The accounts of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Co. show a balance for the year of £100,305. The report of the directors states that during the year the insurance fund has ...
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Advertising : 143 wordsThe following were the wholesale rates at the fruit market to day:—Apples, good to choice eating, 9s to 15s; ditto, cooking, 9s to 11s; Tasmanian, 9s to 11s. Good to choice ...
Article : 89 wordsBarley dull, English 4s to 4s 2d, new season's latter price; Cape, nominal, 3s. Oats quiet and steady, old milling scarce, 2s 6d to 23 7d. Maize inactive, flat red 4s 3d to 5s. ...
Article : 78 wordsMessrs. Paterson, Laing and Bruce, Australian merchants, after transferring £26,000 from the taxation reserve account, and £45,000 from the general reserve, have £61,562 to be ...
Article : 53 wordsWheat firmer, merchants paying 4s 8½d to 4s 8¾d for growers' lots for December delivery, and 4s 7¼d to 4s 7½d for January. Wheat is delivering freely and millers expect ...
Article : 128 wordsSales:—Copper Mount Morgan 12s 3d. Silver Broken Hill Proprietary 27s. British Broken Hill (old) 24s 7½d, 24s 6d. South Broken Hill 27s 4½d, 24s 6d. North ...
Article : 51 wordsThe London wool sales were postponed to-day owing to the fog. On the Bradford market business was quieter, quotations tending in the favour of ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), in reply to Mr. Watkins, said that the ...
Article : 433 wordsThe underwriters receive 83 per cent. of the South African loan of £5,000,000 at 6 per cent., issued at 96. ...
Article : 25 wordsEggs, hens', new laid, 2s (graded). 1s 11d (ungraded); pullets'. 1s 6d; northern rivers, south coast and railways. 1s 5d, 1s 6d; duck eggs, new laid, 1s 8d to 1s 10d; by the case, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe following are the foreign rates of exchange on London:—Paris, 57.10 francs to the £1: Stockholm 16.97 kroner; Christiania, 28.03 kroner; Copenhagen, 21.67 kroner; ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the live stock market to-day 27,000 fat sheep were yarded. The supply proved within requirements, and the reneral tone of the market was brisk and prices, ruled decidedly ...
Article : 187 wordsThe annual report and statement of accounts of Henry Jones Co-operative Ltd. for the year ended 31st October, 1921, have just come to hand. The earnings in Australia ...
Article : 820 wordsOne of the leading mainland lea houses, writing to a Hobart merchant under date 26th November, deals with the prospect of the tea market as follows:—"We trust your ...
Article : 271 wordsThe quotation for tin ore at Launceston yesterday was 28s. 6d. per unit, being an increase of 6d. on the previous day's quotation. ...
Article : 28 wordsMagnet Silver Mine report for week ended November 23:—No. 14 Level: Main crosscut advanced 27ft. for the week, making total distance of 340ft. from main shaft. The ...
Article : 94 wordsAs was only to be expected, "house full" was hoisted early last night at His Majesty's on the occasion of the screening of the "Old Curiosity Shop," and ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Lunacy Commission of Inquiry has, during the past two days, heard the evidence of Walter Edward Courthope, solicitor, of Northam. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Australian Metal Exchange reports the London Metal Exchange (middle) quotations of November 28 as follows:- Copper.—Standard, spot, per ton, £67 8s. ...
Article : 242 wordsThe monthly return of Tasmania's direct oversea trade, as distinct from inter-State trade, prepared by the Government Statistician, shows that the imports in October were ...
Article : 485 wordsThe last of the valedictory gatherings in Sydney in honour of Sir Joseph Cook and Lady Cook took place to-day, when more than 200 ...
Article : 359 wordsFamous detectives, retained at big fees to protect Wall-street financial institutions, have learned that prevention is better than cure. If a clerk on a ...
Article : 153 wordsThe State Treasurer (Mr. Lang) delivered his budget speech in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon. He said that on the same basis as last year, ...
Article : 561 wordsThe Australian picture, "Silks and Saddles," has been very enthusiastically received by unusually large audiences at the Strand. The final screenings are ...
Article : 117 wordsGold.—New Langi Logan b 8s, Tasmania b 5d, s 6½d. 7d. Silver and Copper.—Broken Hill Proprietary b 26s 3d, 27s 6d, s 28s, 29s. Broken ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Mayoress (Mrs. R. Eccles Snowden) will open the Y.M.C.A. carnival tonight at the association's rooms, corner Liverpool and Argyle streets. Each ...
Article : 126 wordsThat there are about 40 week-end places, all built of wood, and surround ed by thick scrub, scattered on the mountain side, and that in the event ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 wordsGold.—Tasmania b 5[?], s 7d Bendigo Amalgamated b 2s, s 2s 5d. Silver and Copper.—Broken Hill Proprietary b 26s 6d, s 30s. Magnet b 4s 7d, s ...
Article : 250 wordsMr. Thomas J. Confoy, governing director of the Southern Cross Assurance Company Limited is now in Hobart, completing negotiations with the Government in connection ...
Article : 108 wordsAn old age pensioner named John Collins, aged 70, was blown to pieces by a charge of gelignite at the Salvation Army Home, Guildford, to-day. The ...
Article : 142 wordsForage.—Six trucks of chaff were offered at the railway sales yesterday, all of which found buyers. The best quality Algerian realised £4 3o to £4 9s. per ton, and medium ...
Article : 142 wordsIn the share market to-day Barrier storks came into decidedly better lavour British Broken Hill advanced to 25s 6d, and for South Broken Hill the higher ...
Article : 382 wordsThe Associated Agents report at the Newstead fat stock sales to-day, owing to the non-arrival of the Flinders Island steamer, there was a light yarding of sheep ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 30 Nov 1921, Page 3
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