/5; 3½ per cent. (1931), £100/10/; 6 per cent. (December, 1930), £102, £101/17/6; 6 per cent. (March, ...

    Article : 264 words
  9. DRIED FRUIT SALES.

    The chairman of the Commonwealth Dried Fruits Control Board advises that the sales of Australian dried fruits in Great Britain recorded with the London agency of the board ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. TEACHERS' COLLEGE.

    The following girls, having gained the Home Economics Diploma at the conclusion of their three years' Technical College course, have now been admitted as scholarship holders at the Sydney Teachers' ...

    Article : 142 words
  11. LONDON METAL QUOTATIONS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 words
  12. ILL EFFECTS OF HASTY LEGISLATION.

    The north-western portion of Victoria was very badly affected by the drought of last year. Parliament of the State in the closing weeks of last session, with the intention ...

    Article : 260 words
  13. FEDERAL LAND TAX.

    The matter of securing the abolition of the Federal land tax will form one of the main items for consideration by the annual conference ot the Associatod Chambers of ...

    Article : 360 words
  14. YESTERDAY'S CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 962 words
  15. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

    Quotations of shares of Australian mining companies to-day included:- B.H. Proprietary. 22/4; B.H. North. 79/8; B.H. South, 42/6; Hampden Cloncurry, 11/10½; ...

    Article : 86 words
  16. BREADSTUFFS.

    Buyers' limits yesterday for growers' bagged lots were on the basis of 5/1 ex trucks Sydnoy, equivalent to 4/5. at country stations. Farmers continued to sit back, and did not meet the ...

    Article : 156 words
  17. NOTES.

    Takua[?]a Valley Co.'s dredge worked 80 hours during the first half of February, and turned over 17,100 cubic yards for a recovery of 5½ tons tin oxide. The dredge was stopped for ...

    Article : 269 words
  18. EXPORTS FROM THE STATE.

    The table of exports from the State during January, forwardod by the Collector of Customs, Mr. W. H. Barkley, shows a heavier selling of wool than in the previous January. ...

    Article : 241 words
  19. PIG SALES.

    About 1000 pigs Were forward at the Abattoir Saleyards yesterday. Porkers made up the major portion of the supply, but backfatters were fairly well represented. The general quality was fair. The usual ...

    Article : 107 words
  20. OVERSEA MARKET CABLES,

    The Bradford market is exceedingly firm, but there is only a small amount of business. DOMINION FRUIT SHIPMENTS. ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. CARGOES AND FUTURES.

    Wheat cargoes were firm to-day, and most quotations advanced /1 to /l½. Parcels in firm request, were /3 dearer. Liverpool futures closed:—March, 9/11[?] per ...

    Article : 42 words
  22. MELBOURNE LIVE STOCK SALES.

    In the fat sheep market to-day prices ranged 4/ to 6/ per head in advance of those ruling a fortnight ago. In the latter part of the market demand was not so animated. Quotations: Prime crossbred and ...

    Article : 193 words
  23. HOLIDAY IN CHICAGO.

    The wheat market was closed in Chicago to-day, owing to a holiday. ...

    Article : 20 words
  24. AUSTRALIA HOUSE.

    A complaint that he was discourteously treated by members of the staff at Australia House, London, was made to-day by Mr. N.P. Hillery, a pastoralist, with extensive interests ...

    Article : 418 words
  25. GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

    Prices, except where otherwise stated, are for distributing lots. Baking powder, in 11b tins 18/ to 20/, in 12oz tins 14/6 to 16/, 8oz tins 10/6, in 4oz tins 6/6 dozen. ...

    Article : 497 words
  26. PRODUCE.

    Hen eggs continued in good demand among city dairy produce houses yesterday, while sales of mediums and pullets, hithe[?] slow, were improving as supplies ot the first-grade ...

    Article : 1,647 words
  27. INTERSTATE EXCHANGES.

    To-day's sales and quotations included:— Silver-lead: Amalgamated Zinc, 11/11, b 11/9, s 12/; Broken Hill Prop., 28/7, 23/7½, b 23/7, s 23/8; Block 14, ord., b 2/2, s 2/6; do., pref., b 5/4, s 6/3: ...

    Article : 176 words
  28. HOMEBUSH TRUCKINGS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 words
  29. KURRI KURRI CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY.

    Accounts of the Kurri Kurri Co-oporative Society, Ltd., for the half-year ended November 22, 1927, disclose a profit ot £26,249, of which £23,327 was allocated as a, rebate to ...

    Article : 170 words
  30. RAILWAY LIGHTING.

    The Railway Commissioners were severely criticised at the last meeting of the Cabra matta and Canley Vale Council for their refusal of the council's request that, in view ...

    Article : 179 words
  31. PARRAMATTA FERRY.

    A deputation representing the Upper Parramatta River League waiting on the Assistant Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) yesterday regarding the Sydney Ferries Company's ...

    Article : 148 words
  32. COMPANY NEWS.

    Lieutenant-Colonel T. L. F. Rutledge has been appointed a director of the Permanent Trustee Co. of N.S.W., Ltd., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. A. G. Milson. ...

    Article : 363 words
  33. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 292 words
  34. INTERSTATE MARKETS.

    At Roma-street to-day lucerne chaff sold 4/ tO 6/, potatoes 4/ to 5/, and maize 2/8 to 3/2. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Wheat, 5/3 to 5/3½; new flour, £12/2/6 to £12/7/6; ...

    Article : 88 words
  35. TEMPE-EAST HILLS RAILWAY.

    To protest asainst a portion of the survey of the proposod railway from Tempe to East Hills, a deputation, introduced by Mr. Arkins, M.L.A., waited on the Minister for Works and ...

    Article : 153 words
  36. CHINESE ARRESTED.

    Nine arrests were made yesterday afternoon when Sergeant Harding and Constable Carson, of Central Police Station, raided premises in Little Hay-street, city. They found several ...

    Article : 75 words
  37. WOOL SALES.

    Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange. Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,805 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, ...

    Article : 1,551 words
  38. VISIT OF THE REV.[?]UJINAKADA

    The Rev. Ju[?] Nakada, of the Japan Holiness Church, will be the principal speaker of the intercessory service at the Town Hall at mid-day to-day. In the evening he will deliver an ...

    Article : 138 words
  39. LATE MR. M. WENKE.

    Probate has been granted of the will of the late Mr. Martin Wenke, of Castlereagh-street, Sydney, hotelkeeper, who died on November 29 last, leaving an estate of the ...

    Article : 79 words
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