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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1864, 22 September 1874, Page 1

Insurance.: „ D-i.'O-TJ '<! H' ;: BRI T'f S H FIRE AND'MARINE INSDRANOECpMPANyOJNKWZEALAND. " "Capitai,.''; ~\'[ \.,'^-'u l £Jo,<i^.-'[ This Popular and purely New Zealand Institution has the security? and influence of more than Nine Hundred Shareholders. Funds invested, and profits, retained in the Colony. • ■> ■'■■■■ *-' '•-■ ■■ ';■ r i' |i ■iLowest cunent rates. Prompt settlement; ~,• "'RICHARD HUDSON, (') ■ ',;.','i' Age n V Thames, : . TfICTORIA ' INSURANCE' COMPANY. MEE/iIABINE, LI&il&oA. Capitai, ..., ; - £2,200,000 Insurances on every description of propert effected,- at Lowest Kates., ,-,;,..■ ■ -.-, , •;• '"..;:;. D.'ul'&ELLioifi ;•;..■ agent for Thames District. i USTRALIAN' 'MUTUAL' PRoVidENS! Bl "• ' BOCIETY. .; '"'' ; \ FOB-MUTUAL LIFE" ASSURANCE,; to.NEV7 ZEALAND BRANCH:..";* Hhad Ofitob: .Wellington.. Pbbsent Amvll Ebvemte, £280,000. accumulated and ' invested ' funds ;.•;-' £r,330,000. • Persons Assuring with this Office share the whole profits, and a Bonus is declared every fifth year", , —- ' '' " V ;■* AaBHiVH. H. BRIGHT. Mbdioal BBraußH: JAMES. .KILqOUR, M.D. : " ; Business Notices.'; '•■ (! - . j . NOTICE of bemoyal; : . ■ t am ev.b ! : T l 'rr''!B.'NS;;;>y ,0,-. ..'.,.■. ''%kihfi : K'i;.,rii. Respectfully informs his. Customers, and.,the Public generally,' that he has REMOVED to Premises in ,POLLEN,-STREET, neariaraka Bridge (lately ;in the occupation..; of ~,Mr Veale) ; and hopes with the increased facilities for' carrying on- his business, .to secure; a continuance of their esteemed.patronage. • August 27th, 1874. •' SPECIAL NOTICE. • OWING to a Change in the Business I ; have to request' a SEITLEMiitfT of All ACCOUNTS;up to date; ~' . G. A. DOUGLAS,,. '' Shortlatid : Bakery. September,'l,lß74. ■ ;; '.' /. STONE] STONELSTONE! SUPERIOR to any yet opened in the province for Building purposes, and can be had.on the.shortest notice,in any quaatifcy, and any" size," Head St'oneß, ! Tombs,''and Monuments, Cut to any Design; Hearth Stones, Steps, Sills, Base-course, String-course, Cornish and Blocking, and 'Rusticated' ; i Also, Rubble. Stone for. Foundations,, at 5s peri'cube yard, by applying.to.William Thaokray, at the Hape Creek Quarry; r or, Augustus-street, Block 27, Shortla'nd. ~ ' '• ' '- FIEE! EIRE!! jFIBEIi! '"* "''•' -•■v.' BEGS to announce to his numerous 'friends and Customers that-he • : has oh Sal 6 a Large Stock off the ;best' , NEWCASTLE- COAL, -FIREWOOD. (ont and uncut), CHARCOAL, &0., - sit the lowest possible price. '~' ; - towh, opposite the New Goods Wharf, , and'atDaTy-streot,! ■■'■ Njß,—Grahamstown Weighbridge,',, !6d ger loidr " \ , 'fHE PATENT ," BURLEIGH/' vROCK 1 'DRILL aud'Alß COMPRESSOR, driven by STEAM or,COMPRESSED, AIR. The most approved machinery for mining, tunnelling; quarrying, shafting, .open 'cutting, submarine drilling, : and, in fact, every form of rock.work. -■>. "', - , ....... ~,-v 'It combines SIMPLICITY ; STRENGTH, LIGHTNESS, and COMPACTNESS in a remarkable degree,, and is convenient, easily handled, and NOT LIABLE TO GET ,ODT OF ORDER. v It drills holes from fto 5 inches indiameter at a depth not; exceeding 30 or 35 feet, at a rate of from 2 to' 6 inches per Minute, according totheuature of,the rock M - .• average progress in the Hbosac Tunnel by hand labour was 49. feet per month j by the «*Burleigli" Drill 150 1 : • ;; • - ' '^'■ ■ •"""•"•''• dol. c. Cost per foot by hand drills was -43 87 " ~; \\, . ■ and 'this includes the ''of .removing debris; laying tram', and cutting the water-Sara in bottom of the tunnel 1 . ' :;:,|: !; '' : '''} l ' s! - The G6LD : RUN .'DITCH MINING COMPANY,\ PLACER COUNTY, CAL,, creased their cutting in a 7 feet x 8 feet tunnel from '2 feet''6 inches per week by hand labour, . at a.cost of '60 dollars, to.lß feet per week by "Burleigh',' drills at a reduced cost at 50 percent.'- ,; '' i!i ; !, '< -it U? 1 ' Any further,information 1 as 'regards' Prices, Terraia,'ic.i 6aapplicatiotfto". :,ii ' . *_. ;■»-.(: ;■ : ...V'!r"., ALDE^bNandSONS.^- ; ..v : 22l,,E&atoth-street l ,S^dney, i a v'SOLE, AGENT 3. ifor,;all'.trie:'Australian including N. ; 8. .Wales, Yibtoria^Neff Zealand,, '„;..../.,.(,.;'■'.