A large volume of business was effected on Change yesterday at firm prices. Port Jack[?]on Steam rose /6, Toohey's Brewery /3, and Sydney Hydraulic 1/, other sales being at late ...
Article : 411 wordsIn reply to a question in the Senate to-day, the Vice-President of the Executive Council, Senator Best, said the Government was aware of the total absence of railways in or to ...
Article : 138 wordsA deputation of citizens last night inter-viewed the City Council, and questioned the legality of the council's rates, especially with regard to the cost of lighting the city. The ...
Article : 89 wordsDr. Wollaston, the Comptroller-General of Customs, was waited upon by representative importers, at the Sydney Custom-house yesterday, who asked that the orders recently ...
Article : 170 wordsThe long delay in securing the sanction of the different States to the M.L.A. [?]Citizens' amalgamation scheme shows how necessary it is that uniform Federal legislative should be ...
Article : 408 wordsMembers of the Pharmacy Board, introduced by Mr. Thomas, M.L.A., interviewed the Chief Secretary yesterday respecting the Sale of Poisons Bill introduced into the ...
Article : 225 wordsA list of the successful tenderers for the supplies of coal, coke, and firewood for the Public Service for the year 1908-9 is published in the "Government Gazette," dated June 3. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir,—Replying to a letter published in your issue of May 30, your correspondent, who writes under the nom-de-plume "The Case for the Horse." criticises the accuracy of my ...
Article : 560 wordsThe Stores Supply and Tender Board notify in the "Gazette" that the tenders of Mcllrath's Limited, have been accepted for the supplies of butter to the u[?]dermentioned for the month of June:—Hospital for ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Australian Metal Company, Ltd., have received a cable stating that the average price of fine silver in London for May was /26¼ per ounce standard; lead (soft Spanish), ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Comptroller-General of Customs notifies that claims received under the rebate schedule to the tariff may now be paid, provided that such be within the terms of the items in the schedule, as now worded, ...
Article : 116 wordsSales were made of Adelaide wheat yesterday at 4/6¼, ex wharf, Sydney, wharfage paid. There was a good deal more wheat offering from Adelaide owing to the London market being cabled as easier, ...
Article : 164 wordsThe residents along the Milson's Point railway line as far as Chastwood have repeatedly endeavoured to induce the Railway Commissioners to imporve the time-table, and quite recently at a public meeting ...
Article : 331 wordsImporters of wire netting agree with the expressed opinion that, if Lysaghts, the local manugacturers, have had to dismiss men, it has been due to the want of trade. But they ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 254 wordsDifferent life insurances offices have a varying appreciation of mortgages as a safe and profitable investment for their funds. The question as to the desirableness of such ...
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Advertising : 696 wordsSir,—I notice that there has been much controversy in the papers regarding the speed of motor cars in the city. Possibly it is not generally known here that some two years ...
Article : 174 wordsBar Bllvor is quoted to-day 2/0 5-16 per ounced standard, 1-16d higher. VISIBLE WHEAT SUPPLY. The American visible supply of wheat and ...
Article : 185 wordsDuring the weck before the mail left the following steamers had brought to London and Liverpool refrigerated produce from Australia and New Zealand:—Afric, Walpara, ...
Article : 136 wordsSir,—The traffic in Sydney streets is not a circumstance to that in London, and it seems an anomaly that a spped limit of six miles an hour should be imposed upon motor cars ...
Article : 515 wordsSecond-class securities are meeting with more demand on the Stock Exchange just now on account of the exceedingly low return from those regarded as gilt-edged. ...
Article : 469 wordsIn the Queen Victoria Markets to-day the following quotations ruled for fruits:—Almonds /6 to /8 per 1b, apples 4/ to 9/ per case, oranges 6/ to 8/ ditto, lemons 7/ to 8/6 ditto, melons (preserving) 2/6 to 5/ ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company, Ltd., John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Ltd., Hill, Clark, and Co., Now ...
Article : 179 wordsHaving regard to the fact that quotations for currants in London are still 2/ to 4/ below those of last year, a comparison of the stocks of 1907 and 1908 calls for attention. At ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 wordsGoldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London house, under Wednesday's date:—"Tallow.—Since our last report the market for mutton and beef has advanced /6 per cwt. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe wheat market was quiet and unchanged at 4/ for farmers' lots. Sellers of parcels wanted 4/3 ½; but no business took place. Flour had no inquiry, the price being nominally £9/15/. Sellers are ...
Article : 251 wordsSub-Inspector Sawtell says he gave permission to the bakers to work on Sunday; but in any case he will not take further action unless he receives instructions from Sydney. ...
Article : 117 wordsFor tho sale of June 8, 287 sheep vans and 123 cattle waggons, and for that of June 11, 226 sheep vans and 100 cattle waggons. Order books closed for cattle waggons up to and including the market of June 2, ...
Article : 64 wordsThere was still a fair amount of business transacted in the "street," and prices for all commodities were practically unaltered. Chaff, which had arrived in large quantities lately, was selling readily. Large ...
Article : 1,601 wordsTea,—Private cablegrams from Colombo stated that Wednesday's sales indicated a steady market for all kinds fo teas. Notwithstanding the poorness of some of the offerings prices ruled fairly firm. It was ...
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Advertising : 346 wordsOut of 22,692 sheep (including lambs), balloted for sale iron 75 consignors, only 10,978 head were penned The consignments included four drafts ranging from 1000 to 1800 head; the bulk, how ever, were in lots ...
Article : 2,058 words[?]s and quotations:—Bank of Adelaide, £7/10/[?], b £7/10/6, s £7/11/6. BRISBANE, Thursday. Quo[?]ations:—Queensoland Trustee, b 6/2, s 6/5; ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,—I road with great pleasure "The Case for the Horse and the Pedestrian's" letter in Saturday's "Herald," re motor cars, and quite agree with every word he says, ...
Article : 240 wordsThe possibillity of our having Commonwealth old-age pensions in the near future once more raises the whole subject of how best to provide for the old age of the needy. In ...
Article : 280 wordsSince the abolition on imported wire nettings, and the subsequent reduction made by Lysaghts, there has been considerable coinpotition in this section of the mercantile ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 5 Jun 1908, Page 9
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