4 FEBRUARY 1928, page 32

Empire Development.

• I must congratulate the Hudson's Bay Company upon the quiet but steady progress made in the movement initiated some two years ago for encouraging emigration to Canada. The......

Finance Public And Private

Industrial Convalescence WITH all due respect to those journals which have endeavoured to prophesy a trade boom, based upon optimistic utterances by bank chairmen at the recent......

Canadian Settlements.

Some two years ago, however, and following upon a visit to Canada by the Governor of the company, the formation was announced of a concern to be known as Hudson's Bay Company......

Financial Notes

MONEY AND STOCKS. THE note of warning in this column last week with regard to -monetary conditions has been justified by events. Confident expectations of an early reduction in......

Government Obligations.

As a consequence of firmer money rates and also, no doubt, . as a result of the continued stream of new capital creations; a less confident tone has characterized the stock......

• De/3enhams Securities.- -

. Reference is made above to the continued stream of new capital creations, and during the coming week there will be one or two industrial issues of considerable size and......

Good, Insurance Results.

' Remarkably good figures are shown by the Sun Life Assur- ance Society for the past year. The net new assurances have jumped, in fact, from £8,979,070 in 1926 to £18,382,494.......

Answers To General Knowledge Questions 1. Pope....

The Earl of Rochester. Charles II. of England.-4. Twenty cities in Galilee. Hiram was not pleased. 1 Kings ix. 12.-5. John Wycliff, born near Richmond, Yorkshire, about 1324, is......

A Library List

BIOGRAPHY :--Charles Baudelaire : Letters to His Mother;, 1883-66. Translated by Arthur Symons. (John Rodker. 36s.)-Talks With Thomas Hardy at Max Gate. _Ity Vere Collins.......