The Minister for Works (Mr. Ball) said yesterday that he had called for a report concerning the dismissal of a number of gangers and employees on the Chichester pipeline ...
Article : 284 wordsThe death took place yesterday morning at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Mr. William Robert Thomas Eggleton, who for nearly half a century was closely identified ...
Article : 198 words[?]terday's investment market was note[?]y for a heavy turnover, and the increas[?]tivity brought with it numerous fluctua[?] There was a strong demand for ...
Article : 684 wordsDiscussion which has taken place in the Federal Parliament on currency matters makes it plain that reconsideration of those problems is due. The risk in instituting an ...
Article : 672 wordsBusiness was uneventful amongst dairy produce houses yesterday. Eggs were firmer at late rates, but buyers showed no anxiety to pay the additional /1 per dozen charged for ...
Article : 1,417 wordsConversions of the South Australian loan of £1,650,300 amounted to £960,000, our London correspondent cables, and cash applications to £900,000. The amount has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsParcels are steady, with a tendency to be dearer on improved demand. Australian wheat afloat is quoted at 46/6 per quarter, that to arrive early in May at 46/3 per quarter. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Gold Producers' Association reports that the price of gold on Tuesday was 95/11 per ounce, fine, unchanged since the previous Friday. At this price the pound sterling is ...
Article : 39 wordsA slight recovery in tin and copper helped to relieve the weakness in those metals interests in the share market yesterday. Barriers remained depressed, lead and spelter ...
Article : 528 wordsThe wool sales closed steady with competition somewhat quieter. During the series, the Continent was the chief support for merinos. Crossbreds were in the keenest ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Sydney Permanent Freehold Land and Building Co., Limited, has announced a special dividend of 1/ per share, payable from yesterday. ...
Article : 24 wordsOn the Stock Exchange to-day, middle quotations of Australian stocks were as follow:- Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co., 4 per cent. debenture stock, £74/7/6; City of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe death occurred yesterday at Pennant Hills of the Rev. James Hendry, M.A., Presbyterian minister at Berry. Mr. Hendry was a son of Mr. Peter Hendry, of Assleck, ...
Article : 117 wordsTrade in heavy chemicals maintains a fair volume, and some bulky parcels have changed hands of late. Prices show little or no change on the week, although a line of liquid ...
Article : 336 wordsThe New South Wales Minister for Works' and Railways (Mr. Ball) considers that a conference between the contracting parties to decide a proposal to increase the height of ...
Article : 176 wordsThe death occurred at Napier, New Zealand, on March 20 of Mr. Charles Howard Edwards, who was well known in Sydney. The late Mr. Edwards was born in Capetown, South Africa, ...
Article : 204 wordsAcids: Boracic, 80/ per cwt: carbolic, English 98 per cent. in 5-gallon lots, 7/ to 7/6, in single-gallon lots, 8/6; Astralian, 8/6 per gallon. Citric, 1/7[?] to 1/8; oxalic, 1/3; tartaric, 1/5[?] to 1/6½; cream of tartar, ...
Article : 185 wordsOn the Stock Exchange to-day B.H. Proprietary shores sold at 26/4[?] to 26/9; North B.H. 76/10½ to 77/9, B.H. South 55/ to 55/7[?], Hampden 6/. Mount Lyell 22/7[?] to 22/10½, Waihi Gold Mines 30/3, Waihi ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Stanley R. Rowley, the one-time champion foot-runner, died suddenly at his home at Manly on Tuesday morning. He was at work as usual on Monday, but feeling ...
Article : 379 wordsA protest against the misrepresentation of Australian life in the Press of New Zealand was made by Alderman W. P. M'Elhone, a former Lord Mayor of Sydney, who, together ...
Article : 282 wordsLast week the New White Crystal battery ran 82 hours on ore from Crosby's Hill, crushing 166 tons for a production of 1½ ton of concentrates. Ore broken ready for the mill amounts to 155 tons, of which 150 ...
Article : 285 wordsWheat, firm, growers' lots 4/8[?], parcels, nominal, 4/6 to 4/6[?]; flour, dull, £11/15/ in bakers' lots; mill offal firm; bran £7/7/6, pollard £7/2/6; barley, dull, more or less nominal, 4/2; English malting ...
Article : 356 wordsThis year in the Sydney market France has been the largest purchaser of wool, displacing the United Kingdom, which was a long way ahead the previous year. The United ...
Article : 411 wordsThe following tariff decisions relating to the Customs tarin have been issued by the Customs Department:- Electrical Appliances and Materials.—Bushings, ...
Article : 350 wordsOfficial support along practical lines is being extended to foster the opal industry of the Stats. On the recommendation of the Prospecting Board the Minister for Mines (Mr. Fitzpatrick) has authorised the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 522 wordsAccording to advices received in Sydney from New Guinea, a syndicate, composed principally of operators from the wireless station, recently decided to try reef-mining near the Busal leases, from which a fair ...
Article : 131 wordsMessrs. J. M. Ashworth, A. R. Stamp, and E. Dillon, Victorian railway officials, returned from America by the Makura on Tuesday, after inspecting the American railway systems. ...
Article : 128 wordsThe funeral of Mrs. Clive Anderson, eldest daughter of Mr. T. J. Hagon and the late Mrs. Grace Hagon, took place in the Waverley Cemetery on Monday. Amongst those present ...
Article : 100 wordsWool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 6738 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, ...
Article : 835 wordsThe Acting Collector of Customs (Mr. H. Duncan Brown) advises that the export sugar rebate on Australian sugur used in locally manufactured goods exported from the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Ronpibon's Company's dredge, which began operations last month, recovered 12 tons of tin oxide during the second half of the month. Ground turned over was 20,000 cubic yards, so that the average value ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsThe gold yield for March was [?],300oz, worth £157,19[?], compared with 48,135oz, worth £188,225 in February. ...
Article : 26 wordsManly Council has decided to ask the local members of the State Parliament to support strongly the agitation for a reduction of the bridge rate, and to urge that the northorn ...
Article : 78 wordsTo-day's sales on 'Chance included:- Silver-Lead: Broken Hill Proprietary, b 2[?]/4½, s [?]/7[?] Block 10, 2/6; Block 14, pref., b 6/, s 7/; Block 14 ord., b 2/ s 3/6; Junction North, b 6/1, s 7/1; North, ...
Article : 209 wordsA meeting of creditors of Feldheim, Gotthelf, Limited, was held yesterday. A report was read from the liquidators, Messrs. Smith, Johnson, and Company, amplifying the ...
Article : 438 wordsIt was decided by the Water Board yesterday to inform the Department of Lands that the Board objected most strenuously to the proposal to transfer nine acres of the ...
Article : 183 wordsPreliminaries regarding the construction of the Spit bridge are well in hand, and an early start will be made in placing the piles in position. The Manly Council, desiring to take ...
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Advertising : 366 wordsThe works committee, of the Balmain Council has decided to recommend the council that an effort should be made to regulate heavy motor traffic in the municipality. This ...
Article : 108 wordsJean Burgess, a child of six years of age, was playing with matches at her home in Judge-lane, Waverley, yesterday morning, when her dress caught fire, severely burning ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Sydney Wool Selling Brokers report:- Furred Skins.—Grey and red kangaroo, wallaroo, and wallaby sold at unchanged figures, while goatskins were firmer. Foxskins: 2000 were forward. The supply ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Coroner yesterday held an inquiry at Ashford into the death of Ernest James Dixon, aged 31, a married man, with four children. Deceased, who was employed on Fraser's ...
Article : 81 wordsThere was not much animation in the wheat market yesterday. The price for parcels held at from 4/8 to 4/8[?] per bushel, one fair sized miller's lot passing at the former price. South ...
Article : 305 wordsAldermen Sautelle and Davison, of the Vaucluse Municipal Council, attended a meeting of the Manly Council to urge co-operation in regard to a ferry service from ...
Article : 77 wordsClearings of the Sydney banks for the week ended March 31 amounted to £15,158,712, compared with £17,152,400 for the previous week, and £8,905,507 for the corresponding week ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. F. C. Harcourt gave a lecture on flashlight portraiture at the Photographic Society's Hall, Elizabeth-street, on Tuesday night. He said that amateur work had been much ...
Article : 86 wordsA meeting of the Miners' Federation executive is to be held this morning to consider the decision of the chairman of the Coal Tribunal (Mr. Hibble), to refer the dispute in ...
Article : 70 words[?]ay's sales on 'Change included:—Commonwealth [?] 4½ per cent. (1925), £98/2/6; 4½ per cent. (1927), [?]; 5 per cent. (1927), £96/5/6, £96/5/; 6 per [?] 1930), £101/12/6; Adelaide Steamship, 20/9, 21/; ...
Article : 91 wordsCalves were in fairly heavy supply at the Abattoir saleyards yesterday. The pen[?]ings totalled about 950. Weighty calves and bobbies were about equal in number, and the general quality was fairly good, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 3 Apr 1924, Page 11
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