15 FEBRUARY 1935, page 36

. The Pepper Crisis.

• It is some time since the City was so stirred as it has been during the past fortnight by the crisis in the Pepper Market. Thanks to the assistance afforded by the banks the......

Imperial Tobacco Results.

Following upon the announcement last month of an increase in the dividend on Imperial Tobacco shares from 20 per Cent. tax free to 22 per cent. tax free has come the Annual......

Gas Light And Cobb Meeting.

I referred on a previous occasion to the impression con- veyed by the speeches of the Chairman of the Gas Light and Coke Co. Of the energy displayed by `the directors and......

D. H. Evans.

The profits statement of D. H. Evans and Co. is also a good one, the net profit for the year ending January 31st last being 1112,491 against 1104,447. The dividend again is at......

Stores Prosperity.

Whether, as the result of politics or any other influence, there is to be a check to the trade revival remains to be seen, but further evidence of the greater activity In the......

Harrods Dividend Up.

The annual report of Harrods, Ltd., has yet to be issued, but the preliminary statement shows that during the year ending January 31st last the net profit was £708,900, as......

A Hundred Years Ago

"THE SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 14TH, 1835. The Morning Chronicle has supplied the following apt quotation from Swift on the necessity of choosing a Speaker whose opinions concur with......