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  2. ENGINEERS.

    Reference to the trouble with the engineers at the factory of Lysaght Bros. and Co., Ltd., was made yesterday by the managing director (Mr. R. Champ). ...

    Article : 480 words
  3. MINING.

    Prices for silver-lead and tin interests in yesterday's share market followed the trend in the respective metal quotations. Barriers reached higher figures, though of the mining ...

    Article : 670 words
  4. GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

    Prices, except where otherwise stated, are for distributing lots. Sugar, IA, ½-ton lots, net cash £37/6/8 per ton; credit terms, £38/17/10 per ton. ...

    Article : 481 words
  5. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

    High-class securities were in strong demand in the investment market yesterday, resulting in recent advances being added to, commonwealth 6 per cent, loans made further ...

    Article : 750 words
  6. FINANCIAL.

    The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York is asking its policy holders, including annuitants and holders of supplementary contracts to agree to a transfer of their policies ...

    Article : 539 words
  7. COMMERCIAL.

    In the wholesale grocery trade orders for the first of the month are coming in freely. Dates are selling very briskly, with a heavy demand for finest quality Khadrawl. Stocks ...

    Article : 282 words
  8. FURRED SKIN SALES.

    The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers report:— Furred Skins: Only small supplies were forward. All descriptions of kangaroo, wallaroo, and wallaby were in good demand at f[?]rm figures, while goalskins ...

    Article : 294 words
  9. INTERSTATE EXCHANGES.

    To-day's sales included:- Commonwealth bonds, 5 per cent. (1928), £100/7/6. £100,8/9, £1OO/1O/; 5½ per cent. (1911), £102/5/; 6 per cent, (Dec., 1930), £102/17/6; 6 per cent, (March, ...

    Article : 227 words
  10. INTERSTATE MARKETS.

    Wheat, growers' lo[?] 5/5 to 5/6; flour, bakers' lots £13/17/6; bran, £7/5/; pollard, £8/2/6; oats, 3/3; chaff £5/10/; butter, choice factory block 1/9¼, best separator 1/5 to 1/7, stores 1/2 to 1/4; cheese, new ...

    Article : 211 words
  11. PIG SALES.

    About 12[?]0 pigs wera forward at the Abattoir saleyards yesterday. These comprised all descriptions, but consisted chiefly of po[?]kers. The general quality was fair. The usual buyers were in attendance and ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. DRIED FRUIT SALES OVERSEA.

    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 or the board ...

    Article : 99 words
  13. COUNTRY STOCK SALES.

    At the Albury stock market to-day the sheep yarded totalled 1400. The fat sheep market opened firm for all prime quality sheep. Prices were about equal to late fates. Medium quality were casier. Merino ...

    Article : 225 words
  14. FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 words
  15. PRODUCE.

    In view of to-day being a holiday business was abnormally active among city dairy produce houses yesterday. Traders had to cope with quite a rush on new-laid eggs, and ...

    Article : 1,469 words
  16. YESTERDAY'S CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,054 words
  17. MOTOR 'BUSES.

    The Motor 'Bus Proprietors' Association has decided to petition the Premier with a request that the established line of 'bus routes should be allowed to continue under ...

    Article : 342 words
  18. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

    Quotations of shares of Australian mining companies to-day included:- B.H. Proprietary. 22/5½; B.H. North, 82/2; B.H. South, 40/10½; Hampden Cloncurry, 13/4½; ...

    Article : 82 words
  19. JAPANESE SILK.

    According to the latest cable received from Japan, raw silk is quoted at yen 1380.00 per picul, which is the same as last week's report. The silk piece goods market ...

    Article : 53 words
  20. LANDER OIL CAPITAL INCREASE.

    Shareholders of Lander Oil Field (Australia), Ltd., at an extraordinary meeting yesterday, unanimously Agreed to the increase in the company's capital proposed by the director[?] ...

    Article : 167 words
  21. EXPORT BUTTER TRADE.

    During the week ended April 21 the Commonwealth graders examined for export at Sydney 9954 boxes of butter, of which 9578 were salted, and 376 were unsalted. The ...

    Article : 40 words
  22. PRICE OF GOLD.

    Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cablas, at 84/10 per ounce fine, a decrease of /1½ on the price ru[?]ng since Thursday last. ...

    Article : 30 words
  23. BROOM MILLET AUCTIONS.

    The second series of auction sales of broom millet, organised by the Millett Growers' Association of Australia, was held at M[?]rpeth to-day. The first series was held in Sydney some months ago, when no bales ...

    Article : 194 words
  24. HARDSHIPS OF A MORATORIUM.

    Addressing shareholders of the Union Trustee Company of Melbourne yesterday Sir James Elder, who presided in the absence of the chairman (Mr. H. M. Strachan) referred ...

    Article : 170 words
  25. TARIFF ALTERATION—FILMS.

    The following alteration of the Customs tariff will operate as from 9 a.m. to-day:- Item 320 (c), (2), (B) films.—The general rate has been raised from /l½ to /2 per lineal ...

    Article : 35 words
  26. TARIFF DECISIONS.

    The fallowing approved decisions relating to the Customs Tariff, 1921-28, are announced:- The goods mentioned in the following paragraph ...

    Article : 180 words
  27. ORIOMO OIL, LIMITED.

    A radio message from the leader of the Oriomo Oil, Limited, expedition (Captain S. N. McLean), on the Oriomo concession, Papua, received in Sydney, states that a geological ...

    Article : 299 words
  28. ROMEBUSH TRUCKINGS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 words
  29. UNION TRUSTEE COMPANY.

    An impression of the progross of the Union Trustee Company was given to shareholders in Melbourne by Sir James Elder, who moved the adoption of the report and balance-sheet. The ...

    Article : 82 words
  30. WOMAN MOTORIST.

    Spectators again crowded the Central Summons Court yesterday for the resumed hearing of the case against Mrs. Lily Carlyle Levy, 39, who is charged with having driven a motor ...

    Article : 206 words
  31. LONDON METAL QUOTATIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 words
  32. OBITUARY.

    The death occurred on Saturday at Penrith ot Mrs. Elizabeth Easterbrook, in her eighty-first year. Mrs. Easterbrook is survived by three sons, one of whom was ...

    Article : 70 words
  33. STATE CONVERSION ISSUE.

    New South Wales ins[?]ribed stock amounting, to £391,511 bearing interest at the rate of 65 per cent, falls due on May 10. The Treasury is offering holders ...

    Article : 214 words
  34. MRS. B. M. FERGUSON.

    The funeral of Mrs. Beatrice Mary Ferguson, wife of Mr. Robert Given Ferguson, of Oceanavenue, Double Day, took place on Saturday afternoon at the South Head Cemetery. Canon ...

    Article : 131 words
  35. NOTES.

    Carpathia Tin-mining Company ha[?]led 118 tons ore in the past fortnight, and crushed 220 tons for a recovery of 6.81 tons concentrates. ...

    Article : 53 words
  36. BREADSTUFFS.

    There was silghtly more activity in the local wheat maret yesterday. Farmers sold bagged and store lots fairly freely on the basis of 5/7½ ex trucks, Sydney, equivalent ...

    Article : 201 words
  37. FALSE STATEMENT.

    At the Central Court yesterday Henry Richard Holmes was charged with having wilfully made a false statement in a declaration under the Invalid and Old Age Pensions ...

    Article : 132 words
  38. INTERSTATE EXCHANGES.

    To-day's sales and quotations included:- Silver-lead; Amaigamated Zine, b 12/7, s 12/11; Broken Hill Proprietary, 23/1[?], b 23/8, [?] 23/10; Block 14, ord., b 2/2, [?] 2/4; do, pref., b 5/7, s 6/3; Junction ...

    Article : 201 words
  39. TRADE WITH SWEDEN.

    Statistics quoted by the report of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce show that Australian imports of Swedish origin were in 1926-27 £1,817,290, and in 1925-26 £1,871,123, ...

    Article : 99 words
  40. MR. A. P. H. STEPHEN.

    Mr. Alfred Parish Hindmarsh Stephen, third son of the late Mr. George Milner Stephen and a grandson of the late Sir John Hindmarsh, died at his home at Pokolbin, near ...

    Article : 254 words
  41. NIGHTINGALE SUPPLY CO.

    Net profit of £4194 earned by the Nightingale Supply Co., Ltd., for the year ended December 31, comparee with £4130 for the previous year. Dividend, including interim, ...

    Article : 133 words
  42. BOGUS DOCTOR.

    At the Central Court yesterday, Arthur Henry Benstead, 43, described as a chemist, was fined £60 on a charge of having posed as a medical practitioner. On a further charge ...

    Article : 86 words
  43. CARGOES AND FUTURES.

    wheat cargoes were steady, with quotations rather higher to-day, but buyers were pa[?]sing A cargo ex Favell (Geelong, March /19 brought 55/[?] net, and another ex ...

    Article : 72 words
  44. EASTERN SUBURBS.

    The erection of a hospital in the eastern suburbs was urged upon the Minister for Health (Dr. Arthur) yesterday by a deputation. ...

    Article : 172 words
  45. AUCKLAND GAS DEBENTURES.

    The Auckland Gas Company recently invited applications for 6½ per cent, debentures, with a currency of seven years, to the amount of £200,000, of which £150,000 is required to ...

    Article : 77 words
  46. CHICAGO WHEAT OPTIONS.

    Chicago wheat options are quoted:—May, 154½ cents per bushel (down [?] cent); July, 155 cents (down ¼ cent); September, 151[?] cents (unchanged). ...

    Article : 29 words
  47. POLICE FORCE.

    The Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) made it clear yesterday that it was not proposed to absorb the whole of the 200 additional police in the metropolitan area, "Noweastle's ...

    Article : 53 words
  48. INTRUDER, CAPTURED.

    When a daughter of Sir Charles Statham was retiring to bed she saw a man peeping through the window. She warned her father, who went out and seized the man. A ...

    Article : 81 words
  49. OVERSEA MARKET CABLES.

    The Bradford market is unchanged, and tending to dullness. THE APPLE TRADE. The Victorian Shipment of apples by the ...

    Article : 61 words
  50. COMPANY NEWS.

    Sir George Elliott, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed 'o the local board for New Zealand of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., ...

    Article : 266 words
  51. ARNCLIFFE BUILDING VENTURE

    In the suit of Porter v Peacock, which was concluded before Mr. Justice Long Innes on Monday, his Honor dismissed the suit, with costs against the plaintiff. ...

    Article : 30 words
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