16 JULY 1927, page 26

Financial Notes

QUIET MARKETS. THE fortnightly settlement on the Stock Exchange this week revealed nothing the way of any serious embarrassments arising out of the great shunp in British......

A " Protected " Industry.

For the most part, hoirever, I do not think that inves- tors will return to the English Railway Market with any sense of security until the industry is on what may be termed a......

Camouflage.

Notwithstanding the great increase in population, I believe that a comparison of present time-tables with those of the pre-War period would show the train services to be......

Finance—public And Private

Railways as Investments CONJECTURES - Concerning the interim dividends shortly to be announced by the __English railway companies have imparted a' little more activity of late......

Dividend Conjectures.

This is the more probable in view of the fact that if the traffic receipts for the past six months are compared, not, of course, with last year, but with 1925, the results are......

High Freight Rates. •

Only last week, on the occasion of the dinner given by the Standard Bank of South Africa to African farmers visiting -this countrY, some home truths were uttered concerning the......