The invention of a portable seismometer, or[?] earthquake measuring instrument, cheap, accutrate, and easily set up, was announced by Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of the Geophysical ...
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Article : 1,273 wordsThe following new companies have been registered, shares being of the value of £1 each:- C. and H. Mullard, Ltd. Capital, £20,000. ...
Article : 148 wordsTo-days sales on 'Change included:—Commonwealth Bonds, 4½per cent. (1925), £95/12/6, £95/15/, £96; 4½ per cent (1927), £94/15/, £94/12/6, £95/5/; (1927), £91/12/6, £94/15/; 5 per cent. (1928), £95/10/; 6 per ...
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Article : 206 wordsLost week the Tongkah Harbour dredges recovered 6 tons of tin oxide, three tons being from Harbour dredging and two tons from Bangtao. In its first run since resuming work after having ...
Article : 107 wordsThe feature during the past few days has been the heavy weight of Australian sultanas that has been purchased and cleared from the docks and warehouses for home consumption, ...
Article : 176 wordsBroken Hill South, Ltd., has declared a dividend of 1/6 per share, payable on February 15. Transfer books close on January 18. The distribution, which is the ninth of the present company, will absorb ...
Article : 39 wordsApparently, evasion of income tax is not so difflcult in Great Britain as it is in Australia. One form of it has been lately before the Courts, and its legality has been affirmed. A ...
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Article : 321 wordsThe Acting Collector of Customs (Mr. H. Duncan Brown) advises that the export sugar rebate on Australian sugar used in locally manufactured goods exported from the ...
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Article : 209 wordsThere was very little change to report in connection with trade in the dairy produce section of Sussex-street yesterday. The supply of eggs forwarded was more than ...
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Article : 604 wordsFound guilty of assaulting Constable Edward Sydney Chambers while in the execution of his duty, Michael McNally, 88, was, at the Central Police Court yesterday, semtenced to two months' imprisonment. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsSir,—In the lecture at Oxford by Dr. R. R. Marett, which you publish, we have another example of the result of bringing academic learning to bear upon a subject which more ...
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Article : 74 wordsThe combined prospectus of the South Australian loan and the Tasmanian loan offered in London on November 26 is interesting as an instance of how costs of floating loans may ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 Jan 1924, Page 11
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